Sophie Hunt

Impact jumped at the opportunity to review a poetry collection by one of the university’s very own students and contributors to the magazine. Written by third year English student Chloe Erin for her dissertation, this debut zine, Seasonally Affected, includes themes of love, friendship and mental health. The collection...

Putting on a Shakespearean production is no easy task, least of all Macbeth, which is one of his greatest and most well-known tragedies. Despite this, director Ed Wiseman-Eggleton was up for the challenge, creating an innovative adaptation that kept the audience gripped from start to finish. With themes of murder, madness, love and kingship, the play is provocative even...

Impact had the pleasure of chatting with director, Nat Henderson, ahead of the opening night of NNT’s latest in-house show, NSFW. Written by Lucy Kirkwood, the story follows main character Sam as he gets a job at the lad’s magazine, Doghouse, and catastrophe soon unfolds. When inquiring how she...

Dot To Dot is an annual festival that tours Manchester, Bristol and Nottingham over May Bank Holiday weekend. With more than 200 local acts across these locations, the festival celebrates all kinds of musical genres in various venues and bars. Impact had the pleasure of going along for the day in Nottingham and getting a taste of all the action.  After...

After a booze-heavy Easter with my home friends and having gone on three nights out in the first week back at uni (bad decision, I know), I vowed that I would do a two-week sober challenge over exam season. All my friends and family members who I shared this...

So, exam season is upon us. Your days are filled with coffee, cramming and crises (whether in Rock City or otherwise). You spend hours on end trying to bag yourself a table in Hallward. Your eyes hurt from staring at words on your laptop screen for too long. Sometimes...

Based on the novel by Douglas Adams, this play tells the story of Richard, who alongside his detective friend, Dirk Gently, embarks upon a crazy quest to uncover his boss’ murderer. The investigation soon unravels when Richard makes an unlikely discovery, and so the humour begins. Ahead of the...