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For the past 100 years, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery has played host to an ‘open-style’ exhibition, aiming to “throw a spotlight onto the many committed and talented artists that live and work in our community”. The biggest Fine Art and Contemporary Art prize in the Midlands returns...

Emotionally charged and curiously optimistic, The Pride by Alexi Kaye Campbell explores the dynamics of relationships fraught with repressed emotions and unspoken words. The play constantly switches between two storylines – one set in 1958, where homosexuality is still very much criminalized, and the other in 2008, where progress...

A comedic opera centering around the wedding gift of a silver rose, Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss has a complex plot, which involves a love affair between an older woman and her young lover, an arranged marriage between a baron and a blushing bride, and a network of webs that interlink the characters. Whimsical...

Marguerite Humeau is a French artist living in London, whose work focuses on the links that can be formed between worlds. Her work has been featured among many celebrated collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Serpentine Gallery and the MoMA. This, her first solo exhibition in...

With minimalistic set and lighting designs, Contractions relies on the strong performances of the two leads and Mike Bartlett’s darkly humorous script to create a thoroughly engaging, enjoyable narrative regarding individual privacy and freedom in the corporate world. For the entire play, the set consists of little more than...

As it fast approaches Christmas, I can think of nothing better than settling down and enjoying one of M.R. James’ best, and certainly my favourite, ghost story – Oh Whistle and I’ll Come to You. Harking back to the days where M. R. James himself would read his stories...

Closer is a play about four individuals who form different sets of couples. Set in 1990s London, it is a tale of lust, love, deception and betrayal that at times is disturbing in its portrayal of what people can do to each other but is also simultaneously a reminder...