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‘What nightmare stops Lord Byron dozing? The ghastly sound of bookshops closing.’ Title: Dawn of the Unread Author: Various Genre: Comic book, Gothic, parody Publisher: Spokesman Press Published: 2016 Nottingham has had a long-running literary history, as shown by its status as a UNESCO city of Literature. Utilising the...

Chaotic, comical and self-aware, The Super Awesome Happy Fun-Time Trick Performance by Ben Webber is an absurdist piece of comedy that is reminiscent of meta-theatrical works such as The Play That Goes Wrong, where the boundaries of the set, the audience, and the characters themselves are constantly broken down....

The festive season gaining on us with such rapidity means one thing in theatre: the pantomime is back! This year, in response to the current Broadway and West End spectacle, The Nottingham Playhouse presents Aladdin as this year’s production. In Peking, China, a young boy, Aladdin (Danielle Corlass), comically...

The Amateur Dramatics Society, UoN’s resident crew of theatrically-inclined medics, rarely disappoint with their annual Medic’ Musical, and this year was no exception! Expect laughs, impressive singing, and unexpected acrobatics in their rendition of the Pirates of Penzance, on show at the Nottingham Arts Theatre until the 26th November....