Friday, August 8, 2014
Set in the deep south of Alabama, the year is 1847: it’s a time of masters and slaves, racial inequality is rife and people are bought and sold on the basis of the colour of their skin. De…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:46PMFriday, July 25, 2014
It’s the end of the world and the only known survivors are three colleagues on their way to a conference and a sixteen-year-old girl. Marooned on an island, we find Marie (Elizabeth Berrin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:37PMSunday, July 20, 2014
In 1961, theatre director Joan Littlewood was frustrated by the limitations conventional theatres imposed on the way in which art could be depicted. Rebelling against the notion that creativ…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:21AMMonday, July 14, 2014
Imagine performing your end-of-year play on the prestigious Olivier stage at the National Theatre. As part of the Connections festival, over the past six days ten schools and youth groups ha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:38AMFriday, July 11, 2014
Contrary to what the title of her one woman show suggests Pippa Winslow is so much more than ‘just a housewife’. This sassy Californian with a mischievous glint in her eye, who toure…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:58AMMonday, June 30, 2014
US-born singer Ray Shell is perhaps best known in the world of musical theatre for creating the roll of Rusty, the main protagonist in the original production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s roll…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:52PMMonday, June 23, 2014
There aren’t many musicals that have an all-singing, all-dancing, carnivorous plant with an unquenchable thirst for human blood as one of its central characters. Consequently I have a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:14PMDuring her post-show talk, South African choreographer Dada Masilo commented “I like ballet, just not all the nonsense”. Masilo’s interpretation of the classic Swan Lake is a refreshin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:57AMMonday, June 16, 2014
Jeeto Gill has spent her life working her fingers to the bone and making countless sacrifices for her two children. Widowed and now in her sixties, she is looking forward to returning to her…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:56PMMonday, June 9, 2014
At just 19-years-old Polly Stenham penned the award-winning gritty family drama That Face, which resulted in her being the toast of the Royal Court. Now, eight years on, Stenham’s latest o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:30PMSaturday, May 10, 2014
In 1985 playwright, wordsmith and all-round Victorian dandy Oscar Wilde was sentenced to a two year stint in Reading Jail for being a homosexual – then considered a crime under the Gro…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:30AMMonday, April 28, 2014
“A beautiful city glitters during the day, but at night the rats emerge.” A former pillar of society is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a young boy from a di…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:57PMSunday, April 13, 2014
The musical Shellshock opens with a talkative young girl called Emily (Ana Martin) fit to burst with excitement at the prospect of her father, a soldier, returning from the front-line in Dho…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:14PMTuesday, April 8, 2014
Somewhat overshadowed by the more seminal works in the cannon, Finian’s Rainbow is a little-known musical first written and performed in 1947. In the fictional American state of Missituck…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:03AMSunday, April 6, 2014
A chance encounter wherein a young Czech girl asks an dejected Irish busker to fix her broken hoover seems like an unlikely starting point for a love story, let alone a musical. Surprisingl…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:50PMMonday, March 31, 2014
Compagnie La Meute is a group of six acrobats premièring their work for the first time in the UK as part of the Roundhouse’s Circus Fest. Combining humour, music and plenty of gasp-worth…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:11PMWednesday, March 26, 2014
I only have to hear the phrase “lashings of ginger beer” and I am instantly transported back to a childhood spent reading Enid Blyton’s ‘The Famous Five’ stories. W…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:20PMMonday, March 10, 2014
Chris Vervain Theatre’s production of Euripides’ Women of Troy paid homage to the Ancient Greek tradition of theatre performed in masks. As it was my first time seeing a piece that used …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:30AMSunday, February 23, 2014
With flashing strobe lights, well-known tunes thumping and a cast of supremely talented street dancers, hip-hop dance company Blaze certainly know how to throw a party. The diverse group of …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:43PMMonday, February 17, 2014
This spring, Southwark Playhouse’s studio theatre plays host to the UK première of Tracy Letts’s play Superior Donuts. Dishevelled hippy Arthur Przybyszewski’s doughnut shop is s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:09PMThe Love Project is the product of a series of interviews with people from a wide variety of age brackets and pockets of society, quizzed on their attitudes towards love. The small cast of f…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:35PMFriday, February 7, 2014
The Vault Festival allowed me to fulfil my long held fantasy of wanting to disappear down a rabbit hole to escape from the bustling metropolis. For six weeks the vaults tucked away beneath W…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:00AMSunday, January 26, 2014
Following his box office success with the Bond film Skyfall and his recent stage adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sam Mendes really is the director with the Midas touch. Natu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:18PMSaturday, January 18, 2014
Don Gil of the Green Breeches is one of three plays that makes up the Arcola Theatre’s Spanish Golden Age season. The piece is rife with characters donning multiple disguises, repeated ca…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:30PMWednesday, January 15, 2014
The Sherman brothers provided the soundtrack to much of my childhood. Songwriting duo Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman penned the scores for Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book and Chitty …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:04PMSunday, January 12, 2014
Theatre Delicatessen is currently in residence at the former BBC studios – a disused building in Marylebone that many people would walk past without even a second glance. However, Amer…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:48AMWednesday, January 8, 2014
On his ninth birthday, Gwyn Griffiths is given a wooden box by his whimsical grandmother Nain and told he must use the contents of the box to discover if he has inherited his ancestor’s gi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:41AMSunday, December 22, 2013
Georges Bizet’s Carmen is a much-loved and highly emotive tale whose score is so recognisable that it transcends the opera itself, with popular arias such as ‘Habanera’ and the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:09PMSunday, December 15, 2013
A set that falls down, countless missed cues, and an accident-prone cast. You would be forgiven for thinking that these calamities were merely symptomatic of staging a press night on Friday …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:07PMTuesday, December 10, 2013
The very idea of trying to create an original Christmas story seems like an impossibility: surely every festive trope and possible cliché has been exhausted by now. Or so I thought, until I…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:33PMTuesday, December 3, 2013
A cow sold at market, some magic beans and a giant beanstalk. You don’t have to be a detective to deduce that the Lyric Hammersmith’s pantomime offering this year is Jack and the Beansta…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:48AM 
