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Durham Drama Festival 2021 - Meet the writers (part 3)

By Owen Kennedy, Francesca Haydon-White & Eric Yu

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…

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Durham Drama Festival 2021 - Meet the writers (part 1)

By Olivia Jones, Harry Jenkins & Ryan King

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…

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Bringing 'Frankenstein' to life.

By Jenny Shpeter and Saniya Saraf, Producer and Director of \’Frankenstein\’.

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…

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Theatre through Lockdown: the Rise of the Radio Play

By Olivia Adderley

3rd December 2020

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…

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Inspiring the next generation of women in tech.

By Keerat Thiara

14th October 2020

The impact of technological innovation on our social, political, and economic world is endless. Yet only 5% of leadership positions in technology are held by women. On Wednesday 5 February 2020, I had the pleasure of attending a Women in Tech panel held by the Durham University Women in Business society in collaboration with…

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DUEM attempts a unique 24-hour ‘Ouston Solar Challenge

By Rachel Burstow

3rd October 2020

Durham University Electric Motorsport (DUEM) have achieved some amazing results over the past few years; building our solar-powered car, ‘Ortus’, achieving our best results yet in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2019 and expanding our dedicated team are to name just a few. Last weekend was no exception; we took it upon…

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Swimming all the lakes in the Lake District for EthiopiAid

By James Maclennan

27th August 2020

Cover Image – Recceing Bassenthwaite Lake with views across to Skiddaw with my dad From the 3rd to the 13th of September I plan to swim the length of all 13 of the swimmable lakes in the Lake District, a distance of almost 70km, with my dad in support of EthiopiAid. I don’t really know where I got the idea from. I’m…

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Student Art Prize Winner - Hands of Acceptance

By Alice Stubbings

5th August 2020

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…

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Memories of unusual Graduations!

By Lucy Robinson (& Piglet), James Rodgers and Gillian Gee

30th July 2020

Lucy Robinson & ‘Piglet’, Collingwood College, I graduated in 2000 with a BA in Theology and was awarded my degree by Peter Ustinov who was Chancellor at the time. Also attending the ceremony, hidden up my huge black sleeve, was my toy Piglet. Piglet had been present at all my exams, had sat with me as I…

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Volunteering Online for Summer in the City 2020

By Seraphina Monson

17th July 2020

Summer in the City festival After finishing my online exams on 1st June, I dreaded the lull in productivity that comes after revising intensely for weeks, and began looking for something worthwhile to do. Since all the end-of-year and graduation celebrations had been postponed, I had more spare time in June than I’d…