Review: DDF – Beautiful Nothing by Em Oliver
“Hilarious, honest and humouring, Emily Oliver’s incredible one-woman play was a Durham Student Theatre triumph.” Maddie Clark is blown away by Em Oliver’s ‘Beautiful Nothing’ for DDF 2022.
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Charlie Barnett
Review: Pramkicker
“Suffragette Theatre Company’s Pramkicker fills the void that has been missing from Durham Student Theatre. The hard-hitting, feminist script packed full of juicy monologues immediately commands the audience’s attention and remains completely captivating throughout”: Honor Douglas enjoys Suffragette Theatre Company’s ‘Pramkicker’.
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Review: The Interview
Buttered Toast presents a new student-written play, ‘The Interview’ by Issy Flower – an exploration of “modern youth and fossilised youth.”
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Sarah Everard & Antigone: public grief and protest
Women across the country have stood in defiance of civil law to mourn the loss of Sarah Everard. Saskia Wootton-Cane looks at public protesting and public grief through the lens of Sophocles’ Antigone.
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Directing In A Pandemic
Charlie Barnett interviews DST alumnus and trainee director Jennifer Lane Baker.
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Loving the art when you loathe the artist
‘ By refusing to unite the artist with their art, we take away their interpretive power and reclaim it for ourselves’ – Charlie Barnett discusses the moral issues of enjoying entertainment created by ‘cancelled’ artists
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Inside Durham Drama Festival
Some of DDF’s contributors take us inside the process of the week-long festival.
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Ableism in the arts: from Sia to Rain Man
Following recent criticism of Sia’s upcoming film, Charlie Barnett explores the history of ableism in the arts.
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National Theatre at Home: what is the future of live theatre?
With the National Theatre’s new streaming service ‘NT at Home’ recently unrolling, pre-Covid audiences are forced to question the future of live theatre.
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Review: ‘They Met on Good Friday’
“A fantastic escape.” Charlie Barnett reviews DUCT’s radio play, ‘They Met on Good Friday.’
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