10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
As the audience take their seats in the intimate space of the Camden People’s Theatre, Hester Chillingworth is herself onstage- sitting leisurely, watching us enter and smiling at frie…
Turkey is Frankie Meredith's first full-length play. It centres around Madeline (Peyvand Sadeghian) who desperately wants to have a baby. The fact that she is in a relationship with a woman,…
The Gate Theatre is an immersive and interesting space for a designer to work with. The designer in this case is Rosie Elnile, who has taken on The Unknown Island by Jose Saramago, which has…
Happy Yet? is the story of a middle-aged man, Torsten, and his inability to function within Swedish society. From an attic flat in Stockholm, Torsten wages battle not only with his brother a…
Let's talk about women playwrights of colour in theatre. Recently there was public outrage over the lack of female playwrights in leading London Theatres and, rightly so. The numbers are sho…
On the night of the moon landing, dreamer Sylvia Moone loses her virginity to an unnamed astronaut. 86 years later, her granddaughter of the same name, is just that, a NASA astronaut travell…
Jane Eyre is a novel that lives within the social consciousness, the name is recognised across nations and languages and the story is one that has been told over and over again. The plot is …
I didn't know what to expect with Fever Pitch the Opera. I had neither read the book that it's based on, nor was I aware that there was a film until my football aficionado boyfriend told me …
First performed in 1955, Alice Childress' Trouble in Mind is still depressingly relevant today. A poignant exploration of the many insidious facets of racism, the play examine…
"Were we having an argument? I thought we were having a baby." Without a doubt, Eleonora Fusco deserves the attention that she received from the Papatango New Writing Prize and the BBC Write…
Ramona Tells Jim, the debut play by Sophie Wu at the Bush Theatre, is a production fuelled by nostalgia to confront the gap that exists between expectations of what life will be like when we…
Terrorism, a word that needs no introduction. Guillermo Calderon, the Chilean playwright, has tackled this topic with a unique angle in his new drama, B. Directed by Sam Pritchard, B is a fa…
It begins at the end. The year is 1815 and a French warship is wrecked off the east coast of England in the small town of Hartlepool. Devastated by the Napoleonic Wars, the townsfolk are app…
'La petit mort' is a phrase originating from the sixteenth century. Its literal translation is 'the little death', but it is more commonly used to describe the sensation of orgasm and liken …
A part of Hope Street Ltd's On The Verge Festival, which champions daring performances in unusual places, Pour and Serve is an immersive theatre experience by Manchester-based writer and per…
In the 90s, I remember seeing the Posse and the Bibi Crew at Theatre Royal Stratford East, and being amazed at all that creativity on stage and that all these inspiring people were Black! Th…
It is no secret that theatre has a diversity problem and, that is a stew that only thickens when we look at the state of theatre criticism. At the end of 2016, it was reported that there wer…
In a bedroom straight out of every noughties girl's fantasy, best friends Jess (Georgia May Hughes) and Lucy (Bebe Sanders) dance to Atomic Kitten's 'The Tide is High' to a backdrop of Groov…
Keith Bunin's The Busy World is Hushed takes aim at the motivations behind the faith of individuals, which here means questioning what, exactly, ties us to where we happen to be, what it is …
When a play has two acclaimed actors in its starring roles, the ability to bring in an audience each night goes without saying. However, when you get the chance to experience Tamsin Greig…
Ramona Tells Jim, the debut play by Sophie Wu at the Bush Theatre, is a piece fuelled by nostalgia to confront the gap that exists between expectations of what life will be like when we grow…
Venus, Aphrodite, or the Goddess of Love. 'Love' was a loosely applied term in Ancient Greece, one that could often have been replaced with lust; all-consuming and passionate, but lust nonet…
The abstract minimalism of the set design that we are met with on entering The Hen and Chickens Theatre, lays the tone for this absurdist production of Tom Stoppard’s If You’re G…
Imagine If’s You Forgot the Mince presents a moving descent into an abusive relationship. ‘Love Me Tender’ by Elvis Presley ominously plays as we enter the space, setting t…
Bullish uses the story of Asterion, the Minotaur of Greek mythology, to examine the "sticky and joyous complexities of gender identity, and in particular the fluid negotiation of gender tran…
