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This week, Impact Arts speaks to Gus Herbert, director of the New Theatre’s latest in-house production: Orphans by Dennis Kelly. Tell us a bit about Orphans – what is the plot? Helen and her husband Danny are having a quiet night in, celebrating the news that Helen is newly pregnant...

Unconventionally gripping from the start, How to Breathe written by Mufaro Makubika denotes the political and racial complexities of an immigrant as he weighs the value of his life. The night before his deployment to Afghanistan to fight for the British Army, Joseph Tambo, captivatingly portrayed by Trevor Mugarisanwa,...

In her overwhelmingly successful political comedy, Laura Wade fuses lavishness, gluttony, and downright imbecility with the filthily rich members of the Riot Club – a dining society based upon Oxford University’s Bullingdon Club. With the upcoming General Election in mind, Wade has timed the second production of Posh impeccably....

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...

Following a return to lectures and worrying for future plans, Originals provides a welcome break to the start of Spring term. Disillusionment of Ten O Clock The houses are haunted By white night-gowns. None are green, Or purple with green rings, Or green with yellow rings, Or yellow with...

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...