10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
The first installment in the blogs from the StoneCrab Gobstoppers can be read here The second installment in the blogs from the StoneCrab Gobstoppers can be read here The third installment i…
Molly Wobbly tells the tale of the residents of Mammary Lane in the town of Little Happening. It's not a subtle show, and you can grab a pretty good sense of the plot from the place names al…
Actor turned writer/director Alex McSweeney has illustrated one of the most important catalysts for the feminist movement in a new play. Drawing on historical facts regarding the ill-f…
It makes sense that a theatre dedicated to "showcasing and supporting the best new work" would spearhead a festival that situates solo performance and new writing at its core. This February,…
January and February are AYT Career Central months with guest blogs and features from arts professionals. Our third guest blog in this exciting series is from Paul Robinson, Artistic Directo…
In this digital age, our increasing reliance on online technology frequently challenges notions of identity, community and creativity, blurring the boundaries between the real and the imagin…
With technology being a constant, growing threat to how people interact with each other " how social media can alienate and provoke apathy " Arthur's World at the Bush Theatre touches a nerv…
Hello/Goodbye is a kitchen sink drama: however, exactly who that kitchen sink belongs to is a real bone of contention. Having been forced to make a swift exit from her previous abode, Juliet…
Described as "a tale of faith, family and bacon butties", Mush and Me tells the touching and timeless story of two young people falling in love. In Wetherspoons and hotel rooms, their relati…
The Tango Fire Company of Buenos Aires has been winning universal praise across the globe since 2005, when the five couples it features came together to create a formidable company. Wi…
The first instalment in the blogs from the StoneCrab Gobstoppers can be read here The second instalment in the blogs from the StoneCrab Gobstoppers can be read here The third instalment i…
February is a big month for comedy group Casual Violence. Their new show, The Great Fire of Nostril, runs at the Soho Theatre next week, immediately followed by the recording of a new "podca…
In the first act of Taken At Midnight, Irmgard Litten (Penelope Wilton) looks ahead to a time when "all memory is forgotten and only history remains". On Holocaust Memorial Day, and the 70th…
For the first few scenes of Spamalot, I had the same reservations that many of the Monty Python members had when the show debuted in 2004. Why would I want to pay to watch non-Monty Python a…
It's the height of the 1984 football season. Football hooliganism is rife, as is the basis for Marching on Together, a new script Yorkshire playwright Adam Hughes, confronting hooliganism's …
"Almost all the acting we see today, on stage or screen, is either an endorsement of, or reaction against, his principles." Theatre Critic Michael Billington Well that just about covers it. …
As was possibly inevitably the case, a hell of a lot of questions were thrown at the audience at Walking the Tightrope: The tension between art and politics, questions that we may have heard…
Tit4Twat Theatre's, yes you heard correctly, show Losers is attracting those that both love and hate theatre. Why?, is probably the appropriate question. This week I was able to get inside s…
Comedy isn't a genre we tend to place alongside art about the Holocaust, but in Theatre in the Theresienstadt Ghetto the two go hand in hand. This collection of plays to be performed in Febr…
A Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts combines Shakespeare, lemons and a game of strip-wrestling. Every performance is different because the protagonist of the show is picked from a hat b…
In their attempt to create a higher form of theatre, Soundboxed Collective have mashed together an intense and interesting hour-and-a-half of sound, movement, dance, drinking and rave to bri…
Thriller Live is a musical tribute concert to the late, great King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Unlike other tribute musicals such as Mamma Mia and We Will Rock You, this show is just over two h…
For The Paper Birds, Broke is the first show in a planned trilogy about the topic of class. The nature of the production explores our relationship with money, and huge effort went into re…
It's Violet Fox's birthday over and over again; there's balloons, party bags, musical chairs and Spice Girls is ringing out through the auditorium. The icing on the cake? Multitudinous rendi…
The Lion and the Unicorn Theatre is my local fringe venue, where everybody knows your name, and log fires and familiarity fuel the atmosphere. And yet every time I step into the theatre spac…
