Over the past six weeks, A Younger Theatre has been collaborating with the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney (ATYP) to showcase the best new monologue writing from ATYP’s emerging playwright programme, Fresh Ink, to UK audiences. As part of the The Voices Project: Tell It Like It Isn’t, Fresh Ink’s young playwrights wrote [...]

I don’t write ‘nice.’ I don’t write ‘sweet’, I don’t write ‘lovely’. I don’t write ‘a walk in the park’ either. My writing tends to delve deep into the corners of life that people would rather not talk about. And that’s exactly why I’m fascinated by them. If you read through my repertoire you’d see [...]

Last week A Younger Theatre introduced young playwright Joanna Erskine, with the showing of her short film Boot. This week we’re interviewing Erskine, who tells us about her love of writing, her inspiration for Boot and her experience of adapting her monologue into a film. How did you first become involved in writing? Throughout school [...]

Over the past few weeks, A Younger Theatre has been collaborating with the Australian Theatre for Young People’s (ATYP) emerging playwright scheme, Fresh Ink, to present its work to UK audiences. This week’s blog introduces the short film Boot, written by Joanna Erskine, and starring Meegan Warner and Lucy Coleman. Boot – adapted for film [...]