10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
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Image: biography.com A competition to find the UK's best student performer will take place this month. Twelve students from across the country have been selected to take part in the St…
The inevitability of yet more cuts to the arts after today's election result has brought morale to a staggering low. At the same time I'm seeing hope and I'm still seeing some excellent thea…
Performance artist Bobby Baker and Daily Life Ltd host The Expert View, a two-day micro festival dealing with mental health. Daily Life Ltd is an arts and mental health charity based in Stra…
One of the great debates the UK is currently facing at the moment is the controversial topic of immigration, and on stage at the Courtyard Theatre is the epitome of cultural and racial integ…
Entering the Rose Playhouse performance space is like entering a dystopian novel: wide open spaces, low ceilings, and a suspiciously large pool of water. The aesthetics of the place can't be…
"It's not good for one's morals to see bad acting" is one of the lines that I remember most in this 90 minute one-act play. I assume that this line stuck with me throughout the production be…
It is Max Newman's (Alan Cox) finest hour. Despite a flighty political past and dubious tabloid reputation " very consciously modelled on Boris Johnson " he is the darling of the voting publ…
On coming away from a performance that I struggled to find any positives in, I always feel a sense of guilt, but sadly this is true of the new offering from choreographers Angel Rojas and Ca…
Most people will know the story of Jurassic Park having seen this classic dinosaur film. You could easily see this comedy adaptation without needing to see the film but just in case, here…
Centre stage and bathed in a faint blue glow are the two rows of car seats that make up the interior of a Bluebird Nissan, the taxi owned by Jimmy MacNeil (played by Malcolm Freeman). Surrou…
Having been greeted at the door, we are told we are present at a focus group. We are also asked to stand underneath one of a set of wooden shapes attached to the wall. This is the first of m…
Sometimes it is hard to find the right word to describe an experience and, after 80 minutes of Cuddles, I am speechless. Written by emerging playwright Joseph Wilde, Cuddles intoxicates the …
TESTBED1 at the Doodle Bar hosts the second Kaleidoscopic Arts Platform and it seems like the ideal location for this show; unsuspecting, new and innovative, setting the scene for the assort…
Shakespeare has been reworked and modernised continuously but even Shakespeare himself would have been impressed with this particularly drunken performance. The first thing you have to know …
Alex Horne: Monsieur Butterfly is a very unusual comedy show. Whilst stand-up comedy could usually be described as 'someone standing still telling jokes for an hour, and maybe swinging th…
In the history of plays, TV shows and films based on real life events, there has always been a sense of moral duty to those who are being portrayed, and to the incidents the performances are…
With a title such as Electric Dreams, the show suggests the unexpected from the very start. Walking into the space, you are immediately struck by the almost apocalyptic-style set, with plast…
Shackleton's Cat is based on the true story of Ernest Shackleton (played by Ashley Mercer) and his expedition to cross the South Pole. Written and directed by Tim Yealland, English Touring O…
Alys Metcalf’s first full-length production, Unearthed, has been staged and presented by the newly formed Folio Theatre Company; and with such a strong debut show I imagine it will sta…
The Audience is an international smash hit production, starring Kristin Scott Thomas as Queen Elizabeth II. The story depicts the Queen’s 60 years of weekly audiences with the prime mi…
What makes a good comedian? It's impossible to tell, I've seen so many that I have loved one week and felt drained by the next. There are few that I'd recommend, I don't like the pressure of…
Matchbox Theatre takes 24 short plays by Michael Frayn and presents them in five minute sketches, in the space of two hours. The small cast move from story to unrelated story in the most exp…
Company of Angels have been working for over a decade with the aim of “fostering and producing challenging theatre with and for young people.” But when it comes to their Theatre …
Galway Theatre Festival may have exchanged its Halloween-webbing for the temperate beginnings of May, getting its foot in the door of the festival season before anyone else, but Agustina MuÃ…
