Technician Impossible!
Yes, yes, it’s time to put the 60-strong team of tech crew truly to the test! We give them a mission and they have 24 hours to complete something utterly brilliant, death-defying, universal laws of...
View ArticleGlen Walford – Musical Theatre
Musical theatre; it’s like Marmite, you either love it or hate it, though it is admittedly harder to either buy in bulk or throw across a room in incandescent rage. Luckily I fall on the side of the...
View ArticleIf I Wrote The Plays
I was telling a friend how excited I was about seeing The Memory of Water. The excitement, I explained, was because I assumed it was based on the book I had read of the same title. Only the book I had...
View ArticleSTACY and rape: some thoughts
Today’s discussion with Fresh Loaf Productions brought up those unpleasant questions that crouch in Jack Thorne’s play, Stacy, like ugly and unnerving spiders. Rob, a convincing and seemingly normal...
View ArticleNSDF: Pop-Up Shop
21:30-23:00 All week, closing early on Friday NSDF T-Shirts : £5 Royal Shakespeare Company Bags : £5 A wide range of theatre books, including contemporary plays, audition speeches, Methuen Drama,...
View ArticleTatty Themes, But Wonderful Tales
All is not well for the inhabitants of Salty Shores, but that’s just fine for the audience watching. Tatty Tales is a deliciously delightful mixture of the macabre and the comical that creates its...
View ArticleTechnician Impossible: Gobo Protocol
Yeah, we fucked up. In the mad rush to finish Thursday’s issue, Noises Off is sorry to say that we overlooked setting a mission for the Technical Team. We suppose it’s lucky that no one actually relies...
View ArticleFreedom of Speech
Deputy editors Catherine Love and Tim Bano respond to Walrus’ show Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, about the difficulties of communication and the restriction of speech, with only 140 words each....
View ArticleWhat Lies Beneath
Pushing theatrical boundaries is a concept we all hope to come across when attending a student drama festival. Luckily Wastwater, created by The Human Animal, started to enter this brave, striking...
View ArticleThree Honour the 56
FYSA Theatre’s The 56 is a thoughtful and poignant verbatim production about the Bradford City fire of 1985. It is made strong by the assured, confident and rooted acting of all three cast members,...
View ArticleKatie Plopkins – My NSDF Diary (Day 4)
If there’s anything I hate more than students, it’s drama students. They’re too full of themselves, too opinionated. And, most of the time, they’re idiots. Take today’s discussion. Although I was...
View Article#angry
Andy Warhol says you shouldn’t read what they say about you, but measure it in inches, so I’ll keep this short. A group of white middle class people in need of a shower and a good night’s sleep using...
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