IN CONVERSATION WITH: Anna Morris
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with playwright, comedian and actor Anna Morris ahead of Fringe First winning show in 2024, Son of a Bitch coming to Southwark Playhouse from 26th February to 15th March.
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IN CONVERSATION WITH: Holly Bancroft, Alice Bebber and Ella Hakin
Reading Time: 5 minutesLady’s Fingers, co-written and performed by Ella Hakin and Holly Bancroft, follows three young women navigating the corporate world with a mix of clown, choreography, and comedy. Presented by Penny Drop and produced by Brave Mirror, the show returns after a sold-out run, exploring work-life absurdities with wit and charm. AYP holds this exclusive dialogue with Holly and Ella.
REVIEW: One Punch
Reading Time: 3 minutesI went to see One Punch expecting a story that would really hit home, and it certainly did. The play is only an hour long, but it tells the tale of a night out gone wrong—a night that changes everything.
REVIEW: Animal Farm
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was familiar, as most, with George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ and had seen stage adaptations of it before. It is a story we enjoy to see told again with it’s simplicity but wildly complex meaning.
REVIEW: Macready! Dickens’ Theatrical Friend
Reading Time: 2 minutesWriter and solo performer Mark Stratford portrays the exciting life of William Macready, a Victorian-era stage actor and theatre manager.
REVIEW: 855-For-Truth
Reading Time: 3 minutesEva Hudson’s ‘855-FOR-TRUTH’, directed by Lydia McKinley playing at the Hope Theatre, follows an aspiring but worried young climate scientist and an obsessive yet charming 18-year-old Christian cult member as they navigate through their different life approaches facing the same problem: the world actually ending in 6 days.
REVIEW: Ordinary Madness
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Ordinary Madness is about the beauty in the dirt, the extraordinary in the mundane, the hard shell with the soft centre, about that bluebird in our soul that wants to get out.’
REVIEW: The Value of Names
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘The Value of Names’ tells the gripping story of former actor Benny (Jeremy Kareken) who has to confront the man who ended his career, Leo (Tim Hardy) as his daughter Norma (Katherine Lyle), also an actor, is met with the choice about whether to work under the creative direction of her father’s nemesis.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Toby Olie
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe world premiere of There’s A Bear On My Chair at Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall is on Wednesday 19 February. Adapted from Ross Collins’ beloved books and directed by Toby Olié (Spirited Away, Animal Farm, War Horse), this playful production brings Bear and Mouse to life through captivating puppetry. A Youngish Perspective holds the dialogue with Toby Olie, the director.
REVIEW: Testo
Reading Time: 2 minutesTesto is the latest work by Wet Mess, a drag artist, cabaret performer, and movement director, and is a surreal and dark exploration of masculinity, femininity, the trans man experience, and bathing in butter.