10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
We walk through the door, take our seats and look out on a bare stage. We are here to see a show, and Donny is determined to give us one. This teenage magician's desire is to be famous; to f…
This week sees three days of ambitious and provocative work from young talent as Chrysalis festival runs in Edinburgh. Producer Fiona McCurdy explains why, against a background of cuts and l…
The Worst Was This tells the story of three sisters running a tavern in an imagined post-apocalyptic universe in which Will Shakespeare (Ben Clifford) is a struggling young playwright who ca…
90s Brixton. Raves. Dub Music. Beer. Love. A heady cocktail of swirling colours, thumping music and flirtatious sprees. Or not quite. Harry MacKrill's production of Paul Boakye's Boy wit…
Having not done An Inspector Calls for GCSE, I was pretty excited to see this West-End production. To summarise the plot: Inspector Goole arrives unannounced at the Birling home, announcing …
Charles Hamilton Sorley died in the Battle of Loos in 1915 during the First World War. He was just 20 years old. Now, over a hundred years after his death, Neil McPherson has written It Is E…
Ella Marchment, Artistic Director of Helios Collective, challenges AYT readers to re-assess the way they look at opera. "A Younger Theatre"…. avant-garde, culturally exhilarating, and …
A nation strives and struggles to find a new identity and place in the world. Hundreds of young people unite to celebrate 60 years of the world's first youth theatre and our members suffer r…
Can a family be left to self-govern their own laws? If acts of brutality are inflicted upon family members by family members, should the family retain control of the consequences? Two couple…
It's not as though gender hasn't been explored in theatre. That doesn't mean we should stop – the problems haven't stopped – but it does mean finding a creative way to put your c…
It's no surprise that Orca, as Matt Grinter's first full length play, has already been awarded the 2016 New Writing Prize by Papatango. It's such a brilliant piece to be paired with a venue …
So I'm guessing we could all do with a laugh around now? From Bowie to Brexit, to the complete and utter lunacy of the U.S. Election, 2016 has thrown little to chuckle about our way. You'll …
Despite its title, Quint-Essential is not a traditional set of ballet performances " the New English Ballet Theatre seeks to bring upcoming dancers and choreographers together and explore th…
Lasting through six rounds of plot in The Royale is far from being too much of a match. A packed audience squeezes in to The Tabernacle, a grade III listed former church which only enhances …
Rosana Cade's performance piece, Walking: Holding, is designed for one audience member to make their way through a city as they hold hands with strangers. It is an explosion. It is a whisper…
Glitter Punch is not your average teen romantic drama, it offers an entirely different spin with an unexpected twist. "Yeah, I've heard that one before…", I hear you say, but this piece is…
It is not every day that an audience member enters the world's oldest surviving music hall and is confronted with staging adorned with aggressive graffiti. This juxtaposition of antiquated s…
Given the election's outcome, this is perhaps the most difficult review I've ever had to write. Trumpageddon, written and performed by Simon Jay, is intended as political satire. Little did …
Mule is a fast-paced two-hander inspired by the story of the Peru Two, two British girls convicted of attempting to smuggle cocaine into Peru in 2013. Writer and Director Kat Woods' retellin…
Cincinnatus is meant to be a darkly comedic portrayal of a man in prison for an unknown crime. He’s tormented by the indifference he receives from everyone else be they the prison̵…
In Your Face Theatre's returning production of Trainspotting is first and foremost a show, rather than a piece of theatre. Having moved into a bigger venue at The Vaults on its return to Lon…
Win a pair of tickets to see Great Expectations by Attic Theatre at Merton Arts Space Great Expectations | 30 Nov – 18 Dec 2016 | Merton Arts Space Attic Theatre Company̵…
Built in just seven weeks , Kings Cross Theatre provides an original theatre venue for Bowie's last body of work. Lazurus originally played on Broadway last December, and has made its way…
John Schlesinger's production of Les Contes D'Hoffmann has achieved 173 performances at the Royal Opera House alone, even before counting this final revival by Daniel Dooner. The story of di…
Set in the top of a lighthouse in an unfamiliar past or future dystopia, The Acedian Pirates explores the morality and logic of war through the story of a failing occupation. This play knits…
