325 stories by "Jake Orr"
In Neil LaBute’s newest play, Reasons To Be Pretty at The Almeida Theatre, two couples push what it is to be in a relationship and to look at each other’s ‘beauty’. W…
Last night, as part of OMA / Progress and The Barbican Centre exhibition, I attended a panel discussion relating to architecture, audience and the arts called Designing for the Next Gener…
Anyone who follows me on Twitter will know that I am constantly saying “‘why isn’t theatre doing this?”‘,”‘when are we going to see some digital inn…
A Younger Theatre’s Editor, Jake, recently sat on a panel for Farnham Maltings’Â No Strings Attached funding bursaries. The scheme is designed to be completely open to ideas re…
In Federico Garcia Lorca’s Yerma, a desperate wife pleads with her husband, her community and her body to deliver the baby she so rightly deserves. Women of the community are wedded, b…
Matthew Bourne's The Nutcracker is not a traditional version of this classic Christmas ballet. A number of changes have been made to the original plot, many of which add a new perspective to…
Ethnic identity, interwar tensions and the fragility of human relationships are amongst the topics Edson Burton concerns himself with in Raising Kamila. Yet whilst these themes intertwine fo…
Mike Bartlett’s new play 13Â is a piece about belief and the shaping of leaders. It looks at the connections that we, within society, have between us, but also the impact of these co…
What happens when you take 50 actors, directors, writers and producers and give them 24 hours to put on a play in front of 1,000 audience members at The Old Vic Theatre? Well, you’re a…
We love a bit of puppetry, which is why we’re super excited about SUSPENSE, London’s Puppetry Festival which is back from 29th October. The first SUSPENSE took place in 2009 and …
Sam Yates's very fine revival of Irish Protestant playwright St John Ervine's 1911 'Belfast tragedy' Mixed Marriage (the first London revival in 90 years), set in pre-partisan Ireland, arriv…
When we think of prominent African-American human rights and civil rights movement leaders, we are drawn to the powerful and moving speeches of Martin Luther King. We are less drawn to, whil…
The performer’s body as a tool like a musical instrument. This is the focus of Awake Project’s international ensemble piece, Awake. Blending physical strength, vocal agility, emo…
Living in the UK, we forget how comfortably we have been brought up. This island, whilst small, has survived surrounded by water under the same occupancy for hundreds of years, and aside fro…
Our friends at the Lyric Hammersmith are offering AYT readers the chance to win 2 tickets to Edward Bond’s Saved at the Lyric Hammersmith on Saturday 9th October. It’s the first …
Football and Theatre? Seems like a strange mix if you ask us, but Fit and Proper People, a new play by Georgia Fitch at the Soho Theatre in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company …
Opera can be a difficult affair to open your heart and mind to, however there are numerous organisations and companies which are bridging the gaps between conventional opera and wary new ope…
The weekend offers me, like most people, a chance to relax and enjoy my own time in my own surroundings. Having recently acquired an iPad, I’ve found myself falling into a little tradi…
Harold Pinter, perhaps best known for his pauses, dialogues within contained rooms and tormented characters, is perhaps less known for some of his one-act plays such as One For The Road a…
There is a transcendant quality to Kneehigh Theatre’s newest creation by Joint-Artistic Director Emma Rice in The Wild Bride at the Lyric Theatre. It feels both a step back to the rust…
Dear GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN, This is a response to your show External which is a response to the show Internal by Ontroerend Goed. It would be fair to state that this response to your response…
The National Theatre has announced its Autumn/Winter season of shows, and whilst in true NT fashion there are the usual star-studded performances (Lenny Henry and Simon Russel Beale) and top…
The work of dANTE OR dIE, under the direction of Daphna Attias and Terry O’Donovan, sees its latest explorative dance-theatre piece taking over a host of buildings across the capital t…
As the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks steadily approaches, tributes to this remarkable and devastating moment are beginning to take place, and naturally theatres are programmin…
It's rare that I return to see the same show more than once unless it is a West End musical and only to please some family member in town. Rarely am I so enthralled that I will quite happily…
