10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Photo by Brinkhoff Mögenburg It is not characteristic of an actor to wish to shun the limelight. Stereotypically acting professionals are renowned for craving their names in lights or st…
Image: Courtesy of RSC. The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has commissioned the largest ever installation in their theatre. 'Sea-Markings', by Susan Stockwell is inspired by the summer seas…
A while ago I wrote a blog post pompously entitled 'How to make better films.' I wrote it because I thought if I came across one more casting brief asking for "Curvy Thin Sexy Brunette, 20-2…
The Man Who was written by Peter Brook and Marie-Helene Estienne in 1993 as L'Homme Qui, based on Oliver Sacks's 1985 best-seller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat. It has been rarely …
Are you looking for work in the arts industry? Each week we at A Younger Theatre are featuring the best job applications from across the arts spectrum. Whether you're looking for permanent, …
"Another heavenly day," Winnie says spritely, as she is awoken by a booming claxon to her quotidian nightmare, laid out before us in this Young Vic production of Beckett's Happy Days. Her li…
It is unusual to see King Lear and leave feeling that it is a play for the zone two roles. But that is exactly how I felt after seeing The Malachites' production. One of Shakespeare's greate…
Joy is three completely separate monologues, delivered by three completely detached men, afflicted by three completely different areas of life – love, job, the whole world – but …
Andrew Lloyd Webber's tale of the Jellicle Cats is one that captured imaginations when it nimbly leapt and pranced its way onto the West End in 1981. And to do so, it defied many an obstacle…
Standing at the window for best signal and over a crackling phone line, Daniel Davies chats about his latest play, The Domestic Extremists. The play follows the journey of Chloe, Toby and Ch…
Since its revival at the Young Vic last year, Ivo van Hove's A View from the Bridge has been on everyone's lips: it is the show everyone urges you to see, the show no one can get a ticket fo…
For one week only at Battersea Arts Centre, spoken word artist Polarbear, aka Steven Camden , is reviving his original show with If I Cover My Nose You Can't See Me. It is, as I learnt fr…
Solo performer Chris Williams channels the greats, and more importantly the not so greats, of comedy in I Never Told Joke In My Life at the Tristan Bates Theatre, giving us a (mainly int…
The First Festival at the Tristan Bates Theatre gives solo acts as opportunity to showcase their work. On Sunday 15th February, David Forest took to the stage to perform his own original son…
Andrew Maddock’s Cyprus Sunsets is the latest installment in The Me Plays, and tells the story of Me who is journeying back to a Cyprus holiday resort solo in order to cure his heartac…
Unfamiliar with Paula Vogel's 1997 play, How I Learned to Drive, I acquainted myself and immediately felt as though this could be something really special. I had expectations of a deeply rea…
With its server message title, and a plot “about a boy who’s best friend is a robot”, you’d be forgiven for assuming that Polka Theatre’s Error 404 is another e…
Stockholm Syndrome is a strange psychological scenario in which a victim can express sympathy, or even love, towards their abuser. It's much more common than many think; it occurs in many…
January and February are AYT Career Central months with guest blogs and features from arts professionals. Our fourth guest blog in this exciting series is from Julian Caddy, Brighton F…
Image: Simon Dank. One of the men responsible for a bombing in Brighton has helped to create a play about the incident. The Bombing of the Grand Hotel tells the story of the 1984 attack on t…
Rich Mix have begun a programme exploring the small stories that make this big old city of ours, poking their noses into everything from attic flats to chicken shops and the swept-up lives o…
La Barbe-Bleue, one third of Boireannach's ‘Into the Mire’ season took place in The Pit as part of the Vault Festival in Waterloo. This devised piece, inspired by the French f…
Every director has their own style, their way of approaching a text and working with their actors, so it is hard to give any kind of guidelines on how to rehearse or stage a show. I have bee…
Having survived weeks of great financial turmoil, and having now finally secured funding for the next couple of years (though under strict guidelines and restrictions) the English National O…
Too long have the Irish who fought in the British army during WWI been lost to obscurity. Whitewashed in the national memory by the nationalism that followed the 1916 Easter Rising, stories …
