10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
If ever there was a play which adhered to the dictum "show not tell", it is Amadeus, the story of the patron saint of mediocrities, Antonio Salieri, and his battle with God over the unjust d…
“In this place every child is destined to be a soldier,” the front of the programme reads. Going into a show about war you would assume that there will be some violence, some des…
As the audience enter a set with strong indications of a dystopian future, one could suggest that Haste Theatre were inspired by literary classics such as Orwell’s 1984 and Atwood̵…
Beyond the Blue is raising standards and redefining the role of theatre in education. Actors Alive is an innovative youth theatre company at Omnibus Clapham which is led by director and teac…
After reading rave reviews for Beach Comets Vampire Hospital Waiting Room, I expected great things from their second B-musical – Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair, which also swept up…
As we enter the intimate auditorium above The Hen and Chicken pub in Islington, raucous jazz music fills our ears. We are confronted with a simplistic set reminiscent of a stereotypical Lond…
Playwright Tajinder Singh Hayer on the inspiration behind his new play North Country, labels, identity, new genres, and why there's room for more British Asian science fiction in theatre. I …
Inspired by Chekov's 'The Cherry Orchard', Bonnie Greer takes us to Michigan and 'The Hotel Cerise', the almost abandoned getaway for the African-American elite. Relevantly set in our time o…
The English Touring Theatre tried their hand at adapting a text about love and classism earlier this year with Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. Now, months later, they've teamed up with …
Al Smith's Harrogate was thought of as the most impressive and engaging piece of writing at the 2015 HighTide festival. It is certainly not difficult to see why this is the case when watchin…
Originally the protagonist of Carlo Collodi's book set in 19th Century Italy, and then the eponymous star of the Disney classic, Pinocchio is a fairytale character that many of us remember f…
The Haunting of Exham Priory is based on one of my favourite H.P. Lovecraft stories, The Rats in the Walls, and so I was looking forward to seeing how the story – which contains severa…
Justine Malone laments Emma Rice's departure from the Globe, and says that the Board’s obsession with the past has taken its toll. Poor Shakespeare. 'When will my work get the DAMN RES…
Based on the memoir of Arnhild Lauveng, Tomorrow I Was Always A Lion gives a unique and honest perspective on the mind of a girl who is suffering from schizophrenia. It is simultaneously mes…
Earlier this year, Warwick University launched an innovative online database, charting the Shakespearean roles played by Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic actors in the UK, from 1930 to the p…
From the creative minds of Luke Adamson and Dan Bottomley comes a haunting, sombre, gothic tale… with a musical twist. The House of Usher is a gothic musical thriller (three words you don'…
Frontier Theatre Productions, founded by James Roose-Evans, is a theatre company that creates theatre for the older generation, otherwise known as the Third Age. The theatre they make is inc…
My Mother Medea flips the ancient tragedy of Medea on its head by removing the focus from the tragic heroine and placing it on her doomed children, while transporting them to 2016. The show …
The nights may be getting colder but Fire in the Ballroom by Burn the Floor really does heat things up at The Peacock theatre this month. If you are familiar with Strictly Come Dancing an…
“A diagnosis is a release, but it is also a separation.” In a physical dialogue with her disability, Suzie Birchwood expresses her struggle with dystonia as she trained as a ball…
John Godber is well known for being pretty prolific; since setting up the John Godber Company in 2010, in partnership with the Theatre Royal Wakefield, both his old and new work receive regu…
Blackshaw Theatre Company present a combination of scary stories, spooky anecdotes and powerful spoken word pieces in Scare Slam. Blackshaw work with new writing and adaptations but mainly a…
oby Dick! The Musical possibly lacks the… subtlety of Herman Melville's 1851 novel of which (and I am quoting the programme here) it is "freely adapted" from but tonight that is by no mean…
A musical about cancer is of course, no easy feat. Complicité and performance Artist, Bryony Kimmings (with the help of co-writers, Brian Lobel and Tom Parkinson) aim to get people talking …
Taken from the musical era, Ragtime is performed upon a stave of hatred, rebellion and piano blues. The storyline, although a little clunky and inconsistent at times, follows examples of …
