10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Maydays blitzes through more than 30 years of political revolutions, turmoil, demonstrations and dissent. Moving from the Fall of Berlin in the spring of 1945 to Callaghan's 1978-9 so-called…
Review: Mrs Dalloway, Arcola Theatre4.0StarsVirginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway is, like much of her work, more interested in the complexities of the human individual than in the intricacies of pl…
My journey to the Almeida's Youth Advisory Board began when I was part of the theatre's Young Company. I’ve been involved with the Almeida since last year after joining them on their p…
Dionysus descends from Olympia to manage a chicken shop in Penge. Here, as Dennis (Jorell Coiffic-Kamall), he faces Wendy (Annie Siddons) across the counter. Childhood friends, adult saviour…
Doilies and deception, surveillance in the 60's, and more cups of tea than the Great British Bake Off. Pack of Lies is a moving play based on a true story, focusing on the way political turm…
"Welcome to my heart," Tara Rankine greets you as you arrive at The Space for her one-woman cabaret show Love Is A Work In Progress. At first, it's a very chilled environment; cookies are gi…
I don't think any of us particularly enjoy the dentist, but the situation mostly plays out like this: we dread it for a little while, we attend our appointment, we're uncomfortable for a bit…
As you wait for POT to begin, a mist hangs in the air and around the brown-tinged set. This flat has patched up floors, a faded sofa, a grimy radiator and clutter in the form of crushed beer…
A confession: I am not sure whether I actually like Pinter. The last production I saw – Ian Rickson's star-studded staging of The Birthday Party earlier this year " left me cold, thoug…
A man, surrounded by a blue glow, falls slowly into what looks like sand. The stage is dark. A woman in red watches him with a solemn expression. Suddenly, 215 bodies turn to their sides on …
Simon Godwin delivers a great big fuck-off Shakespeare at the National, and it's everything you'd expect it to be. Antony and Cleopatra is perhaps the most notoriously difficult of Shakespea…
"A word after a word after a word is power." Margaret Atwood. It is vital that people, ALL people feel that their story and their authentic, uncompromised voice, has a place in the theatre i…
I really love Pop-Up Opera. Not only because they make opera accessible to those who wouldn't pick Covent Garden as their first choice of entertainment; or because they make work that can to…
The battle to get Kate Prince's musical SYLVIA out of previews continues to be almost as painful as the fight for women's suffrage itself, but when it eventually does open, it's set to be a …
The Human Voice is a monodrama, a stolen conversation, a phone call that no one is supposed to hear, perhaps not even the person on the other end of the line. And yet there we are, wearing h…
Theatre N16, which recently took over the performance space of the aptly named 'Styx', located in the far reaches of North-East London, is a bare concrete space which provides a stark and ed…
Marathon is the thought process you experience when watching the news: what’s wrong with the world today? Heart-breaking story after heart-breaking story. Who’s going to do an…
Although Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis is a play familiar to most people in touch with the world of theatre, Paula Garfield has directed a first: the only production of 4.48 Psychosis to be pe…
Moving sheets billow, and the waves begin to look as although they are dancing as we stare out to sea. So the stage is set for this nautical themed dance piece set in a far-flung lighthouse.…
The last good bit of news I had was that my mum's friend from work has a life size Idris Elba cut out. After scrolling forever through Amazon trying to find the 'right Idris' for a set piece…
Albert Camus's 1942 novel L'Etranger follows Meursault, whose mother dies, and who then kills an Arab man on the beach just because the sun was in his eyes. It has now been adapted for th…
“[They cross the Andes]” So goes the seemingly unstageable direction from Peter Schaffer's 1964 epic The Royal Hunt of the Sun. The buzz of public scepticism and curiosity, which…
Far, far away, out in the treacherous zone 3, is Styx. Open both day and night, it boasts chilled out seating areas, a bar, a pizza joint, and Theatre N16. It's tucked away down a road; just…
In this modern reimagining, Tartuffe (Asif Khan) is a con man who swindles a Brummie-Pakistani family out of their house and savings. Assuming the piety of 'an angel' and eschewing material …
Gurpreet Kaur Bhati's new play Dishoom! is a bizzare yet enlightening look at Indian culture, scratching at the surface of the struggles the country faced due to westernisation. Set in a …
