A Case of Malady, M’Lady: Love, Sickness and Desire
Last Thursday was Valentine’s Day, and while many will have been engaged in a day of celebrating love, I wonder just how many will have questioned how being in love…
Culture & Arts
‘I, too’: marginalised American identities in poetry (part two)
All three poems allude to earlier poets. Ginsberg notably references Whitman, ‘the great national poet’. Waggoner states this is not because of Whitman’s connections with patriotism but because he was…
‘I, Too’: marginalised American identities in poetry (part one)
History and narrative are intricately knotted together: narrative is ‘essential to the business of historical explanation’as it allows us to ‘fill in the gaps and provide a smooth flow of…
Review: Skylight
Skylight: 'saturated with the full spectrum of emotion that protrudes from a broken heart'. Isabella Briers reviews Lion Theatre Company's Skylight.
Review: As You Like It
Abbie Crunkhorn reviews BTC's As You Like It: well worth seeing, whether you’re a hardened Shakespeare enthusiast or have watched all of the rom-coms on Netflix and are just in…
A Letter to my Lover
In the wake of Valentine's Day, Stella Baricic finds love in an unusual place.
Review: Hamlet
"a barnstorming presentation of Shakespeare’s work and succeeds in adding sensitively to ongoing discourse over mental health." Harry Jenkins reviews DUCT‘s ‘Hamlet‘.
Alan Turing: the 20th century’s greatest person?
Oliver Scott reviews BBC Two's series 'The Greatest Person of the 20th Century' which placed influential icons of the 20th Century against each other in a competition which proved to…
Reviewing the BBC’s ‘Safe Harbour’, a highly topical and morally riveting drama!
A highly topical and morally riveting drama depicting the collision between Australian friends holidaying on a sailing yacht and a teeming migrant boat with a dead engine in international waters.…
Birdsong
"Can you hear the birdsong up above?"