• Ctrl – Shift – Curate – Interview with Legacy Russell

    Business Insider recently named Legacy Russell as one of their coolest women in UK tech. Hailing from New York’s East Village, Russell now lives in London, and works at the online platform Artsy. Impact Arts’ Aaron Tej recently spoke with Russell, also the founding theorist behind Glitch Feminism, about the way we interact...
  • The Government Inspector @ Nottingham Playhouse

    Written in 1836, Nikolai Gogol’s work of political satire examines the absurdity and corruption of Imperial Russia. The play follows an unethical mayor, along with his equally immoral officials, attempting to prepare their provincial town for a visit from a government inspector. However, the inspector in question is travelling...
  • Gangsta Granny @ Theatre Royal

    It’s testament to his genius that the brain behind Vicky Pollard, Bubbles Devere and Daffyd – the only gay in the village – is also able to write one of the most successful children’s books in the country. Since departing from the shores of Little Britain, David Walliams has...
  • Any Means Necessary @ Nottingham Playhouse

    In 2008, the Metropolitan Police shut down one of its undercover units known as the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS). The individuals of the SDS were tasked with infiltrating highly dangerous activist groups and relaying useful information to prevent heinous acts of criminality such as sit ins and acoustic covers...
  • Lost Boy, Found – Full Interview

    After receiving his Physics Degree, University of Nottingham alumni Douggie McMeekin trained at LAMDA and is now receiving his professional stage debut as one of the Lost Boys in Ella Hickson’s Wendy & Peter Pan at the Royal Shakespeare Company. I talked to him about his time at UoN,...
  • Lost Boy, Found

    It didn’t ever seem fair to me that while her brothers were off gallivanting round the enchanted island of Neverland, getting in trouble and general swashbuckling silliness, Wendy never really had much fun. Ella Hickson’s adaptation of J.M Barrie’s 1911 classic, has given a refreshing and contemporary lease of...
  • West @ Nottingham New Theatre

    There was a time, before the emergence of the single origin pour over and pop up Peruvian beard salon, that getting smashed in Hoxton had a very different meaning.  The East End of London in the 1960s, as seen through the eyes of Octopussy’s General Orlov (writer Stephen Berkoff),...