Monday, January 10, 2022
Despite announcing a break back in September, A Younger Theatre still has plans to come back stronger than ever. Here’s an update from Managing Director Sam. Sometimes I still feel like I�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:06AMWednesday, September 1, 2021
As AYT closes its doors – perhaps temporarily, perhaps permanently – Managing Director, Sam talks about the reasons why, his hopes for the future and how the company can’t return unles…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:42AMTuesday, March 9, 2021
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SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:03AMSunday, June 14, 2020
A Younger Theatre has always been a platform for those that often feel unheard and invisible but how much are we doing to support Black artists? Not enough, writes Managing Director, Sam. I�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:54AMFriday, February 21, 2020
It’s so easy to be ‘busy’ and to ignore our loved ones but what if something happens to them? Samuel Sims talks about the importance of support networks in the world of the creative. I…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:36PMThursday, January 16, 2020
Anyone else feel angry/ puzzled/ not that surprised about the recent Oscar and Bafta nominations? Samuel Sims is feeling all sorts of emotion. Here, he discusses the racist, misogynistic his…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:03PMSaturday, October 26, 2019
Review: Lungs, The Old Vic4.0Overall ScoreReader Rating 0 VotesHere’s something a little bit different. Instead of the conventional approach of one person reviewing a show, Managing Editor…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:06AMFriday, October 18, 2019
That front-of-house workers are not mindless robots there to serve every whim of patrons is hopefully becoming more apparent to those who
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMFriday, January 25, 2019
Review: When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, The National Theatre2.0starsBefore the lights descended tonight, a ton of people excitedly looked the auditorium up and down as if ho…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:54AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
Half Breed is for anyone that has ever felt ‘other’. It’s exhausting, breakneck and revitalising; a show and a performer
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SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:54AMSaturday, April 14, 2018
A production almost completely dominated by men (the only woman, Vanessa Redgrave makes a brief if emotionally charged appearance near the end), The Inheritance could easily have become a na…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:00AMWednesday, January 31, 2018
Should we feel bad for occasionally preferring to exist in the space called cyber? Is it so awful to be able to communicate more coherently – more confidently through a screen than in …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:30AMWednesday, January 17, 2018
With many jukebox musicals that have plonked themselves noisily in London’s theatreland, it’s usually helpful and ultimately more enjoyable to be familiar with the catalogue of work. Tak…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:14AMMonday, November 20, 2017
What does it take to be a true activist? Are we all, as a collective capable of making real difference or is it just too easy to be apathetic, to feign interest and sit behind a computer scr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:48PMTuesday, November 7, 2017
The Exorcist’s origins don’t necessarily rely on the faith of huge numbers, nor does it really matter. Based on a ‘real life’ case (that old chestnut) about a boy possessed and subse…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:12AMSunday, October 29, 2017
“Our bodies, our minds, our power” the ultimate message in this production of Jekyll and Hyde. Influenced by such women as Emmeline Pankhurst, Florence Nightingale and Josephine Butler;�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:33AMSaturday, July 15, 2017
How the bloody hell have veganism and cannibalism found themselves in the same piece of theatre? Mumburger’s extraordinarily odd subject matter is the very thing many, myself included, …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:48AMMonday, July 3, 2017
Mighty Atoms could very well be a metaphor for Hull itself. The play, the final part in a trilogy held at Hull Truck as part of its Roots and Routes season, is heavily influenced by box…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:06AMThursday, June 1, 2017
Charlotte Josephine meets me at Old Street station, before taking us to a nearby café that has the murmur of Beyonce over our heads. The writer and performer looks slightly dazed and expl…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:48PMMonday, May 15, 2017
Who knew Harry Potter had such vocal, enthusiastic fans? A unanimous me? Fair enough. J.K Rowling’s phenomenally successful series turns 20 this year and with repeat visits and continued e…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:48AMRoom tells the story of Ma and her little boy Jack as they go about their daily lives within the confines of a small, square room. They play, exercise, read, and sometimes watch television. …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:42AMThursday, May 11, 2017
History, time and legacy all play a prevalent role in this revival of Tony Kushner’s epic Angels in America. It looks at the right-wing politics that dominated the US in the 1980s and how…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12PMTuesday, May 9, 2017
There’s something fantastically refreshing about a hugely successful writer getting their kids to do (some of) the editing of their latest book, but then, this is no ordinary, hugely succe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:42AMSaturday, March 11, 2017
Central to this twice adapted story of The Diary of a Teenage Girl is a phenomenal performance from Rona Morison, who manages to perfectly capture the irritating whininess of a 15-year-old w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:36AMFriday, February 24, 2017
You’d think that a highly visual, shocking depiction of ‘ultra-violence’ would not generate quite as many huge belly laughs as Action To The Word’s production of A Clockwork Orange d…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:36PMMonday, February 13, 2017
Growing up, I never felt particularly proud to be from Hull. In fact, the absolute opposite. If enquiries were made about my origins, I’d launch into a frenzied, pattie buttie-wielding…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:36AMMonday, January 30, 2017
“We still need to get into position where you can go to the chemist, say you’re having a panic attack, ask if they mind you meditating for a bit and no one will bat an eyelid, ju…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:54AMFriday, December 23, 2016
Kiki’s Delivery Service is perhaps one of award winning Studio Ghibli’s most beloved films. Released in 1989 it was later dubbed in English and featured actress Kirsten Dunst in …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:33AMThursday, December 22, 2016
What many are likely expecting with the UK stage premiere of Dreamgirls is something vaguely similar to Bill Condon’s 2006 film, starring Beyonce Knowles and an Oscar winning Jennifer Huds…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:33AMWednesday, November 30, 2016
As an army of minute children descend down the aisle towards a Christmas coated stage and form a freakish, yet excitable mosh pit, it can only mean one damn thing, The Snowman is back in t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:18AMSaturday, October 15, 2016
Theresa Ikoko is on a roll. She’s taken a quick lunch break from her day job helping to reduce youth crime in London and we’re having a natter about her play Girls, currently playing …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:14AM 
