Sam Young

With four actors playing one single character, Claire Dowie’s Why Is John Lennon Wearing A Skirt? is a personal drama unlike any other. Taking the form of a single dramatic monologue, Dowie’s play explores the life of a girl struggling to grow up under societal pressure to conform to...

Kicking off the New Theatre’s in-house season, Stef Smith’s drama Swallow follows the physical and emotional journeys of three individuals struggling to come to terms with the direction their lives are taking. On the afternoon of the first run, Impact sat down with the cast and crew to discuss...

Inspired by the hit 1992 musical comedy, Sister Act tells the story of Deloris Van Cartier, a club singer who witnesses her mobster boyfriend commit a murder. Fleeing to the police, Deloris is placed under witness protection and winds up in a nunnery, run by the formidable Mother Superior....

One Man, Two Guvnors is a big, heart-warming comedy upon which to end the in-house season. Having run at both the West End and Broadway, Richard Bean’s highly-acclaimed play tells the story of the lovably hopeless Francis Henshall (played by James Curling), a man who finds himself in the...

Perhaps the most unusual production of the season, Timon/Titus takes the key themes of Shakespeare’s classical tragedies Timon of Athens and Titus Andronicus and propels them into a contemporary spotlight. Focusing on the highly relevant themes of debt, family, tradition, race, gender, cultural exploitation, and of course revenge, the...

Curiously abstract and startlingly original, Timon/Titus is a savage exploration of the themes of debt and guilt. Based loosely around the Shakespearean tragedies Timon of Athens and Titus Andronicus, this new play presents the audience with a series of stark moral questions, each depicted through multiple layers of outright...

As November comes to a close, some of you may have noticed the expected increase of “in your face” facial hair on the men on and off UoN’s campus. The reason behind it all is the yearly tradition of Movember, a way to raise awareness and funds for the...