Daniel McVey

Stanley Yelnats is unlucky, a family trait which he puts down to his pig-stealing ancestor. He is so unlucky that he has been arrested for a crime he didn’t commit and sent to a camp from hell. What ensues is a magical, vibrant, almost fablelike adventure spanning over a...

A devised piece of theatre directed by Daniel McVey, Death of the Author is a witty comedy in which a group of literary characters are forced to come to terms with the loss of their creators. The clever concept of the play had me gripped from the get go,...

A play which involves lies being built upon secrets in varying relationships, A Doll’s House accumulates to a moral revelation in which the leading actor transforms from a character comparable to a human doll to one that is cosmopolitan.    The play tells the story of Nora, a woman...

Based on Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 play Et dukkehjem, A Doll’s House is a thought-provoking Scandinavian drama that tears into the domestic realm to expose the cracked relationship between a strikingly traditionalist husband and his free-spirited wife. Set in nineteenth-century Norway, yet holding a striking relevance in the present day,...

Very few fairy tales pose the challenges to staging that The Little Mermaid does, and I must confess I was rather confused as to how a story partially set underwater where the protagonist has a fish’s tail instead of legs would work as a ballet. However, I was wrong...

The 21st June saw the second day of Nottingham’s Student Fringe Festival, with the standard just as high as the previous day. With dance, mime, music and poetry alongside previews for Edinburgh Fringe and much more, it was once again an unmissable day showcasing some of the best that...

On the 20th and 21st of June the Nottingham New Theatre put on the Student Fringe Festival (StuFF), and though it is only in its third year, the programme of performance and art has shown itself to be an unmissable event. Alongside the vegan fast-food stand, Mocky-D’s, serving unbelievably...