With a live brass band, hosts decked out in fishnets and cocktail-topped cabaret tables, you could’ve been forgiven for mistaking Leeds for Las Vegas with Open Theatre’s last show of the semester, Being Tommy Cooper. […]
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, […]
Old Before His Time: The Man Researching His Own Premature Ageing Condition
English and French student Stephanie Green is currently doing an internship with the charity EURORDIS – Rare Diseases Europe in Paris. In time for Rare Disease Day 2018, she had the opportunity to speak to […]
Peace @ Stylus, 22/3/17
“I’m sorry I don’t have much banter, I haven’t spoken to anyone but myself for a year,” frontman Harry Koisser jokes, clad in full camo print and a ‘Choose Love’ t-shirt. This could well be […]
In the Middle with Superfood
Dom sounds a bit worse for wear as we chat over the phone. He’d been at the NME awards the night before with friend and flatmate, Harry Koisser. “Everyone who was playing came back to […]
Review: OT’s Ink Boy – an impressive piece of new writing
On Thursday night, the Alec Clegg theatre saw the first ever performance of Hugo Jones and Josh Kirby’s new writing, ‘Ink Boy’ – a surrealist dark comedy about Gordon, a hapless and uninspired employee who […]
‘Food Porn’ vs ‘Clean Eating’: are they more similar than we really think?
“I despair of the term ‘clean eating’…it necessarily implies that any other form of eating – and consequently the eater of it – is dirty or impure and thus bad.” – Nigella Lawson. In an […]
Review: The Leeds Tealights – Stunning and original student comedy
The Leeds Tealights have long established themselves as a force to be reckoned with, having plenty of 5-star reviews under their belts; they haven’t let this faze them though, and their new show ‘Rebirth’ was […]
“I intend to live forever”: Leonard Cohen dies age 82
“I said I was ready to die recently. And I think I was exaggerating. I’ve always been into self-dramatisation. I intend to live forever.” Today, the world awoke to heartbreak. This is a sentiment that […]