• Poet’s Corner: A Response to the Poem by Shelley Entitled ‘To Harriet’

    What is it with these husbands and wives who after so long stop sleeping side-by-side and trade their marriage vows for their cyanide, a head-in-an-oven, a pocket full of stones and their husbands weep for a week and call it pride and say how She warded off the world...
  • Femininity, Violence and Cinema: Interview with Louise Orwin

    Louise Orwin’s piece of feminist experimental theatre, ‘A Girl and A Gun’, recently ran at Nottingham Playhouse. We spoke to her about the meaning behind her work and how it cleverly intertwines with film-making. Can you tell us a little about your hit show A Girl and A Gun? What makes...
  • Socialism, Jokes and The Red Shed: Interview with Mark Thomas

    In anticipation of his upcoming show at Uni Park’s own Lakeside Arts Centre, Impact Arts spoke to Mark Thomas about Edinburgh Fringe success, aversion to one-liners and having utmost respect for miners.  So Mark, what or where exactly is this “red shed”, and why is it so important to you as...
  • Roald Dahl at 100: The Story Behind the Name

    If you went to a British school at any point in your life, chances are you probably read your fair share of Roald Dahl’s work during your studies, be it James and the Giant Peach, The Witches, or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Now, the author behind these classic...
  • Arts Investigates: Arts And Dementia

    Dementia is an “umbrella term” describing a set of symptoms including memory loss and difficulties with thinking, problem-solving or language. It is often the result of brain damage caused by certain diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s dementia is the most common type of dementia, and is a progressive disease...
  • Let’s Art-Iculate #11: Can Art Exist Without Money?

    In our currently volatile global economy, a high-risk investment such as art can be seen as a burden. As an investment it is illiquid, opaque, unregulated, has high transaction costs, is at the mercy of erratic public taste and creates short-lived trends according to Deloitte’s art investment division, which...
  • Forgotten Gems: Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews

    With so many books being published every year, it is so easy to forget about publications from a few decades ago. This is exactly the case with this book! With adverts bombarding us with information about recently published books – think Me Before You by Jojo Moyes – it’s no wonder...