10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
It’s a new twist on the meaning of ‘dinner theatre’. It’s not so much that you are sat back, relaxed and enjoying a delicious three course meal while watching the…
As he takes on a run of Chekhov shorts – performed by opera singers-turned-actors – Artistic Director of Euphonia Studio, Alisdair Kitchen, muses on why acting in opera has su…
The story of Babe, the Sheep-Pig is undoubtedly appealable to people of all ages, genders and walks of life. Whether you spent your childhood reading the books, or watching the film, Babe is…
It's not often that a show will tell you, within its script, that you'll be giving it a good review – but then Thebes Land is no ordinary play. Daniel Goldman's adaptation of Sergio Bl…
The era of silent cinema will seem to many as remote as the last days of the Roman Empire. It is difficult, therefore, to imagine the revolution the "talkies" would have sparked in the Holly…
Lurking sheets of ashes cover the stage, drifting by its disturbers. The warn down branches of isolated trees have been stripped and burnt. We are here to bear witness to director David Bös…
Ahead of their last tour date, Alister Lownie looks at the themes of power and the politically complex commentary on England's working men tackled in Two Destination Language's Manpower. Men…
'You gotta fight, for the right, to party!' As an answer to the polished West-End jukebox musical, this show is every inch the opposite. The Beastie Boys began as a hardcore punk band and th…
'To die will be an awfully big adventure!' roars Peter Pan (Paul Hilton), washed atop Marooner's Rock in Mermaid's Lagoon, his grim fate now all but sealed by the evil Captain Hook (Anna Fra…
An Act of Kindness, written by Helena Westerman, is a two-hander with Westerman herself playing 22-year-old bohemian free-spirit Leila, and Robert Hayes as businessman and alpha male Martin.…
"Does anyone want to come and sit on the stage?" Normally such a question from a stage manager would fill me with dread but the opportunity to pose as a Westminster MP on stage in James Grah…
Good genre parody is harder to get right than it looks. It has to have an intimate familiarity with (and more often than not, palpable affection for) its source conventions, it has to know e…
With three productions in the last week asking me about national identity, we're now officially in the post-Brexit era of storytelling. Frankly it's a conversation worth having at any time, …
With Christmas just around the corner, many of the audience at the Bridge House Theatre may be able to empathise with protagonist Carole's disdain for the commercialism of the season. "It st…
On paper this seems like it could be the most exciting show in the world. Immersive theatre with a thrilling contemporary circus performance. In my mind, I imagined standing under a trapeze …
As ballet and dance becomes ever globalised and appears to be merging ever-closer, it is worth remembering that the National Ballet of China has always embodied this principle, originally fo…
The festive season is upon us and award winning comedy trio, The Sleeping Trees return to Theatre 503 for their third pantomime, Scrooge And The Seven Dwarves. This time they tell the tale o…
Cyphers' production of The Three Musketeers sets itself the ambitious task of reducing the whole of Alexander Dumas' dense and action-driven story into a comedy stage production, using just …
They say write what you know, so let's hope James Bridie was delving into some fiction when he wrote Dr Angelus. Bridie, a GP turned playwright, and without who we wouldn't have a little thi…
The tale of Ebenezer Scrooge is one of which most people are accustomed to, perhaps from reading the book, or having watched many the film adaption, which quite possibly had the Muppets in. …
Ilé la WÃ translates to 'We Are Home.' Sometimes we all need some perspective – for all we'd like to complain about 2016, the unimaginable horrors of those suffering from displacem…
As an army of minute children descend down the aisle towards a Christmas coated stage and form a freakish, yet excitable mosh pit, it can only mean one damn thing, The Snowman is back …
The stage is set with an unlikely assortment of objects. A utilitarian platform, instruments, ladders, wiring and microphones conjure thoughts of a warehouse. It is as if the backstage of th…
There's a moment in After October, a restaging of a 1936 Rodney Ackland play, that made the critics in the audience collectively draw breath. "By what right" goes Clive's (Adam Buchanan) adm…
The mistakes of an older generation impacting the young. A group arrival to a mysterious isle. Flitters of much needed redemptive romance. There could not be a more relevant time for directo…
