10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Grand Guignol Southwark Playhouse £13 Ticket Offer 23 Oct " 22 Nov | 7.30pm, 3pm Sat matinees 1903. Paris, Monmartre and the Theatre du Grand Guignol opens its doors to an unsuspe…
It's awesome when theatre companies draw on the past to create new, fresh and original work. This is what Actors of Dionysus has done with its new piece Helen, which brings to the audience a…
November 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and one could reasonably argue that now is a good time to stage this ambitious production. Burning Coal, an Americ…
“Everything bad is real.” Moe (Sean Rigby) the security guard appears to give the audience a clue, somewhere in the second half of this mind-bending drama. Set in an apocalyptic …
Image courtesy of Tania Van Amse Since starting his writing career just two short years ago, Stuart Slade has already been nominated for two Off West End Awards, and is fast establishi…
Rough for Opera (Photo credit Lucas Marti Padilla)Â Opera. It's not for everyone. A commonly held but inaccurate preconception thought by many, yet Second Movement are about to change tha…
Win a pair of tickets to see Nicobobinus at the Lost Theatre with our competition. Read on to find out how to enter. Nicobobinus Lost Theatre 11 December 2014 " 3 January 2015 A new fa…
"Why not Hamlet or Richard III or A Midsummer Night's Dream or Much Ado About Nothing?" Salient questions, all posed to Sophia Chetin-Leuner, director of UCLU Drama Society's rendering of Sh…
The intention of immersive theatre is to transport the audience member into another world, not just as a passive bystander but as a part of the action, no matter how small. Site-specific and…
For me, theatre is all about bringing something unique and different to an audience, whether it be a good hard-hitting play, a good bit of storytelling or a wacky piece of performance art th…
Lights come up to reveal a public park with a mermaid statue and one suited dancer on stage. There is stillness: the trickling water cascading from the water feature dapples the silence with…
Caryl Churchill's 2000 play, Far Away is a masterclass in playwriting and creating powerful political allegory, making its recent revival at the Young Vic a must-see for all theatre-makers a…
Theatre is such a diverse performance platform that it can catapult all kinds of work at an audience, and this is exactly what York Theatre Royal's TakeOver Festival is all about. A fitting …
The Shipwrecked House is a performance of poems from Claire Trévien's debut collection of the same name. But trust Trévien, who has contributed to a whole load of exciting poetry projects …
Hardcore Gothic fans will be pleasantly surprised by the comprehensiveness of the British Library's Gothic exhibition. Beginning with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, generally agreed…
In truly modern fashion, pianist Owen (Philip Honeywell) is a data entry clerk while girlfriend Holly (EJ Martin) urges him to then at least do some weddings. Owen cannot physically touch a …
We all know how a smell can make time travel happen. We'll suddenly get a whiff of the way our old school smelled and we simultaneously think we've forgotten to do our homework. It's all dow…
When I enter York Theatre Royal for the press launch of TakeOver Festival, I'm hit with how buzzing and alive the foyer is. Music fills the room, courtesy of a ukulele band (the brilliantly …
As an emerging artist making theatre means doing the jobs you don't like to do because you believe in what you are doing. Unless you can pay someone else to do it for you. And, if you're rea…
Is it a play? Is it a gig? No – it's some kind of hybrid live music story-telling experience brought to you by nabokov and director Joe Murphy! Symphony is a collaboration with three o…
Old habits die hard, and some harder than others. These are certainly resounding words for Arty, the central character of Beached. Plagued by an addiction for food, he is the world's fattest…
Perhaps the most startling revelation about Manfred Karge’s one woman show, Man to Man, is that it is a true story. It’s pre-war Germany and Ella Gericke is hounded by genuine…
Marion Banning (Janet Suzman) lives alone, in the South African middle of nowhere. Not in town, not in the township. She writes to her daughter, who lives in Australia, lengthy letters that …
The rather tiresome but quite successful fashion for creating musicals based on movies has settled down this year. Instead we have seen Broadway transfers (Urinetown, The Scottsboro Boys …
Stumbling out into the acting world and realising that 87%* of the world's population is now made up of actors (*official figure estimated by me), can make new actors panic a little. We are …
