“When people have asked me what this show is about, my immediate reaction is ‘Maths!” but Proof isn’t really about maths” Beth Wilson eloquently puts it in her director’s notes on the programme. Family, trust, […]
The Best Books for Christmas presents
If you’re looking for books to gift your friends and family, here’s a list of the best ones you to get: Becoming – Michelle Obama Michelle Obama released her autobiography less than three weeks ago […]
New Local Book Alert: An Otley Run by Joe Williams
Whether it be witnessing Pikachu try to break up a fight between the Mario Brothers outside Original Oak, or drunkenly running around The Library in a pink Power Ranger costume frantically searching which of the […]
Haunting and Heartwarming: Opera North’s Silent Night at Leeds Town Hall
The Christmas truce of 1914 has to be one of the most remarkable events in the history of mankind; we’re talking about a story in which thousands of valorous men left their trenches to unite […]
Not Such Quiet Girls: A Contemporary Opera
Opera North’s Not Such Quiet Girls is a contemporary story of the first world war and a contemporary stance on opera. It completely subverted my expectation of the art form, of the singing in a […]
Review: Music Theatre Society Presents Bare
In Music Theatre Society’s Bare, directed by James Marsh, a group of Catholic school students navigate the complexities of their faith along with their own coming-of-age woes, dealing with themes like teenage pregnancy, drug use, […]
Leeds 2018 Palestinian Film Festival: 1948 Creation & Catastrophe Review
‘A people without a land for a land without people”- a now infamous slogan for those who supported the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, and […]
Masculinity, Femininity and Vulnerability: Ezra Miller’s Playboy Shoot
Wearing high heels and lip gloss, Ezra Miller’s presence as a successful queer actor in a Playboy photo shoot, the interview conducted by Ryan Gajewski, has become a widely discussed aspect of the gender performance […]
Five ways the Arts and Humanities students can get experience over the Christmas break
If you fall into the category of an Arts or Humanities student, you will no doubt be accustomed to the tedious questions of ‘what will you do with that degree?’ and ‘are you going to […]
‘Harvey’: Berkoff’s prospective play about a predator
Harvey Weinstein is a name anyone who has turned on the news or opened Twitter in the last year will be familiar with. Most people are also painfully aware of the horrible acts he committed […]
12 Days of Gifts for the Fine Art Lover
ART GALLERY MEMBERSHIP The ability to visit an art gallery as much as they want within one year. This will ensure that they can see all the works of art on display. A lot of […]
The Arts and Climate Change
The issue of climate change is becoming increasingly pertinent; a crisis that is only worsening and demands immediate action. Collins Dictionary’s word of the year for 2018 was ‘single-use’, powerfully highlighting how environmental problems are […]