Monday, 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.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:37AMSaturday, March 2, 2013
“What are you going to see tonight?” my friend asked. “Watt.” I said. “What? I was asking, what are you going to see tonight?” she said. “Watt. The …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:19AMThursday, February 28, 2013
With his play Bottleneck currently at Soho Theatre until 9th March, Luke Barnes tells us more about storytelling and what's exciting about theatre.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:38AMWednesday, February 6, 2013
My Romantic History is something different. Well, it’s a rom-com which isn’t different, but it is different to see a story told this purely onstage. We have Tom (David McCusker) …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:03AMWednesday, January 23, 2013
References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot is a production from Troupel Theatre Company, a company which traverses two continents, and this international influence is at the heart of this produ…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:51PMThursday, December 13, 2012
Full of advice and insider tips for directors, companies and performers, Veronica Aloess reports back from the final day of National Theatre Connections Directors Weekend.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:37AMMonday, December 3, 2012
Reporting back from the second day of NT Connections Directors' Weekend, Veronica Aloess speaks to Lenny Henry and Jim Cartwright.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:38AMVeronica Aloess speaks to Michael Grandage as his company's West End season opens, starring Sheridan Smith, David Walliams, Simon Russell Beale and Daniel Radcliffe.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:15AMTuesday, November 20, 2012
Veronica Aloess from AYT reports back from the National Theatre Connections Directors' Weekend, sharing some unmissable snippets of advice and behind the scenes action.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:18PMMonday, November 19, 2012
The Cat’s Mother is a complex show from the all-female Foxed Up Theatre Company about the intricacies of memory which, ironically, messes with your mind. The plot is a web of questions pro…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:18AMSaturday, November 10, 2012
Daddy Long Legs is an appropriate choice for the newly opened St James Theatre’s opening season. It might just be because it was press night, but the St James Theatre seems to return t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:17PMFriday, November 2, 2012
Site-specific promenade piece La Fille a la Mode currently plays at Theatre Royal Haymarket and investigates celebrity culture, theatrical history and the cult of the It girl.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:01PMTuesday, October 23, 2012
The Ones Who Kill Shooting Stars (TOWKSS) is a play which, reflecting its child-like characters, comes from a beautiful place but ends up somewhere confused. Henry (Gregory Finnegan) looks f…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:46AMSunday, October 21, 2012
I have a genuine fear of the dark, and being plunged into it whilst actors taunted the audience with song definitely made me scared: I was on the verge of screaming at the littlest movement …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:31PMMonday, October 15, 2012
Tape is one of those plays that has style. It takes a while to become immersed in the strange dialogue and eccentric characters, but once it finds its flow, Tape stands alone. Stephen Belber…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:25PMFriday, October 12, 2012
Staging Puccini’s legendary Tosca on a small stage in the back of a pub is one of those things you have to see to believe it’s possible. Big voices in a tiny space reverberating…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:57AMWednesday, October 3, 2012
Woyzeck’s lover icily tells him that no one touches her without permission, and Woyzeck retorts with surprise that his lover has developed character. However, character is exactly what…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:47AMFriday, September 21, 2012
Tonight I watched a man “try”. Thom Pain’s despairing monologue follows the transition from childhood into adulthood, and tonight I watched a man try to express the pain of tha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:07AMI’ve always believed that theatre should be about the audience experience, not a passive action of sitting back and watching. Thanks to A Younger Theatre and The Old Vic, I was able to cat…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:53AMThursday, September 13, 2012
They say that art reflects life, but I wouldn’t say Baggage does. Baggage follows the trials of online dating: the freaks and frauds, and general disappointments made possible by the so-ca…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:38PMSunday, September 9, 2012
It’s the 40th anniversary of Tom Stoppard’s musical comedy drama, Jumpers. Stoppard’s work is often admired for its intelligence and looking back at this play about philosophy and acro…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:35AMMonday, August 27, 2012
Killing Time is one of those plays which is bound to succeed because of its unique situation, and indeed Andrew Edwards’ play is so far and yet reverberates so near to any audience mem…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:36AMSmall Narration is a performance and video art show in the form of a lecture as part of Summerhall’s Polska season. Wotjek Ziemilski’s solo show is a personal exploration of Ziem…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:20AMSaturday, August 25, 2012
The fringe has been a very ghostly affair for HookHitch Theatre. Veronica Aloess finds out more about this exciting company.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:51AMFriday, August 24, 2012
Nights at the Circus, adapted from Angela Carter’s novel by Sarah-Jane Moloney and director Steve Green, is – like Fourth Monkey’s original script for The Elephant Man R…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:06PMVeronica Aloess profiles the work of Organised Crime theatre company, currently at the fringe with Simon Stephens' Pornography.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:10PMThursday, August 23, 2012
Therapy is a very odd little musical from No Shoes Theatre; from an established creative team, I can only wonder how this came to be. The first and foremost issue with a musical is probably …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:03AMWednesday, August 22, 2012
The Turn of the Screw is HookHitch’s debut production, and what a confident debut it is. Benjamin Henson’s adaptation of Henry James’ haunting novel is compressed and claus…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:27PMTuesday, August 21, 2012
Flâneurs isn’t a so much a show as a reaction. Months ago, Jenna Watt’s friend Jeremy was attacked. This piece of performance art aims to reverse the bystander effect, because t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:39PMSunday, August 19, 2012
Irreconcilable Differences is an ambitious play: a husband and wife (not very happily married at all) have been in a car accident, and by the end of the play, it will be up to the audience t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:17PMDefinition of misanthropy: hatred of humankind. Sam Siggs’ play isn’t quite that fervently hateful, but rather considers what lies behind our treatment of other human beings. Thi…
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