Emma Lawton

As the title would suggest, Simon’s Beaufoy’s adaptation of his 1997 film is a bare all production – in every sense of the word. Hilarious and heart-warming, the comedy hits the stage in a larger than life way (in some cases quite literally!) and reduced myself and the rest...

Love’s Labour’s Lost is not one of Shakespeare’s most well-known plays. I confess I had no idea of the storyline. However, Christopher Luscombe’s version for the Royal Shakespeare Company soon dispelled any doubts I previously had, the tale unfolding into a riotous, comic and bittersweet two and a half...

One minute I was sitting happily in my seat anticipating the wonders of the performance ahead; the next, the ensemble of Barnum were in the audience; juggling, performing acrobatics, extracting ‘willing’ volunteers to help them with their tricks. Sitting in the middle of a row, I thought I was...

It would be wrong to dismiss tonight’s cast as a ‘great stage of fools’, as I think nerves were partially to blame for the many blundered lines in tonight’s opening performance of King Lear. It would equally be wrong for me to not address the fluffed lines in my...

The final show of the Nottingham New Theatre’s autumn season is upon us, so Impact Arts returns for the last time this term to talk to Gus Herbert and Matt Standen, director and producer of Shakespeare’s King Lear. Firstly, can you describe the plot of ‘King Lear’ for those...

It’s the final week of term, which means it’s time for the final show of the Nottingham New Theatre’s Fringe season. This week, Impact Arts joins Professor Harry Lavelle, a character in the musical puppet show The Adventures of Anne Marie du Bourbon, written by Chris Trueman and Jack Solloway, directed by...

As the sound of demonic laughter rang through the auditorium, we knew we were in for a treat. As the lights came up around the source of the noise, Nick Jeffrey (Gorge Mastromas) could be seen wiping sprawls off a blackboard whilst hysterically laughing, before slowly tramping to the...