Sunday, September 11, 2016
Upon entry I'm handed a badge. "Dreams are free motherfuckers" it says, setting the tone for the evening's proceedings. The UK premiere of punkplay at the Southwark Playhouse aims – as…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:21PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 10, 2016
As I walk into the Arcola Theatre for my latest review, I jokingly contemplate that How to Date a Feminist would be the perfect first date for proud gender egalitarians such as myself. What …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Stanley Houghton's Hindle Wakes is a microcosmic play that explores macrocosmic issues. The setting of two domestic locations in a provincial Lancashire mill town provides an anachronistic p…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Many of us seated (and indeed standing) could not have predicted the significance of watching Macbeth in the Globe on the eve of 23 June 2016. Shakespeare's play exploring political turbulen…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 16, 2016
The gadulka. What is a gadulka? I'm still not sure even as I leave The Drayton Arms Theatre after having watching an hour long monologue that intends to explore the traditional Bulgarian fol…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 31, 2016
When one sees an advert for an experimental theatre festival, it is always uncertain how "experimental" the pieces presented will be. Will they merely explore new possibilities within the re…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Devilish!'s writer and lyricist Chris Burgess claims that his most recent work takes inspiration from a John Ruskin quotation, HG Wells' The Wonderful Visit, and Bruegel's famous depiction o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:45PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 7, 2016
I defy anyone to enter Shakespeare's Globe and not experience a sense of wonder, tradition and dramatic energy. As I sit down on my wooden bench in the middle gallery and gaze around the cir…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:37AM[SHARE]Friday, May 6, 2016
Frontier Productions is a recently founded theatre company with a unique mission statement. It aims to open doors for actors in their sixties and seventies, and provide creative theatre role…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Opera. A genre that in contemporary society many view as restricted for musical experts and the elite upper classes. However, The Royal Opera's current reimagining of Wagner's Tannhäuser (1…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:13PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 24, 2016
As I enter the main space at the Rich Mix Theatre, Shoreditch, loud Balkan music permeates the auditorium. There's an open bar in the theatre space, and an infamous portrait of Shakespeare i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:08PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 17, 2016
In a recent, controversial statement, contemporary choreographer Akram Khan declared that we should not encourage rising numbers of female choreographers "for the sake of it." Many people ha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 13, 2016
I'm sitting in the Union Theatre bar with a glass of Merlot, and within a matter of seconds I am transported back to the Roaring Twenties. Members of the ensemble cast burst into the foyer, …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 26, 2016
Whether it's the traditional fairytale by the Brothers Grimm, or Disney's 1937 film adaptation, we are all familiar with the classic narrative of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. What many …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:56PM[SHARE]Monday, March 21, 2016
Women Redressed is a festival of theatrical brainstorming, combining the work of up-and coming-playwrights with that of more established writers. It is a programme of nine works, qualifying …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:01PM[SHARE]As the lights dim in the intimate venue of Camden People's Theatre, three actors enter the space and stare at the audience. Faint smirks are visible on their faces as they subsequently revea…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 16, 2016
As we enter the theatre, a performer dressed in chorister's robes repetitively enters and exits the performance space, on each entry lighting a candle placed on a centre-stage lectern. He co…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:14PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 13, 2016
There can be certain scepticism amongst theatre goers surrounding companies or acts that arise as a product of popular television talent competitions, a snobbery that I myself am often guilt…
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