325 stories by "Jake Orr"
As Simon Holton noted in his review of the Face to Face Festival at Lost Theatre earlier this week, the notion of performing a piece of theatre on your own is a daunting task. Solo perfor…
Selected for your viewing pleasures are some of the top theatre videos from June and July. We’ve tried to get a mixture of videos for you to watch, and, conscious that not everyone has…
A Younger Theatre is delighted to announce the four winners of the Edinburgh Young Critics Scheme. Supported by IdeasTap, the Edinburgh Young Critics Scheme gives the opportunity for young r…
When a playwright chooses to direct his own work it’s always a risk " but with Real Circumstances’s production of Our Share of Tomorrow at Theatre 503 in Battersea, to say …
Ahead of the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival A Younger Theatre’s resident photographer Richard Lakos attended the rehearsals of Tangled Feet’s One Million. “…
Here at A Younger Theatre we do our best to give opportunities for young people to experience culture for the first time. Building on our work with English National Opera last year, AYT and …
Where can you find the best places to buy theatre books from? What are the best theatre bookshops in London? Well, look no further. We’re completely addicted to theatre at A Younger Th…
Teenagers are strange creatures. The transitional phase from child to adult, where the body changes and chemicals are being thrown around to the point of nausea. Where appearance matters and…
Theatre tickets are expensive so we’ve drawn up a guide on how to get cheap theatre tickets in London. Whether you’re looking for discounted ticket outlets, schemes for young peo…
Rikki Beadle-Blair’s Gutted at Theatre Royal, Stratford East doesn’t do things by halves. Covering (spoiler alert) sexual abuse, child abuse, incest, transphobia, violence, fa…
I’ve often considered theatre to be a looking glass for an audience to inspect and understand the fabrics that make up the world they inhabit outside of the auditorium. Playwrights in …
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the new musical of Roald Dahl’s novel is heading to Theatre Royal, Dury Lane this month. Directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes with a bo…
Rounding up the best theatre videos from a month isn’t always easy. Trailers are top of the marketing departments must have for productions and their venues which means there are a lot…
In the heart of Leicester Square, go underground to the not-so-conventional Leicester Square Theatre. Make your way into the living room set, which also feels like a traditional pub, find yo…
In The Idiot Dostoyevsky imagines what would happen if a Russian Christ, a perfectly good man, were to enter the superficial world of Russian high society with its love affairs, and obsessio…
“It is the start of a journey that [Emma] Rice hasn't quite finished yet”, I speculated after seeing Kneehigh Theatre’s The Wild Bride some two years ago. Rice, joint Ar…
As a child, my backyard was 18 holes of a golf course, as my parents ran the accompanying bar and restaurant. In the long summer months I’d find myself tangled in the reeds by the p…
The relationship between television and theatre has always been an intimate and challenging affair. So close are the two mediums, sharing audiences and industry professionals, that it is eas…
Rational madness. What is it and why should we care? Alirio Zavarce’s performance, The Book of Loco Zavarce, attempts to outline his ideas on rational madness and why we should take…
It’s not often you leave a theatre show feeling that what you’ve seen has actually had an impact on you. Too often theatre seems to rebound off the armour that I’ve built f…
It’s difficult to know where to begin with Cat Jones’s Glory Dazed as it continues its tour from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival via the Adelaide Fringe Festival before returning t…
Fringe Festivals always have an ability to turn unexpected places into performance spaces, often barely disguising their former lives. In the case of the Urban Spaceman Vintage, a retro clot…
Returning from the sell-out and award-winning success at the 2006 Adelaide Fringe, Ben Woolf’s comic and compelling play Angry Young Man finds its home once again at the Holden Street …
There are two ways to look at Rowena Hutson’s The Unstoppable, Unsung Story of Shaky M playing at the Adelaide Fringe Festival. The first, and this is how I experienced the piec…
How do we see the beauty of someone? Does it rest on the surface or lie hidden within? Is it caught from the side of your eye, or at a certain time of day? Tahil Corin’s play One for t…
