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  Impact Arts’ Tom Proffitt spoke to three more of the cast of Nottingham Lakeside Arts’ Blue Stockings to find out the behind the scenes gossip. Can you describe which character in Blue Stockings you play and how they are/like differ from your own character and your own university experience?...

This production of Irvine Welsh’s infamous novel immediately immerses the audience in its vibrancy and intensity. As soon as the audience enters the room, even before finding their seats, the tone  is made clear. The cast members use the stage as a night club, dancing up to you as...

Impact Arts interviews Kate O’Gorman, Emma Pallett and Louise Harris, all starring in Lakeside Arts and Nottingham New Theatre’s collaborative production Blue Stockings. Can you describe which character in Blue Stockings you play and how they are like/differ from your own character and your own university experience? Kate: I play Tess...

Impact Arts spoke to director Martin Berry of the Lakeside and New Theatre’s new collaboration, Blue Stockings. Summarise briefly what Blue Stockings is about. Blue Stockings is a story set in 1896, at Cambridge University, at a time where men would graduate as we know today; and the few women...

In the year 1938, Austria faced annexation into a torturous Nazi Germany, all for the sake of forming the “greater Germany”. It was a time when war would soon rage and leave scars upon millions. A time where every country had to be fully aware of any and all...

Howl’s Moving Castle is a charming and nostalgic novel that I feel is highly underrated and has been forgotten in the years since it was originally published in 1986. Fancy yourself an arrogant wizard that changes hair like the seasons and has an ego that rivals the size of...

In response to our recent controversial article, which asked if Shakespeare is that big a deal any more, Impact Arts’ Esther has a very decided opinion… For the ‘Credulous Fools’ Who Dare Challenge Shakespeare: This ‘upstart crow’ that you refer to Whose reputation you’ve marred Wrote 154 sonnets for his true...