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Ahead of the Lakeside Arts Centre’s latest production of Oedipus, Impact Arts spoke to director, Martin Berry, and assistant director, Laura Jayne Bateman. We asked them a series of questions about festivals, flashbacks and favourite scenes. Why did you choose the Steven Berkoff version of Oedipus? Martin Berry: I read...

For the final production of this semester, Nottingham New Theatre are presenting Frank McGuinness’ Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me. Impact Arts spoke to director Will Berrington and production assistant Becca David about insanity, hostages and survival, to get their perspective of putting on such a challenging play. Can you tell us what the play...

This week, Impact Arts spoke to Tom Proffitt, the director of the Nottingham New Theatre’s next production, David Hare’s Skylight, to chat about the pressure of putting on such a beloved play, class differences and complex characters. Can you describe what the play is about? Skylight follows the story of...

Impact Arts caught up with the director, Laura Jayne Bateman, and producer, Aneesa Kaleem, of Nottingham New Theatre’s latest production, the explosive The Thrill of Love. We asked them a series of questions to find out all about the play’s thrills, spills and kills! Can you tell us what...

Gilbert & Sullivan’s works are renowned as some of the most popular comic operas around, so much so that here at UoN, we have a society dedicated to them! Impact Arts interviewed Ruby Hawley, the director of the Gilbert & Sullivan Society’s newest production, and got the inside gossip on H.M.S. Pinafore. After...

With the new year comes the promise of an exciting new production from UoN’s award-winning musical theatre society, Musicality. Impact Arts caught up with the director of Anything Goes, Lucy Castle, to get the inside gossip on the show:  After the success of last year’s The Producers, why have...

After receiving his Physics Degree, University of Nottingham alumni Douggie McMeekin trained at LAMDA and is now receiving his professional stage debut as one of the Lost Boys in Ella Hickson’s Wendy & Peter Pan at the Royal Shakespeare Company. I talked to him about his time at UoN,...