“Post-truth”, the word of the year 2016, was actually coined by playwright Steve Tesich back in 1992, so it’s a fitting and timely subject for this year’s TFTV verbatim trio […]
Category: On-Campus
Review: TFTV Presents: The Liar
TFTV’s Scenic Stage Theatre is no stranger to early modern French comedies, so it’s with some skill that the team behind The Liar have managed to create something entirely new; […]
Review: DramaSoc Presents: Constellations
How do you create consistent and compelling characters when the only two characters in the play span a plethora of alternate universes and are different in each? Apparently with ease, […]
Review: TFTV Platform Presents: A Mouthful of Birds
When I asked director Audun Kruger Abrahamsen why he wanted to put on Caryl Churchill and David Lan’s A Mouthful of Birds, he told me that he “wanted to take […]
Review: Pomona
“What kind of f*cking world is it, where I’m allowed to live in it?” Alistair McDowell’s Pomona is an evocative look at a complex urban society where people go missing […]
Review: Perplex
“I can only trust in what I can see with my own eyes, seeing as everything, everything is a lie. And in any case, I might want everything to be […]
Review: The Mystae
“I’ve done some weird shit in my time, but this is about the opposite I reckon.” Nick Whitby’s Cornish coming of age drama was recreated in York’s very own Drama […]
‘BENT’ Review
Tonight the Drama Barn is transformed into early 1930s Nazi Germany; a place where terror and uncertainty is growing with each passing moment … This sets the scene for Drama Soc’s […]
New Student Play: 9 Million and Counting
They shake on crammed holds in damp clothes, frightened or, more likely, shell shaken… flashes of torture haunt scarred hands… some cold memory of wrecked home. And it is talk of […]
![268 [www.shakespearesglobe.com]](http://i0.wp.com/www.theyorker.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/268-www.shakespearesglobe.com_.jpg?fit=747%2C600)
Review: Hamlet
On Thursday night, I watched DramaSoc’s production of Hamlet, directed by Kosi Carter, at the Drama Barn. I was intrigued by this interpretation of Shakespeare’s longest tragedy, knowing that the […]