10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
The most remarkable aspect of this show is the direct communication with the audience and the eye contact that the actor, Conor Lovett, is constantly keeping with you. His energy, text maste…
The welcome return of the York Theatre Royal means it's also time to welcome back their intimate Studio venue. Although not quite matching the grandeur of their Main House, the Studio often …
Can I Start Again Please is a challenging performance about the capacity of language to represent traumatic experience, particularly childhood sexual abuse. It is never going to be an easy w…
Selma Dimitrijevic's decision to cast male actors in female roles is certainly a bold decision. It's not original, of course: Shakespearean female characters have been played by men for hund…
Less is more, and Lowri Amies proves it. Words, Words, Words is a scream of despair; it is a brutally honest one-hour sharing; it is an act of courage and kindness. It is a one-woman show in…
Paul (Thom Jordan) is a shy, unassuming young man with a story to tell; an injustice to put right. He stands on his soapbox and all but preaches to a congregation. Trust in God. Put your fai…
The Half Life of Love conjures up images of a radioactive passion and a yearning that poisons the victim long after the initial source has vanished. Gail Louw's play has much in common with …
For a while, it was considered unfashionable to be too overtly partisan in political theatre. Undermined, Danny Mellor's hour-long one-man show about the mining strikes of the mid-eighties, …
Bernard Shaw's wonderfully wicked and witty play, The Philanderer, is a real joy to behold on hearing the text alone. Shaw utilises a seemingly innocuous configuration of love triangles to e…
Theatre is a collaborative experience. We need actors, writers, directors and audiences and Shattered Fragments is an exploration of that. Above the Bread and Roses, which is currently close…
Mark Simpson's new opera Pleasure is as a co-commission and co-production between Aldeburgh Music, Opera North and The Royal Opera House (and presented in London in association with the Lyri…
There is something very cinematographic about this show. It feels like you are witnessing the shooting of an American blockbuster series. The set, by Max Dorey, has well thought out detail a…
As if I'm halfway through third term of second year at York! The time certainly does fly by! Of course, the third years graduating soon will probably be a lot more nervous than I am! But the…
Menkind by Embrace Theatre is about Barry, Alan and Martin's journey into deep space on a Starr Intergalactic Tour Capsule. Â They are on a stag do, and the piece uses this to question the…
Four women gently sway in synchronised formation. Fledglings all, they slowly test their bodies' capability for movement, voice and comprehension. Gradually, under Laura Burns' instruction, …
The Complete Deaths by Spymonkey is an exercise in theatricality and endurance. To perform all of Shakespeare's 75 on-stage deaths is no mean feat, and not to be taken on lightly. That's wha…
In lieu of recent political events, a play focusing on the aftermath of the 2014 Scottish referendum might feel slightly dated. Indeed Better Together, the new family drama from David Weir, …
I'm Not Jesus Christ is based on the true tale of eleven-year-old, Mihai. He is raised in Romania solely by his mother and prohibited from going to school as she believes he is Jesus Christ.…
Something's not right with Georgie. She's turning 40 and she's lost her heart, hope and other h's along the way.
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People Places & Things | 15 Mar " 18 Jun 2016 Following a critically-acclaimed, sold-out season at the National Theatre, People, Places & Things has transferred to the Wyndham…
Saucy Jack and The Space Vixens (SJATSV) is a title bold and strange enough to intrigue almost anyone into asking what on earth you might be seeing. This show takes you beyond Earth and i…
King Lear is a timeless Shakespearian tragedy. Presented by Royal & Derngate Northampton at the Richmond Theatre, we watch the King split his kingdom to his three daughters. Much ensues …
James Cairns' solo performance in Nick Warren's Dirt is a Brighton Fringe must see, with Cairns asserting his talent for physical comedy, characterisation, accents and dynamic facial express…
Devilish!'s writer and lyricist Chris Burgess claims that his most recent work takes inspiration from a John Ruskin quotation, HG Wells' The Wonderful Visit, and Bruegel's famous depiction o…
Echoes is an evocatively written two-hander from Spitting Image writer Henry Naylor. Â Interwoven monologues tell the stories of two women, separated by 175 years but united by parallels i…
