Thursday, November 10, 2016
Mule is a fast-paced two-hander inspired by the story of the Peru Two, two British girls convicted of attempting to smuggle cocaine into Peru in 2013. Writer and Director Kat Woods’ retell…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:36PMMonday, September 5, 2016
Unfaithful written by playwright Owen McAfferty follows two couples. Tom (Sean Campion) and Joan (Niamh Cusack) are middle-aged, conservative and wondering if they let life pass them by. An…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:49PMTuesday, November 3, 2015
Pretty Ugly started as YouTube experiment, questioning the growing trend of young girls posting videos asking the online community to rate them based on their looks. In her show, Louise Orwi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:33PMSunday, July 26, 2015
Cartography is a story about Sarah, a girl who loves maps (although she never intends to go travelling), who has her eyes opened and eventually her heart broken by John, a budding explorer. …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:52AMFriday, June 26, 2015
Image: Phil Crow Lincoln Castle is home to one of four surviving copies of the Magna Carta, a document which is generally recognised as the foundation of constitutional democracy and the sou…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:45AMTuesday, October 7, 2014
Seven years on from the 7/7 bombings, Damien Tracey has written Warde Street, a play which considers the lasting effects of the tragedy on politics, religion and relationships. Unfortunately…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:37PMMonday, October 6, 2014
Epoch: 1950 takes the incredibly cool spaces at The Vaults and transports the audience back to the 1950s. This unique theatre experience offers three short plays from three different compan…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:24PMFriday, October 3, 2014
Veronica Aloess interviews Susanna Narvaez and Patrick Maubert about a new site-specific productions around Blackfriars in London. Another Day is a play rooted in its setting – playwrights…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:55AMWednesday, September 24, 2014
First off, Paines Plough and Northern Stage’s new space, the Roundabout Auditorium, is a thing of beauty. Essentially, this ‘flat pack’ theatre can be packed onto the back of a lorry t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:03PMMonday, September 15, 2014
First thing’s first: Verdi’s opera Otello holds up a mirror to Shakespeare’s text, a distilled reflection of the action and not the Bard’s brilliant writing. Nonetheless, Verdi lets …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:51PMMonday, July 7, 2014
I can hear this production of Julius Caesar before I can see it. As I walk up to the Globe it rings with music, and inside actors are already milling about, shouting and singing, echoing wha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:29AMTuesday, June 24, 2014
Do you remember the first time you went to the Globe? Did you feel like you were stepping back in time? What I remember is some kids rapping about how I needed to switch off my phone… …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:57AMAdler & Gibb is an interesting one. True to playwright (and director) Tim Crouch’s style, he plays with the theatrical form in innovative ways you probably haven’t seen the likes of …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:30AMFor 7th Magpies Theatre Company, “the play is always the point of departure.” Dramaturg Ash Rowbin explains how it will be devising around Shakespeare’s original text Julius Caesar,�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:27AMThursday, June 5, 2014
When I was invited to a double bill of plays, I expected two short one acts. Oh no. Fourth Monkey’s Shizaru Season at Jackson’s Lane is essentially the showcase for their two-year actor …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:16PMFriday, May 2, 2014
Titus Andronicus is one of my favourite works of Shakespeare. The reason why can be encapsulated in this fact: apparently, five people fainted watching the original play. Titus Andronicus…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:29PMThursday, February 13, 2014
Henry V is performed by final year students at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, yet it’s safe to say that the quality rivals that of a professional production. It’s a brave play …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:40PMTuesday, February 4, 2014
…or, as the show’s performer and writer Michelle Roche prefers to say, with eight mad old people. This statement is a reflection of the problem of perspective within this show; the p…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:37PMFriday, January 31, 2014
After almost a year together, MGC Futures has come a long way. If you remember that this company was first and foremost formed in order to educate young people in the jobs behind the scenes.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMonday, November 11, 2013
There’s something of a fad at the Soho Theatre Upstairs for producing bitesize plays: hour long shows, usually monologues or duologues, which provide a concentrated perspective on the worl…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:25AMSaturday, November 9, 2013
Blanche McIntyre is the director behind Ciphers, a play by rising talent Dawn King, and a co-production with the esteemed companies Out of Joint, Bush Theatre and Exeter Northcott Theatre. C…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:49AMFriday, October 4, 2013
The Soho Downstairs is the best place for a gig like this: with a bar that stays open throughout the show, the laughs keep flowing and the intimate room feels so packed that it’s still got…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:51PMTuesday, October 1, 2013
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a play by Bertolt Brecht that went down a storm as part of the Chichester Festival and as a result has transferred to the West End. It’s not your usual …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:10PMFriday, September 20, 2013
Ché Walker’s new play The Lightning Child is a contemporary response to Euripides’s The Bacchae. You’ve got to be brave to essentially translate an Ancient Greek play into everyday l…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:18AMWednesday, July 17, 2013
When you step into Temple Studios it takes a while for your eyes to adjust to the dark, and as you wait for an actor to jump out as you peer around corners, it feels more like you’ve s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:01PMSaturday, June 1, 2013
The latest show at the National Theatre Shed is Mission Drift, a pioneering journey across the USA in search of the character of American capitalism. Veronica Aloess finds out more.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:00AMSunday, May 19, 2013
Many people aren’t aware that there’s more than one musical adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s novel The Phantom of the Opera. Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit’s musical Phantom was composed…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:49AMMonday, April 15, 2013
After falling in love with Fourth Monkey Theatre Company at the Edinburgh Fringe last year, where they fearlessly produced six successful shows, I was worried that their latest show Project …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:31PMVeronica Aloess interviews the stars of Strictly Come Dancing on their hit new dance show, Burn the Floor, in London's West End.The post Strictly burning the floor with Robin Windsor and Kri…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:00AMMonday, April 8, 2013
What came first, the story or the site? Veronica Aloess explores this question with the help of Fourth Monkey Theatre Company.The post Site-specific or site-responsive? Fourth Monkey’s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:00AMMonday, March 4, 2013
Veronica Aloess catches up with the Lincoln Young Company, performing I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here as part of Connections 2013.
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