Posts by Eve
How to Make Cards Without Money
April 13, 2014
A friend’s birthday is an inevitability; the more friends you have the greater the chance of upcoming birthdays. Now you will need to find some kind of offering to present them with – a token, a symbol of your friendship and an unspoken contract that they’d better get you something when it’s your turn. So is …
Hard-Headed Journalist
April 5, 2014
Today I was a hard-headed (or is it hot-head?) journalist. I had an appointment at the Playhouse to interview the artistic director about the county council cuts for an upcoming Impact article. And so I went armed with recording device, notebook and coffee: the three wise-men necessities of the journalistic world. I believe this was …
The Phantom of the Opera is My Essay
March 28, 2014
There’s something very satisfying when I realise you can write one of your final university essays on Lloyd Webber’s ‘The Phantom of the Opera’. And that is exactly what I am going to be doing for my third year module ‘Theatre Industry and Theatre Art’ – which I used to abbreviate as TATI, which I thought …
Me and Oscar Wilde: A Conversation
March 22, 2014
The setting: A Student’s Living Room. Velvet curtains, a tattered carpet, cigarettes in a gold cigarette box and a handful of fast-food flyers. Oscar Wilde is smoking. Eve comes in through the open window from the terrace. Eve: Oscar, what are you doing? Smoking on such a day as this? It is a beautiful, English …
The Commoners Guide To How to Be An Impact Reviewer
March 14, 2014
People often ask me, people sometimes ask me… somebody asked me once: so how do you write a theatre review for a student magazine? Step One: Pop along to whichever Nottingham theatre you are reviewing at, maybe bring along a friend for company or maybe just a large bag of chocolate buttons will suffice. March …
Excess of Thought
March 7, 2014
It is assessment time again. It comes in waves – you can see it coming but never know how powerful it’ll be when it hits. Well, it’s third year and the assessment wave is pretty darn powerful. My eyes have already started going flat and fuzzy from staring at my computer screen; I can’t decide …
The Importance of Being Lonely
February 21, 2014
As a modern student our lives are excessively busy. Yesterday I had a tutor meeting about an essay concerning Victorian melodrama; a seminar about how Oscar Wilde thinks murder is ok if you’re an artist; a meeting about Edinburgh Proposals at the Nottingham New Theatre; a recording for the radio play I’m in (Society Rules); …
Romance: I Peed in a Café
February 14, 2014
Once we get over the artifice, the Americanisation, of Valentine’s Day we can start looking at the bizarre V Day merchandise which fits pace and parcel (and a nice pink bow) with the whole Love thing. The giving of gifts is never a bad thing but Valentine’s Day seem to imply that a gift represents …
Let Me Count the Ways
February 7, 2014
University may not be for everyone. Devoting long hours of your weekend to the perusal of Austen, Smith or Milton may sound to some people like the craziest, most grotesque form of self-punishment thinkable but for others, for me, it is the most rewarding, pleasurable pastime imaginable. To dive and swim in the imaginations of …
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