Review: Bring Them Home, VAULT Festival by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: Bring Them Home, VAULT Festival3.0starsPart immersive theatre, part interactive board game, Treehouse Games' Bring Them Home provides an inventive, manic evening of 1970s Space Race-…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 7:00am on March 2, 2019☆⚑

Review: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bristol Tobacco Factory Theatres by Emma Robinson

Review: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bristol Tobacco Factory Theatres3.0starTobacco Factory modernise this much-loved classic with its gender bending and dystopian style performance; endeavour…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:00am on February 28, 2019☆⚑

Foot and Mouth Disease Impacted On So Many of Our Childhoods by Emily Jenkins

Fringe First Award winner, Emily Jenkins talks about the devastating effects of Foot and Mouth Disease on her home town and how it pushed her to write Bobby & Amy. Remember Foot and Mout…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:13pm on February 27, 2019☆⚑

Review: A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Really Sad), Back to Ours Festival by Hannah Hobson

Review: A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Really Sad), Back to Ours Festival 5.0Overall Score Absolutely Cultured's Back to Ours Festival, which aims to bring top quality arts experiences o…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 5:03am on February 27, 2019☆⚑

Review: And The Rest of Me Floats, Bush Theatre by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: And The Rest of Me Floats, Bush Theatre 4.0stars is a beautiful, brave exploration of gender identity and fluidity / burns with the constellations of possibilities shining between th…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:00am on February 26, 2019☆⚑

Review: Bon Voyage, Bob, Sadler's Wells by Gabriel Wilding

Review: Bon Voyage, Bob, Sadler's Wells 4.0stars Last night was momentous, not just within the world of experimental dance, but beyond. Pina Bausch's legendary company, Tanztheater Wupper…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 8:39am on February 26, 2019☆⚑

The Positives in Being Working Class and Influences on Creativity by Grace Duggan

Director, Grace Duggan writes about her fears of feeling inferior as a working-class creative, meeting like-minded minded people and seeing our backgrounds as a positive. In the last five ye…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:12am on February 25, 2019☆⚑

Review: The Murdér Express, Pedley Street Station by Madeline Lee

Review: The Murdér Express, Pedley Street Station 3.0Overall Score An immersive and interactive full dining experience with the classic 'whodunnit' plot line. The Murdér Express take…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 4:30am on February 25, 2019☆⚑

Review: As You Like It, Royal Shakespeare Theatre by Max Thomas

Review: As You Like It, Royal Shakespeare Theatre 3.0Overall Score The advertisements for this production of As You Like Itextend the mysterious invitation to 'come into the forest'…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 4:30am on February 25, 2019☆⚑

Review: Comrade Egg and the Chicken of Tomorrow, VAULT Festival by Alannah Jones

Review: Comrade Egg and the Chicken of Tomorrow, VAULT Festival 3.0Overall Score One of VAULT Festival's dingier performance spaces, the Cavern, is warmed by the conspiratorial presence of B…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 8:05am on February 24, 2019☆⚑

Review: Dinomania, New Diorama Theatre by Madeline Lee

Review: Dinomania, New Diorama Theatre 4.0stars Dinomania is a fast-paced look into Gideon Mantel's (a well known geologist who collected fossils to prove evolution) life in the 1800s and th…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 6:00am on February 24, 2019☆⚑

Theatremaker on a Budget: Applying for Arts Council Funding by Holly Bond

Thinking about but putting off that application for Arts Council funding? Fear not, Holly Bond has been there and she wants to offer some words of advice. I recently watched a great a play a…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:23pm on February 23, 2019☆⚑

Can the older and younger generations work effectively together in theatre? by Stan Owens

Why do the older and younger generations assume they have little in common? Here, someone writes first hand how working together in theatre can be an invaluable experience. Currently, it see…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:12am on February 19, 2019☆⚑

Review: Gypsy Queen, Hull Truck Theatre by Hannah Hobson

Review: Gypsy Queen, Hull Truck Theatre5.0Overall ScoreFrom its marketing, it would be easy to dismiss Gypsy Queen as another play confronting the latest 'issue' in a new and unexpected way.…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 6:48am on February 19, 2019☆⚑

Review: All About Eve, Noël Coward Theatre by Jessica Handscomb

Review: All About Eve, Noël Coward Theatre5.0starsAll About Eve is, somewhat predictably, all about Eve. Eve Harrington (Lily James), in particular – a down and out war widow with a…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:54am on February 18, 2019☆⚑

Barbara Matijević: "You'd think that as a performer it's almost automatic when they press play" by Emma Bentley

We talk with Barbara Matijević and Lewys Holt in the run up to their solo shows at The Place about working on your own and whether more ‘radical’ forms of dance will trickle …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 9:48am on February 18, 2019☆⚑

Review: SparkPlug, HOME Manchester by Emily Bancroft

Review: SparkPlug, HOME Manchester 5.0Overall Score SparkPlug could be simply described as the story of a young man who is desperately seeking some validation in his family life. However, to…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 5:24am on February 18, 2019☆⚑

Review: The D Word, VAULT Festival by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: The D Word, VAULT Festival5.0Overall ScoreDeftly dovetailing a deliciously droll disposition with a daringly dramatised dialogue on domestic difference and dynastic diversity, Jordan…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 5:24am on February 18, 2019☆⚑

Review: Babylon: Beyond Borders, Bush Theatre by Suzannah Ball

Review: Babylon: Beyond Borders, Bush Theatre 3.0Overall Score Babylon: Beyond Borders in an ambitious, passion-filled project spanning across four countries. In London, it feels as though I…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 6:12am on February 17, 2019☆⚑

Review: Jammie Dodger, VAULT Festival by A Younger Theatre

Review: Jammie Dodger, VAULT Festival80%Overall ScoreBy divine intervention, or a sheer stroke of genius, one of the performance dates of Jammie Dodger, the latest creation from rising star …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 6:12am on February 17, 2019☆⚑

Review: bottled. VAULT Theatre by Alexandra Wilbraham

Review: bottled. VAULT Theatre5.0starsMeet 15-year-old Katy. Her parents planned to call her Ellie but then she came out looking like a miniature sumo ringer and Ellie didn't really fit. Kat…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:24am on February 16, 2019☆⚑

Review: random, Leeds Playhouse by Ela Portnoy

Review: random, Leeds Playhouse4.0starsdebbie tucker green is something special. She may write poetry, but it is poetry of the people " a musical reproduction of everyday speech, where each …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 8:12am on February 16, 2019☆⚑

Review: Landscape (1989), VAULT Festival by Alannah Jones

Review: Landscape (1989), VAULT Festival2.0starsBen Kulvichit and Clara Potter-Sweet of Emergency Chorus are the creators and performers of the company's second show as a New Diorama Graduat…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 6:06am on February 16, 2019☆⚑

Review: Marmite, VAULT Festival by Grace Patrick

Review: Marmite, VAULT Festival3.0Overall ScoreDespite focusing only on Dylan (Theo Walker) and Eddie (Ned Costello), a very normal Bristol based couple, Marmite appears to use this pair as …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 9:04am on February 15, 2019☆⚑

Review: Akhnaten, London Coliseum by Olivia Gibbs-fairley

Review: Akhnaten, London Coliseum4.0starsAncient Egyptian culture is so strongly associated with a worship of a multitude of gods and goddesses (as well as pyramids, hieroglyphics and mummie…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:54am on February 14, 2019☆⚑