The Many Materials of The Substance
By Edward Bayliss Someone at some point said something about good artists borrowing and great artists stealing. The provenance of this quotation is unclear, the
Ed Bayliss
By Edward Bayliss Someone at some point said something about good artists borrowing and great artists stealing. The provenance of this quotation is unclear, the
By Maisie Jennings Content Warning: Discussion of sexual assault. Laura Palmer’s body is found on the shore: blue-mouthed, blue-eyed, blonde. Her naked corpse is shrouded
By Sam Pesez Let’s be clear from the offset on how faith, in a religious sense, is conventionally defined. It is a strong belief in
By Jack Fry On my final evening in New York, I surfaced from Broadway subway station into the sticky humidity of a summer night in
By Madeline Harding Glut your sorrow. Look on my face with those doleful eyes Only I have seen. This is the ultimate intimacy; It seems
Cinematic realism in the ‘70s By Prithvijeet Sinha For those who have seen 2022’s emotionally wrenching To Leslie, toplined by Andrea Riseborough’s tour de force
By Jacob Watson Alan Hollinghurst’s third novel, The Spell, is unique in his bibliography, qualitatively and, if you like, quantitatively, in some compelling but confusing
The diabolical exploitation of the Menéndez brothers. Lyle Menéndez (left) and Erik Menéndez (right) during their highly publicised trial. / Associated Press ‘Violence is never
By Cara Crofts “The next parish over is Boston,” the locals of the Aran Islands will proudly tell you. They are the edge of civilisation
Candid, experimental and lucidly conceived, Hit Me Hard and Soft welcomes in a new era of Billie – a young artist in touch with her
By Ed Bayliss There might not have been a better place to watch Fourth Wall Theatre’s student production of hang than in the Durham Union
By James Young In recent years, two films about classical music conductors have been released, featuring two different means of telling stories about the way
By Maggie Baring I find myself, once again, unable to write about anything other than Noah Kahan. Hot off the heels of a Grammy nomination
By Edward Bayliss If I could see the world through the eyes of a child What a wonderful world this would be In a nondescript
By Robin Reinders December began with Saltburn. As someone reading English at a top three university in the UK, and one of Oxford’s foremost competitors,
By Anna Johns How to Have Sex is a deeply uncomfortable film. Not because it is overly graphic in its depiction of sexual assault, but
By Edward Bayliss When asked why he is so committed to his profession as a surgeon and scientific experimentalist, Dr. Godwin Baxter, or ‘God’, replies
By Lizzie Walsh ‘An overwhelming blast of passionless kitsch’ reads the Guardian’s reckoning of David Hockney’s 2023 ‘Bigger & Closer (not smaller and further away)’,
By Eliza Warfield. Exploring the limits of pain, mental control, and danger are all concepts that have enshrined Marina Abramović’s performance art for the past
By Xanthe de Wesselow It’s a Saturday night. Big city lights. “Bride to Be” sashes scatter every street corner with hen-dos en masse. A friend
By Zoe Worth Paris, Texas is a work of exquisite beauty and is something written quite permanently in my memory. Wim Wenders’s stylish tale of
By Cosmo Adair and Emma Large For a more thorough explanation of Immersive Theatre, please refer to Max Shanagher’s article “Teasing the fourth wall”: A
By Ed Bayliss “My whole life has been movies and religion. That’s it. Nothing else.” (Martin Scorsese) There exist three films in Scorsese’s portfolio that
Unmasking empathy: An examination of the ethics behind Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life By Saskia Koopman In the world of theatre certain productions possess the
The Dutch Master Who Kept His Ear: A Journey into the Life of Vermeer An insight into the exhibition of the year – Vermeer, at
By Jack Fry Over Easter, I was lucky enough to attend the latest stage adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ iconic southern gothic melodrama, A Streetcar Named
By Maggie Baring Recently, my father and I, both avid music listeners, formulated a revolutionary new musical theory: that the average listener of mainstream music
By Edward Bayliss The Phillipou brothers seem to be the next sibling duo to stamp their seal on the cinematic landscape of the 2020s with
By Cosmo Adair. Hitherto, the television has had little to say about Weimar Germany. Given the period’s well-recognised influence on film (The Cabinet of Dr.
By Ed Osborne. I asked Lord Emu about their new album at their last gig on Sunday 29th January. They told me it wasn’t finished,
By Jack Fry. Last week I was lucky enough to attend DULOG’s superb musical theatre production of the Gilded Age musical, ‘Hello Dolly!’. When I
By Mimi Nation-Dixon. Nora: A Doll’s House’ is a play that explores feminist themes through the life of protagonist Nora, in 1918, 1960 and 2018.
By Ed Osborne. Anyone who’s attended one of the countless balls in Durham will know that we have a plethora of cover and tribute bands,
By Ailís Osobase. I’m sure many of you will have seen the recent film Blonde, directed by Andrew Dominik, which centres itself around the life
The Ugly Fruit Group: An Open Letter An open letter to the students of Durham University, If you were asked to list the biggest challenges
PINAR: A Dramatic Monologue Saniya Saraf Pinar Gültekin’s murder stood testament to a phenomena that is revoltingly similar and intrinsic to the culture of
The Young Vic’s Yerma: Lorca for the London Stage Abigail Priestley The Young Vic’s 2016 adaptation of Yerma is vastly different from the quintessentially
Tracksuit Trendsetter: An Interview with BILA founder Sylvie Lovegrove Established in 2020, BILA is a London-based fashion brand specialising in handmade tie-dye sets. It
WeCraft: Combatting Loneliness Through Creativity Katie Rutter If you didn’t experience the effects of loneliness during the past year and a half, you are
Let’s Talk About Sex: An Opportunity for Change Isabel Davies-Jones As most students are aware, the attitudes towards sex at Durham University are problematic.
“Bull”: A Director’s Interpretation Giorgia Laird Bull is a razor-sharp, vicious dark comedy. In a set-up which echoes that of The Apprentice, we watch
Review: “Bull” Keerthi Sudhakar Vasishta The lights went off at 8.15pm. From 8pm, the thrust stage surrounded by a standing audience. The greeting was
A Sit Down with Chef Whyte Rushen “There’s not an hour that goes by that I’m not wishing that I was eating some sort of
An Interview with TIN Arts Bea Jackson To our shame, when we at Wayzgoose first discussed linking with local arts projects, we had not
Man and Beast: Francis Bacon Cosmo Adair Royal Academy 29th January – 17th April 2022 London, 24th February. Storm Eunice, ‘the worst in 30
Lifting the Curtain on the Underwater World Claudia Whaites How connected is humanity to the water? How intricately do our lives relate to ocean life?