10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
"Knock, knock " Who is there?" Who would have thought that the new flatmate of Alice (Stephanie Lane) and Oli (James Burton) is someone who is always dressed in a tiger costume? This man, Ti…
What Prompted You to Decide to Start Up? I formed my first creative company All The Skills in 2008 in partnership with a friend as a "one stop shop" for performing and visual arts workshops …
So how to be a producer… Firstly, take a breath. Secondly, get those sleeves rolled up. Right I think we're ready. Being a producer requires clarity and spontaneity, enthusiasm and cre…
As part of Sadler's Wells' fifteenth annual flamenco festival, MarÃa Pagés and her company take on Bizet's opera and present their version of Carmen's story in Yo Carmen. The affair is d…
The Battersea Arts Centre is the kind of place you could imagine Romeo and Juliet meeting: the ceilings are high, the paint gaudy but peeling, the lighting soft. It lends slight atmosphere t…
Alex Benjamin's Cotton investigates the impact of professional gaming on the participants' impressions of reality. Precocious Kieran (Ben Mallett) throws a game at mid-point after a crisis m…
Award-winning actress Monica Dolan leads a whistle-stop tour through an exploration of childhood, victim blaming, and sexism. The author and star of The B*easts, she manages to evoke that ki…
Girls & Boys is not what it may sound like. No, this is not a harmless romance about a boy and a girl, although it begins as one. But as time goes on, our unnamed narrator (Carey Mulliga…
"Stop complaining, there is no narrative" Written by Abi Zakarian (Fabric, Fringe First Winner 2016), I Have a Mouth and I Will Scream is one of three pieces of new writing co-produced for t…
Gold Coast should demand attention. Written by Louise Gooding, who has experience as a Radio 4 playwright, and with the award-winning (and sold out) Theatre 503 as the setting, this play set…
In making Me & My Bee, we wanted to take on the challenge of creating a show for families that delivers a big idea to small people. Our focus is on how to tell the story, get the message…
Like the character at the heart of The York Realist, the playwright Peter Gill was also once a young, learning director working on a revival of York's Mystery Plays in the 60s with a cast of…
Have you ever thought about how sex has a three-act structure? This is what I was thinking about whilst listening to The White Stripes and wondering what the best way would be to write a pla…
My family in Essex think I'm nuts. Funny but nuts. They don't understand what I'm trying to do as a career, but (luckily) they love the idea of it. "…Our Michelle's a playwright and an act…
Be in with a chance to win 2 tickets to new stage adaptation of Derek Jarman’s seminal film, Jubilee, at the Lyric Hammersmith! A new stage adaptation of Derek Jarman’s semin…
The latest show at The Old Vic is the dystopian vision of Alan Ackybourn " The Divide. It depicts a future world in which men and women must live separately due to a plague that has ridden t…
I have never been so excited to review a show as I am now! Gundog, by Simon Longman, is an intimate reflection of family dynamic executed 'on a farm in the middle of nowhere'. Longman's play…
'The Moor is different in the morning, than at night' Written by Catherine Lucie, The Moor is about a young mother Bronagh (Jill Mcausland) who searches for freedom within her life. She long…
This was my first visit to the Unicorn Theatre, and I couldn’t have been more impressed with their calibre of theatre for young people. Othello is told in a way that I doubt you would …
What does it mean to be human? That is the core of the stage adaptation of the manga story Pluto. Set in a world with highly advanced robots, Pluto questions the ability of sensing emotions …
It’s hard to approach a comedy review without thinking you are God's gift to the entertainment industry. So, here goes an attempt to review an artists’ work from the point of vie…
The Soul of Wittgenstein, which first appeared at the excellent King's Head Theatre two years ago, is once again with us in London, with the same cast and core crew but this time at the Omni…
It has been ten years since Ken Campbell, ‘theatrical maverick’, passed away. Terry Johnson's Ken suitably tributes the genius in this narrated re-enactment of his most memorable…
Founded by Bips Mawson and Leila Sykes, Anonymous is a Woman is a new theatre company created in response to the underrepresentation of women within history and society, as we know it. Based…
An alarm sounds. Light changes. These are the signals for another emergency drill training, which interrupts the daily life problems of the three characters in The Drill at the Battersea Art…
