10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Edited by the late Alan Rickman and Journalist Katherine Viner, My Name is Rachel Corrie is composed of emails and diary entries written by deceased activist Rachel Corrie. Corrie was tragic…
People's images of the character of Pinocchio are likely to conjure up largely those of long noses and animation, but Jasmin Vardimon's play takes the story back to its Italian roots, away f…
Here we are again Happy as can be All good pals and jolly good company. Â So sings everybody as we gather around our flower-laden table in The Dukes Centre for Creative Learning each Thur…
When you take the walk from Hackney Central through a moderately creepy garden to get to the oddly placed Sutton House, it’s difficult to know what to expect from Dracula. How can Bram…
This debut play by Laila Bouromane is an accomplished and slick production, and a better tribute than the company Hambre’s other recent show Another Northern Man – also directed …
The ENO's The Barber of Seville is steeped in history, in more ways than one. Firstly, we have the inimitable Sir Jonathan Miller at the helm. Secondly, this production neatly marks 30 years…
First performed at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Happy Yet? is the first play from 22-year-old Swedish playwright Katie Berglöf. Â Written as a response to her own experience of men…
Warm lights present Joy's world to the audience in Gerry's Studio at Theatre Royal Stratford East. The sisters, Joy (Imogen Roberts) and Mary (Rachel Bright), enter the stage together, facin…
Published in 1865, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is a story that has been loved and revered by adults and children alike for over 150 years. Now, since its creation in 2011, Christophe…
As We Like It is the third production I've seen as part of the Come As You Are Festival at the Camden People's Theatre. So far, it has been a mixed bag and I'm not sure what to expect from t…
'This will be funny one day' Mountview student, Rachel Causer, champions this attitude in her one woman show; (Re)play. For Causer, I'm pleased to say that day is today. (Re)play is a perfor…
Saint George and the Dragon is a remimagining of Evgeny Schwartz’ ‘The Dragon’, an allegory of Stalinism, by playwright Rory Mullarkey, centred on England. The tale is of G…
Following his critically acclaimed Cyprus Avenue at the Royal Court in 2016, award-winning playwright David Ireland's The End of Hope drops its anchor at the Soho Theatre for a month-long ru…
The brainchild of EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) holder Mel Brooks, the creative force behind classics like The Producers, and visionary director and choreographer Susan Stroman who's work…
Getting to Maiden Speech, the feminist voices festival taking over the confusingly named Theatre N16 (it's actually south of the river in Balham), is a theatrical experience in itself. Tu…
When I enter the cosy space of the Southwark Playhouse, an immediate feeling of nostalgia sweeps over me. Background music plays, the kind that conjures images of lovers running through fiel…
After its debut at the 1985 Brighton Fringe, Yukio Ninagawa's revered production of Macbeth is back. A unique and beautiful fusion of East and West, Shakespeare's timeless tale gets a Japane…
'This is a story about the difference between us.' In a way, the above statement is true; Victory Condition is a story about the thousands of differences between every human and the one they…
Notorious, performed as part of the Fierce Festival, is a piece described as 'live art, theatre, dance and fine art'. The Festival, hosted at various venues around Birmingham, is here to cel…
"Our bodies, our minds, our power" the ultimate message in this production of Jekyll and Hyde. Influenced by such women as Emmeline Pankhurst, Florence Nightingale and Josephine Butler;Â a…
Les Vêpres Siciliennes is an epic undertaking by the Royal Opera. Spanning five acts and four hours, it is somewhat of a marathon, where against all the odds the performers continue to ba…
The Maiden Speech festival is a series of short works designed to showcase young student's explorations of gender and sexuality. It was intended to give an outlet for female performers to st…
The Hope Theatre is an example of one of the great smaller venues in London dedicated to opportunities for new writing and allowing creatives to get off the ground " its 50-seat black box sp…
Masculinity, manliness and masochism, what do they really mean and what do we mean when we use these words to talk about someone? Pablo Pakula's Masculine Expressions of my Creative Prowess …
It’s difficult to tackle a classic of Frankenstein’s proportions. But director Ross McGregor and the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre really know how to put on a show. Arresting, emo…
