10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Throughout the pandemic, theatre companies have had to find increasingly innovative ways to tell stories and reach communities. In our latest interview, Eleanor Dewar speaks to Encounter's d…
Review: Mission One: The Heist, Agent Venture 4.0Overall Score Agent Venture's Mission One: The Heist is a Zoom based adventure to complete alongside three or four friends/colleagues. Prior …
Review: The Aftermath, Northern Broadsides, Northern Rascals, The Piece Hall Trust4.0Overall ScoreIn The Aftermath, young people of Calderdale have come together, with the help of Northern B…
Review: Unearthed, New Vic Theatre, Hoard: Rediscovered3.0Overall ScoreUnearthed is the centre piece of the Hoard: Rediscovered series from the New Vic Theatre. It is a 40-minute show tellin…
Review: Hwaet!, New Vic Theatre and Hoard:Rediscovered 4.0Overall Score Hwaet!, the monologue from Tom Wells, is told from the perspective of Liz (Elizabeth Elvin) " a mother who is nervousl…
Review: Phoenix, English Touring Theatre4.0Overall ScoreAs the country endures a second lockdown, Mike Bartlett's audio drama revisits one of the biggest controversies of the first. His 17-m…
Review: The Bus Stop, Traverse Theatre3.0Overall ScoreThe Bus Stop centres around the story of Jack, a young wheelchair user who is the victim of a cruel disability hate crime. The fallout c…
Review: Looking For Fireflies, Pitlochry Festival Theatre4.0Overall ScoreIn a world currently shadowed with grief in various shapes and forms, finding the ways and words to express the ongoi…
Before lockdown 2.0, Lindsey Huebner caught up with Roy Williams to discuss Death of England: Delroy, the concept of "Britishness", and the potential for more plays in the Death of England s…
Review: Falling Stars, Union Theatre 2.0Overall Score As the era of Music Hall began to fade away in the early twentieth century, a new breed of Musical Theatre composition began to develop,…
Review: The Leak, Mother Pictures4.0Overall ScoreThroughout the global outbreak of COVID-19, and the ensuing lockdown, friends and families everywhere were forced to reinvent the way in whic…
Review: The Poltergeist, The Southwark Playhouse4.0Overall ScoreWhile his writing of The Poltergeist is nowhere near as unhinged as Tender Napalm, Philip Ridley brings us an enthralling new …
Review: N A K E D, Voila! Festival, Cockpit Theatre 3.0Overall Score Reader Rating 0 Votes Society has always had an obsession with the naked body. Lovers explore its sensuality, artists stu…
Review: Lament for Sheku Bayoh, National Theatre of Scotland and EIF4.0Overall ScoreLament for Sheku Bayoh is a response to the 2015 death of an unarmed black man, Sheku Bayoh, whilst in pol…
Review: Magic, New Vic Theatre and Hoard: Rediscovered3.0Overall ScoreReader Rating 0 VotesIt is perhaps stating the obvious to point out that the limits imposed by monologue mean that they …
Review: Inscribed, New Vic Theatre and Hoard: Rediscovered 4.0Overall Score Reader Rating 0 Votes Of the Hoard: Rediscovered plays that I've seen, Inscribed may be the boldest, and most cont…
Review: We Missed You,Voila! Festival by The Cockpit4.0Overall ScoreReader Rating 0 VotesWe Missed You is the title of Julia Masli, Viggo Venn and Valeria Burmistrova's online performance th…
Review: Play Inside: Other Mothers, Splash and Ripple 4.0Overall Score Reader Rating 0 Votes A new and lively family moved into my building recently. When they're not making me jump or grumb…
Review: Shaken, The Actor's Centre3.0Overall ScoreReader Rating 0 VotesShaken drags you through the spectacle of a post-earthquake Puebla. We are met with the most phenomenal set " even more…
Back in February, Samuel Nicholls spoke to Tobias Cornwell, artistic director of GOOMS, about standing out in an already oversaturated fringe theatre scene. Now, ten months and one pandemic …
Review: Transhuman, Golden Age Theatre Company3.0Overall ScoreThe topic of transhumanism is one that has become increasingly popular with new writers in the last few years. With more and mor…
Review: What a Carve Up!, Online5.0Overall ScoreReader Rating 0 VotesThey say that money is the root of all evil. Henry Filloux-Bennett and Tamara Harvey's stage adaptation of Jonathan Coe's…
Review: Sh*t Happens, The Cockpit3.0Overall ScoreTheatre in your bathroom? That is exactly what Patrycja Dynowska's show Sh*t Happens delivers. I find myself on a one-to-one Zoom call with t…
Review: Serving Face, Shout Festival 3.0Overall Score With Harry Styles' Vogue cover shoot and the queering of gendered fashion buzzing through mainstream media, there seems to be no better …
Review: Here We Are Again, Pitlochry Festival Theatre3.0Overall ScoreHere We Are Again feels like a slight tease due to the timing of its release. The short, from writer Dan Rebellato, f…
