Olivia Rook

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s touring production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with a different, regional cast playing the Mechanicals and fairy train at each new location, is a truly bold move in theatre-making. This Play for the Nation, celebrating the work of Shakespeare 400 years after his death, is...

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...

Like most sixteen-year-olds across the country, I studied An Inspector Calls at GCSE level, and four years ago I saw the play performed on stage in London.  Walking into the Theatre Royal this evening, therefore, I felt more than prepared to turn my critical eye towards the performance.  Although...

Feminism. Perhaps one of the most misused and distorted terms in the English dictionary, but also one of the most powerful.  As a woman at university, living, breathing and learning among some of the country’s most educated young people, why is it this is still a term to be...

Impact Arts caught up with director Tom Proffitt and producer Darcey Graham to chat about their upcoming play ‘The Glass Menagerie’ at the Nottingham New Theatre, to find out whether they’re remaining true to the direction of Tennessee Williams and how they’ve coped with the challenges of the production....

Amid recent controversy concerning the discovery of Harper Lee’s long lost manuscript, I leapt at the opportunity to review the novelist’s first, and only published work, on the Theatre Royal stage. Director Timothy Sheader’s ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ is everything the avid reader can hope for as it brings...

Entering the theatre with the knowledge that I was about to watch a play involving the persecution of homosexuals, I expected to leave feeling sickened. And I can’t lie, I still felt a strong urge to hurl abuse at the play’s cruel ringleaders, the vicious Nazi SS officers played...