Dramasoc Presents: Freak
Sex is undisputably a political tool at the behest of men to denigrate, fetishise, and codify female bodies in order to put some double...
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- Dec 10, 2017
- 4 min
The Secret Theatre at The Globe
By Catherine Kirkham-Sandy As a second year student with deadlines ominously marching over the horizon, Sir Francis Walsingham’s vast...
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- Nov 24, 2017
- 3 min
Dramasoc Presents: Doctor Faustus
By Catherine Kirkham-Sandy Students make a lot of bad decisions, but Dr Faustus, a scholar at Wittenberg, really takes the biscuit. And...
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- Nov 11, 2017
- 2 min
Dramasoc Presents: The Victorian in the Wall
By Bertie Ford To say that Will Adamsdale’s play is of the unconventional sort would be a gross understatement, but in adapting this...
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- Oct 27, 2017
- 3 min
YSP’s A Winter’s Tale
By Nayomi Karthigesu Directed by Natalie Rose Quatermass, the York Shakespeare Project brings to stage Shakespeare’s 32nd play, A...
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- Oct 27, 2017
- 3 min
Preview: Bronzehead Theatre’s Dracula
By Ellie Ward Halloween is nearly upon us. Pumpkins are waiting to be carved, daylight hours are diminishing with frightening frequency,...
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- Oct 26, 2017
- 2 min
Amphibious at YTR’s TakeOver Festival
‘About walls’ would be selling Amphibious a bit short on numerous levels. As part of TakeOver Festival 2017, it technically was about the...
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- Oct 20, 2017
- 2 min
Squabbling House presents: Constellations
By Lucia Rimini ‘Imagine rolling the dice 6,000 times’. This line, delivered by Marianne, one of the two central characters in Nick...
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- Oct 20, 2017
- 4 min
Dramasoc Presents: 4.48 Psychosis
By Katie Sharp Renowned for being a script not touched with a bargepole by even the most experienced of directors, the announcement that...
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- Oct 20, 2017
- 3 min
Preview: YTR TakeOver Festival 2017
By George Rayson After the storm brewed in the theatrical community due to recent comments made by Amol Rajan, Nikki Bedi and Giles...
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- Oct 14, 2017
- 3 min
Dramasoc Presents: Playhouse Creatures
By Joe McNeice It seems that in recent times, contemporary plays by young writers have regularly occupied The Barn’s weekend slots....
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- Oct 7, 2017
- 3 min
Dramasoc Presents: The Sugar Syndrome
By Catherine Kirkham-Sandy Returning from a eating disorder clinic, Dani (Sophie Lorraine Parkin) is aimless, hating her school and home...
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- Oct 6, 2017
- 4 min
TFTV Presents: The Crucible
By Ellie Ward As I settled into my seat in TFTV’S black box theatre yesterday evening, I had a flick through the programme that had been...
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- Jul 1, 2017
- 2 min
Much Ado About Nothing
by Harry Elletson Shakespeare’s tales have been told and re-told an incalculable number of times in thousands of different ways. In Not...
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- Mar 1, 2017
- 2 min
Blue Stockings at York Theatre Royal
York Settlement Community Players’ production of Bluestockings, by Jessica Swale, tackles the issue of women’s right to education in a...
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- Feb 2, 2017
- 3 min
Interview: Danse Macabre
So what is Danse Macabre? Danse Macabre is a new theatre company of York University graduates who want to stage innovative shows, with a...
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- Dec 2, 2016
- 2 min
York shakespeare project presents: King Lear
The York Shakespeare Project’s latest production, that of the Bard of Stratford’s most notorious monarch, marches with growing...
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- Nov 25, 2016
- 3 min
Really Really Want at york theatre royal
It was no question that this was a preview show for Vesper Walk as it did leave certain things to be desired. Its relentless spirit,...
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- Nov 24, 2016
- 3 min
Preview: Medea
By Tom Barry “No good or evil. We are all as wretched as each other” Amongst the few Ancient Greek texts to have survived the centuries,...
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- Nov 2, 2016
- 3 min
King Lear at the Grand Opera House
To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth and death, the Royal and Derngate Theatre, Northampton gifted the public with a...
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