Sam Young

Any First Years wishing to subscribe to the C-card scheme – which allows you to collect free condoms from the Cripp’s Health Clinic – please wait behind after dinner and speak to the nurse at seven. A look goes up and down the long table in the middle of...

This month we focused on the theme of elements. The word ‘element’ can be defined in multiple ways, be it relating to the substances; earth, water, fire, and air or as something more figurative such as the element of surprise. Our poets scope the natural, the behavioural and the...

Recently, the National Gallery announced that it had bought a rare work by the seventeenth-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi for the record sum of £3.6m. Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria (1615) is a striking image of female resilience created at a time when the idea of a woman...

With summer on its way, we thought it only fitting to make the theme of this month’s poetry showcase about nature. And our poets did not disappoint! King in Exile   Minute movements retaining that majesty pertaining to an exiled king, who must take wary webbed steps through hostile...

Banned before it could even be performed in late nineteenth-century England, Oscar Wilde’s drama Salome tells the story of the sexual self-discovery of the biblical princess of Judea. The unwilling object of the attentions of her stepfather, the Tetrarch Herod Antipas, Salome finds herself increasingly obsessed with the figure...

Amongst the myriad productions to hit the New Theatre this season, Quiz Show occupies a unique space. Sharp, witty and horrifyingly relevant, Rob Drummond’s play goes to great lengths to deceive its audience, carrying them through its seemingly innocuous gameshow quirks before whipping away the façade to reveal a...

Set in the dusty wilderness of the first Australian convict colony, Timberlake Wertenbaker’s 1988 drama follows the efforts of young, idealistic Royal Marine officer Ralph Clark to educate the vice-ridden convicts through the medium of theatre. Proposing that the prisoners put on a production of George Farquhar’s Restoration comedy...