68 stories by "Lisa Carroll"
Playwright, actress, singer and poet, Michaela Coel is a busy woman, I learn, as I manage to grab a few minutes with her on a two-show day: she's currently performing in Blurred Lines at the…
For her new show, Then (playing at The Vaults until 1Â March), Yve Blake turned to the internet for inspiration. Creating a website where people could anonymously leave messages about thei…
Chris Dunkley's intense and tragic two-hander Smallholding explores how, no matter where you find yourself, old habits always die hard. Indeed, when Jen (Matti Houghton) and Andy (Chris N…
Sizwe Banzi is Dead (currently playing at the Young Vic) makes an impact from the moment your ticket is torn at the door: sorting and segregating audiences according to race into roped-off s…
Following the unanimous success of Papatango Prize-winning play, Foxfinder, in 2011, playwright Dawn King returns with Ciphers, a jigsaw-puzzle-like tale of espionage and deception, currentl…
Sam Potter has had a long and varied career in theatre, most recently seeing her debut play, Mucky Kid, open at Theatre 503. She shares with A Younger Theatre her thoughts on playwriting, ca…
In a year which saw the term 'selfie' dubbed the Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year, a sleek and shiny new musical about an egotistical, materialistic psycho couldn’t be more fitting…
On Friday 22 November, the Royal Opera House opened its doors to over 1,000 young theatremakers for TheatreCraft 2013. The event is tailored to those who want to work in theatre but not as a…
Rarely is theatre such a treat for all the senses, making Gastronauts a unique (and rather delicious) show. Entering the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, exquisitely transformed by Lizzie Clachan's…
[Contains spoilers] It's always exciting seeing a brand new play, particularly when it's a playwright's first. The anticipation of whether it'll be entertaining, have a unique voice, …
From the moment the curtain goes up, Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense is a joy to watch, packed with hilarious gags, ridiculously tangled plots and blissful silliness from start to f…
Snapdragon Productions's latest offering, The Dead Wait, currently playing at the Park Theatre, transports us back to the racially divided and violent South Africa of the late 80s, offering …
An intimate and humorous two-hander, Mrs Lowry & Son, currently playing at Trafalgar Studios, delves into the unhappy and controlling relationship between lauded painter, L.S Lowry (char…
This year's winner of the Papatango new writing prize, Unscorched examines the complexities of working in child protection and whether it is ever really possible to stop our professional liv…
AYT catches up with actor/director Jamie Glover to talk Pinter, multi-tasking and making it up as you go along… I'm lucky to manage to catch Director Jamie Glover for a quick chat in b…
Ellen McDougall’s production of Henry the Fifth is for adults and children. AYT talks to her about Shakespeare, adaptation and risk-taking. When I speak to Ellen McDougall, she, the ca…
Sitting in the front row no more than a metre away from the actors, and transported to Zimbabwe in 2015, issues which might ordinarily feel worlds away become immediate and pressing in the F…
Dublin is a brilliant place to be at the best of times: in this pocket-sized capital city, one tenth the size of London, it's nearly impossible to walk from one end to the othe…
