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Ambergate Reservoir is unlike anything I have seen at The Nottingham New Theatre. The production fuses elements of comedy and suspenseful drama to create a show that showcases director Emma White’s wonderful script-writing and Rachel Angeli’s completely engrossing acting. Christine (Rachel Angeli), a middle-aged mother separated from her husband,...

Performing three pieces composed early in the twentieth century, conducted passionately by Gergely Madaras, The BBC Symphony Orchestra evoked the fervour, the humour and all the varied feeling of orchestral music penned in that period. They did an astounding job of conveying the rich life of their main piece,...

Human relationships are never simple. University students are particularly familiar with the challenges and changes one endures when leaving home to live independently in a new environment with an entirely different set of people. Skylight, amongst other things, is a theatrical commentary on the complexity and depth of relationships...

One does not expect to go to the opera to find a huge wooden box being serenaded by a middle-aged Don, but this is what the audience will find when they see Cosi Fan Tutte. This opera straddles contemporaneity whilst keeping its nostalgia alive. It succeeds in producing a...

The University of Nottingham’s Gilbert and Sullivan Society showed off their hard work and talent in a production of H.M.S. Pinafore at Nottingham High School last week. With a light and airy set, featuring two wooden spiral staircases on either side of the stage, the audience felt as though...

Entering the circular space, the audience were at once aware of and mesmerised by the breaking of the fourth wall. As the actors blended with the standing audience, we were all transported on the humorous, emotive and thought-provoking journey of Charlie Gordon, as he undergoes experimental brain surgery only...

Upon entering the room, it was clear that the stage was well and truly set for the brilliant drama about to unfold. With the audience placed on opposite sides of the stage, we became well and truly the jury giving our verdict on the moral dilemma that Ruth, and...