10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Bertolt Brecht: hated by students who don't understand him, loved by the rest of us who still don't really understand him. The Threepenny Opera is perhaps his most theatrical ‘play wit…
R L Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is one of those tales that has become part of our culture and imagination ever since it was published in 1886. This dark tale of sci…
The Merchants of Bollywood is an electrifying dance theatre performance at the Peacock Theatre in conjunction with Sadler’s Wells. The story is set in India, in the deserts of Rajastha…
It's being touted as the linchpin of the Branagh Theatre season at the Garrick, but aren't we sick of Romeo and Juliet by now? There must be over 100 performances a year in London alone, so …
Knife Edge features chicken and chips, and big dreams for a girl who knows she deserves more from life than the abandonment and abuse she's received thus far. The play is produced by The Big…
The Government Inspector is a comedy masterpiece. It's very hard to go wrong with Nikolai Gogol's hilarious moral satire about a government inspector's arrival in a provincial Russian town. …
Labour rebels, a bereaved mother of a blown-up soldier and a disconnected upper middle class couple all feature in the first half of Out of Joint's A View From Islington North. In the latter…
Now Festival at The Yard is challenging the boundaries of theatre over five weeks of bold work. Deemed “a festival of new theatre for the here and now”, it comes at no surprise t…
Sarah Kane's devastating account of real-life suicide is a notoriously difficult play to accomplish. Covering clinical depression in almost sociological detail and honesty, this is a script …
Mike Poulton's brand new play Kenny Morgan begins with a bold but derivative opening image: Kenneth 'Kenny' Morgan, the titular character around which the conflict of the piece encircles, is…
It's just nature; it's just biology; yet it affects so many lives " 1 in 3, in fact. Jeff (David Keogh) and Jasmine (Alice Merivale) are two such individuals. They sit together sharing a roo…
Concerning the true story of the last man to stand trial in England in the 1800s for blasphemy, John Osbourne’s A Subject of Scandal and Concern is an hour-long examination of the inca…
Get 20% tickets to Minefield at the Royal Court Theatre Minefield, by Lola Arias | 2-11 June | #LIFT2016 What is a veteran: a survivor, a hero, a madman? The Falklands war represen…
The first piece of theatre I ever saw was The Snowman and it was the magic of seeing someone flying on stage that drew me in to theatre. I still love the magic of theatre, but it isn't the t…
Whoever commissioned Blue/Orange's revival at The Young Vic is an evil genius. Has there ever been a more appropriate piece of theatre to represent today's political scene? Two waring partie…
Here All Night is an evening of what can only be described in laymans terms, as a Beckett appreciation event. It consists of a variety of extracts from Beckett’s music and texts, coher…
Some time ago, a little company called Smoking Apples and Little Cauliflower (now called Dogfish) got together to create a show called CELL. Nominated for a Peter Brook Festival Award at AYT…
Transportive is a great word in theatre. This is more than good set design – it's ensuring that every technical molecule of a production works in harmony to capture the spirit of a loc…
Traditionally, the middle child has been a pitied figure, in danger of living in the older sibling's shadow and wanting the same the comfort blanket gifted to the youngest. It has been said …
Catherine Ireton has a disarming voice and in Leaving Home Party she uses it to tell the story of how she left home, returned, and left again. Her personal story is used to explore the notio…
Alice is sprawled face down on the water-soaked tarpaulin. Her husband Michael sits cross-legged watching her. She’s dead, and Michael must move on, eventually. But what if he’s …
It is sad that it's still rare to see a stage dominated by women, so I'm pleased the cast of Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour dominated in the way they did. The six young women have an infect…
David Baddiel's My Family: Not The Sitcom is the funeral speech that Baddiel says he wasn't able to give. Obviously, he says he would probably omit elements such as his mother's brash sexual…
From the Ground Up opportunity for young performers at The Almeida Theatre An exciting opportunity for 16-21 year olds has been announced by The Almeida Theatre for young performers to make …
Win a pair of tickets to Christie in Love at King’s Head Theatre Directed by Mary Franklin | Written by Howard Brenton | 25 May – 18 June Meet notorious serial killer: …
