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London’s Top 10 family-friendly theatres
Continuing our London Theatre Guides series, we’re celebrating half-term by highlighting some of the capital’s most welcome and exciting venues for younger audiences. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged activity, art, baby, backstage, best, birthday party, broadwayworld, cafe, child, children, class, dancing, education, family, family friendly, film, free, fun, garden, half term, holiday, kids, london, music, musical, national theatre, orchestra, parent, play, playground, puppet, puppetry, school, show, singing, song, theatre, theatre guide, toddler, top 10, tour, toys, workshop, young, young audience, youth theatre
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BWW Interview: Sally Cookson
The director discusses her adaptation of Jane Eyre, which is returning to the National Theatre. Read my full BroadwayWorld interview here
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Tagged acting, actor, adaptation, book tickets, bristol old vic, broadwayworld, charlotte bronte, cheap tickets, children, christmas, deal, devised, devising, director, discount, drama, family, film, gender balance, interview, jane eyre, kids, lamda, madeleine worrall, mike akers, movie, mr rochester, nadia clifford, national theatre, orson welles, play, sale, sally cookson, save, the lion the witch and the wardrobe, theatre, tom morris, tour, visit london, west yorkshire playhouse, young
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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ – The Musical, Menier Chocolate Factory
Britain’s most beloved diarist (give or take a Bridget Jones) comes to London in chamber musical form in a new adaptation created with the late Sue Townsend’s blessing. Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary’s version, tweaked since its premiere run in Leicester in 2015, should … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, broadwayworld, children, family, holiday, jake brunger, kids, love, luke sheppard, menier chocolate factory, musical, parents, pippa cleary, review, romance, school, sue townsend, the secret diary of adrian mole, young
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BWW Interview: Madani Younis
The Bush Theatre’s Artistic Director discusses its redevelopment and future plans. Read my full BroadwayWorld interview here
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Tagged art, artist, arts council, black lives black words, black lives matter, broadwayworld, building, bush theatre, children, community, culture, diversity, education, government, interview, kids, local council, london, madani younis, new, play, project, reopening, schools, shepherd's bush, subsidy, theatre, tickets, work, writer, young, youth
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Young audiences, Fun Competition and The Last Tango
My articles in the November issue of Dancing Times magazine, out now: Young at heart Family audiences are becoming a priority for dance companies and creatives The Last Tango Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace bring their final show to the West End Stepping Out Debuts … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged audience, ballet, balletboyz, ballroom, bbc, birmingham royal ballet, book, broadcast, children, christmas, cinema, dance, dancing, dancing times, family, Flavia Cacace, jasmin vardiomon, kids, magazine, matthew bourne, music video, pinocchio, review, sadlers wells, same sex ballroom, same sex dance, scd, screen, stage, stepping out, strictly, strictly come dancing, strictly speaking, the last tango, theatre, tv, uk fun competition, west end, young
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Top 10 London Family Shows
Struggling to fill the school holidays, and no luck getting Cursed Child tickets? Fear not – there are plenty of fantastic London theatre options for family audiences. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here
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Tagged 946, audience, book, broadwayworld, bugsy malone, child, children, family, harry potter and the cursed child recommended age, horrible histories, james and the giant peach, kids, london, matilda, musical, running time, stage, stig of the dump, the gruffalo, the railway children, the scarecrows wedding, the secret garden, theatre, west end, young
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Martyr, Unicorn Theatre
Following a dangerously selective reading of a religious text, 15-year-old Benjamin has adopted a fundamentalist doctrine that espouses misogynist, homophobic and puritanical views and, at its extreme, violence. Neither his mum nor his teachers know how to handle him. The … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, bible, children, christian, crucifixion, drama, extremism, extremist, faith, fundamentalist, gay, god, homophobic, homosexual, kid, london, man, martyr, mother, muslim, parent, play, puberty, puritanical, quran, religion, religious, review, school, sex, sexist, teacher, teenager, theatre, unicorn theatre, vicar, violent, woman, young
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Ten great plays set in summer
To coincide with the opening of Three Days in The Country, Patrick Marber’s new adaption of Turgenev, I’ve rounded up 10 other great plays set in the summer, from bucolic romance and adolescent yearning to fiery conflict and family combustion. Read my … Continue reading
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Tagged 10, A Midsummer Night's Dream, a streetcar named desire, adaptation, adolescent, all my sons, american dream, arthur miller, august osage county, best, chekhov, child, childhood, comedy, court, drama, Eugene O’Neill, family, fourth of july, hay fever, heat, hot, independence day, jury, law, love, lust, magic, Mark Gatiss, may day, meryl streep, national theatre, noel coward, parent, patrick marber, play, romance, romeo and juliet, russia, russian, sex, shakespeare, simon russell beale, summer, summer solstice, sun, teenager, tennessee williams, the cherry orchard, theatre, three days in the country, top 10, tragedy, trial, turgenev, twelve angry men, young, youth
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Listed: Precocious Writers
Once upon a time… Storytelling is an integral part of all human cultures, and a central pillar of an enlightened education. Some children get the hang of it quickly – they are, as the phrase has it, natural storytellers. This … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged anne frank, book, bronte, caitlin moran, child, children, daisy ashford, diary, dorothy straight, drama, how to build a girl, how to talk to girls, Jane Austen, john kennedy toole, kid, Malala Yousafzai, novel, novelist, play, playwright, published, royal court, teenager, the arts desk, the chronicles of narmo, the young visitors, theartsdesk, theatre, virginia woolf, writer, writing, young
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Worthy but thin tale of broken Britain
Eighteen months on, and Ed Miliband is still intoning “Cost of living crisis” in the hope of persuading disillusioned voters that someone at Westminster understands their plight. Yet the gulf between rhetoric and experience seems ever widening, making art that … Continue reading
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Tagged arrest, changing state, child, cost of living crisis, crime, drama, drugs, ed miliband, election, ethnic minority, hen and chickens, house, housing, islington, islington gazette, local council, london, low income, millennial, north london, parent, play, politician, politics, poverty, pregnancy, prison, race, review, riots, singing, statistics, talent contest, teenager, theatre, unemployment, westminster, young, youth
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