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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...

The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Juanjo Mena, performed a selection of three pieces which comprised of varied styles. The first was a symphonic poem, Bed0rich Smetana’s Vltava from Má vlast, followed by Belá Bartók’s Violin Concerto No.2 and concluding with Antonín Dvorák’s Symphony No.9 in E minor. Bedrich...

I was more than a little intrigued to discover whether the opening night of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men at the Theatre Royal, endlessly studied by bored fifteen year olds around the UK, would be able to breathe new life into the novella.  With the designers going to...