My incredible journey with ‘Audition’ started when my friend tagged me in a Facebook post, advertising the project. I’ve acted at every opportunity my whole life but never in front of a camera, so when I heard about ‘Audition’ I jumped at the chance to be in a film, and was thrilled to be selected to play the female…
I first read about Music Durham on the University website prior to coming to Durham from Goa in India and knew that I simply had to get involved in it! After a crazy Freshers’ Week (…and first month) full of auditions and call-backs (both music and theatre, since I was apparently very keen to get involved!), I was ultimately…
Durham Drama Festival 2021 - Meet the writers (part 3)
8th February 2021
This is our final blog in the series from our student writers. These new plays are being performed online at this year’s Durham Drama Festival.
Owen Kennedy, author of Plumb
‘I would be lying to you if I said that Plumb explores anything that hasn’t already been explored or was particularly radical. I simply…
Durham Drama Festival 2021 - Meet the writers (part 2)
8th February 2021
Hear from three more of our talented students who have written plays selected for this year’s Durham Drama Festival as it moves entirely online.
Esalan Gates, author of The Lovers
‘The Loversis an adaptation of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, a play of Shakespeare’s that is hilarious…
Durham Drama Festival 2021 - Meet the writers (part 1)
8th February 2021
Radical Voices for Radical Times
Despite national lockdown, the 47th Durham Drama Festival will be going ahead on the week commencing February 1st. The festival will involve nine student written plays showcased in digital forms from pre-recorded Zoom shows to audio dramas, workshops with industry professionals, an open…
Bringing 'Frankenstein' to life.
29th January 2021
Directing is almost always challenging – the spontaneity of theatre is what attracts most of us to it. Directing Frankenstein was a reminder of this sentiment to all of us in the production team. The pandemic brought with it all types of adapted theatre and with it came Radio Theatre; arguably taking a front seat in…
The Durham Original Music & Alumni Network (DOMAN) functions around connection. In-person networking events, jam sessions and showcases created the bedrock of what we offered throughout most of the 2019/20 academic year. When the first spike of COVID-19 emerged in the United Kingdom, therefore, both the existing and incoming…
As we now approach the end of term, theatre in Durham would usually be in full swing but with the second lockdown having fallen upon us, it’s beginning to feel all too reminiscent to the first lockdown that swallowed theatre at the end of last academic year.
When I started that summer, exams finished and eager to establish…
The Durham Revue is the university’s longest running sketch comedy group. Established in 1974, The Revue has been the breeding ground for many comedians including Ed Gamble (Mock The Week, The Off Menu Podcast), Nish Kumar (The Mash Report), Stevie Martin (Massive Dad, The Emily Atack Show), Alex Macqueen (The Inbetweeners)…
The background
Although we don’t formally teach fine art at Durham, almost every college has its own active art society or art group, where students take part in workshops, meet artists, and develop their artistic skills through collaborative creativity.
The Student Art Prize was launched in October 2019 to expand…
