With the Durham Drama Festival in full swing, showcasing a series of student new-writing pieces, there seems like no greater time to reflect on this crucial part of theatre-making. For there is, quite simply, no play without its playwright.
Consistent new-writing is key to ensuring that the future of
theatre reflects the…
December has arrived. The Christmas season upon us. And with
it comes a theatre season up and down the country full of pantomime and farce.
The Assembly Rooms itself is joining in the fun, as we host Ooook! Productions’
The Magistrate this week.
Of course, both of these theatrical forms have a wealth of tradition and…
Gliding over the County Durham hills on the 20A bus on my first day of the West Rainton Primary School Drama Club Outreach Project, I felt some amount of trepidation. Having little experience with primary school children, I feared the worst, I feared chaos. And there was chaos.
Creative chaos
But not chaos in the negative…
It’s an old adage that no man (or woman, I hasten to add) is an island. Equally, though, sometimes it’s really easy to feel isolated. Even when you’re surrounded by friends, moving to University is nevertheless a total change of environment. As the festive season draws near, homesickness may well creep up on you when you…
The Durham Revue is the only student comedy sketch troupe in Durham. It’s older than you, unless you were born before 1974, [in which case, congratulations], therefore making it really quite special. In the 45ish years of its existence, The Durham Revue has boasted many members including the immensely famous Neil’s…
[Or: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Em]
The beauty of Durham is that, as unassuming as its pastoral beauty may make it appear, it could never be accused of being predictable. Call it what you will – initiative, invention, or simple quirkiness – the ingenuity and originality expressed by the University community has…
For the 43rd year in a row over 120 students have come together to produce the Durham Drama Festival. From the 4 -11 February the student theatre community of Durham will perform nine full length shows and five extracts, all written, directed, teched and performed by students. The annual Drama Festival is a wonderful…
Durham Student Theatre (DST) collectively puts on about 90 shows from 26 individual theatre companies annually. Chances are, during your time in Durham, you will have gone to watch at least one of these entirely student produced and performed shows. The talented cast, aided by lighting design and sound effects, would have left…
Seussical, the Broadway and West End musical, is a show based on the magical tales of Dr Seuss. It features the world-renowned characters in a brand-new story, using Dr Seuss’s infamous signature style. DULOG (Durham University Light Opera Group) has chosen to take on Seussical as the Gala production; the biggest show of the…
As a member of the Durham Festival of the Arts (DFoA) committee, I have spent the last few weeks surrounded by the plans for the various concerts and shows which will be staged during this year’s festival. As we’ve been meeting once a week since October to discuss and plan the festival, it is crazy to think that it is now…
