Gus Herbert

Coronet Production’s performance of The Pillowman sinisterly explores the moral implications of violence in art and literature whilst injecting the play with surprising amounts of dark humour; staging a piece which seems unnervingly relevant. The play follows writer Katurian through a brutal police interrogation into the similarities between the...

Constellations, written by Nick Payne, is a play that questions concepts of fate and free will, whilst demonstrating the inevitable complexities that come along with any romantic relationship. This is paired with the dramatization of the ‘Quantum Universe’ theory, giving the play an added depth of meaning. As I...

After a week of sex and mothers, New Theatre’s third in-house production transitions to the polar opposite with the first of the season’s classics, Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge. Impact talks to director Gus Herbert to discuss his adaptation of the well-known classic. What’s the play about?...

This week, Impact Arts speaks to Gus Herbert, director of the New Theatre’s latest in-house production: Orphans by Dennis Kelly. Tell us a bit about Orphans – what is the plot? Helen and her husband Danny are having a quiet night in, celebrating the news that Helen is newly pregnant...