• 5 Favorites from #LiteraryCakes

    With the new series of The Great British Bake Off starting this week, fans have taken to Twitter en-masse to celebrate. Amidst the tweeting frenzy of Mary Berry fans all over the UK, @RSLiterature (Royal Society of Literature), in a stroke of genius, managed to combine the love of...
  • The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas @ Theatre Royal

    Depicting the unlikely friendship between two young boys at the heart of the Holocaust, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas follows German born Bruno as he and his family are relocated to the outskirts of Auschwitz after his soldier father is deployed there. Meeting at one of the now...
  • The Full Monty @ Theatre Royal

    As the title would suggest, Simon’s Beaufoy’s adaptation of his 1997 film is a bare all production – in every sense of the word. Hilarious and heart-warming, the comedy hits the stage in a larger than life way (in some cases quite literally!) and reduced myself and the rest...
  • Arts Room 101 – Pretentious Poetry

    We’ve all been there at one time or another – whether it’s staring blankly at a GCSE anthology or sitting with your head in your hands in Hallward library, we have faced a poem that makes no conceivable sense. Staring incredulously at the mass of adjectives, desperately trying to find...
  • Jon Richardson @ Theatre Royal Concert Hall

    Anyone who is a fan of 8 out of 10 Cats or has glanced at the comedy scene anytime in the last few years will be familiar with Jon Richardson’s brilliant brand of comedy. Infamously self-depreciating, cynical and pernickety to the last degree, Jon is basically an old man...