By Nicole Ruf They want the culture, not the immigrant.  They will stream the music, push it up the charts, but never protect the bodies

By David Bayne-Jardine The milestone musical Grease is a tough one to take on, but this raucous classic seemed light work in the hands of

By Ollie Cochran Even if you have never heard of the Durham Revue, you most likely have heard from them. Modern-day British comedy has an

By Freyja Hollington ‘Well, I cannot watch a drama in an agitated manner.’ When Oscar Wilde took up the charge of presenting the social, he

By Matty Timmis The Mocking Stars has arrived, seemingly out of the blue, and as I write this I am wondering if I am even

By Raphael Henrion I had the privilege to watch DULOG’s production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street twice during their impressive run

By Sam Bentley I have always loved Oscar Wilde. His wit and satire remains timeless, and his celebration of joy and absurdity feels fitting in

By Robin Reinders ‘I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.’ – Richey Edwards ‘Little Lamb who made thee / Dost thou

By Edward Clark Danny Brown is on an all-time run. For a veteran rapper with over twenty years of experience behind him, Brown shows no

By Bel Radford To Rest Our Minds and Bodies is an incredibly yielding book. Its contents are tender and vulnerable, falling clean off the bone

Getting Killed and Choosing Love By Matthew Dodd For the first forty-five seconds of Trinidad, the opening track from New York post-punk band Geese’s new

By Maisie Jennings On Monday night, I had the pleasure of watching DUCT’s production of Noël Coward’s Hay Fever, a century after its first performance

By Edward Bayliss Yesterday, I watched the first night of Walkabout Productions’ Room for Doubt. Watched, it seems, is the wrong word. As the UK’s

By Matthew Dodd Around halfway through The Phoenician Scheme – the latest feature from Wes Anderson – Benicio Del Toro’s lead character, the existential arms

By Esme Bell I really meant to write this in February, when North-East legend Sam Fender’s most recent album, People Watching, was released. I planned

By Edward Clark The Army, The Navy shine brilliantly live. In the cozy Colours Hoxton, the American two-piece showcased their unique style, which centres the

By Edward Bayliss Indie-pop band, ‘ivies’, recently released their latest single, ‘i don’t wanna care’. Their band, formed of current Durham students and recent graduates,

By Matthew Dodd Josh Tillman – the artist currently known as Father John Misty – takes to the stage of the century-and-a-half old Royal Albert

By Emilia Brookfield-Pertusini A honey prickled voice rolls through the chambers of my Koss portaPros during an anticipatory Spring walk in Durham. The Spotify algorithm

By Edward Clark Jane Remover’s most recent release Ghostholding under side project ‘venturing’, refines her exploration of a rock soundscape. The project follows 2023’s Census

By Rory McAlpine What is love? What is this mystifying, often elusive force, shaping and impacting so much of our lives? After Taste, by Katie

By Misty Delembre It seemed like a fitting Valentine’s Day choice: Secretary (2002), the offbeat, kinky romance that had once felt refreshingly different from Hollywood’s

By Sarah Humadi Baker’s cinematography is striking; the muted, industrial landscapes of Brooklyn and commercial Vegas contrasting with pops of vivid neon lights of the

By Rory McAlpine Marking 75 years since their inception, DULOG theatre company chose to celebrate this anniversary by bringing the enduringly powerful and beloved Crazy

By Martha Thornycroft  Despite being nearly seven years behind the trend, I started the New Year reading Rachel Cusk’s Kudos (2018), the third in her

By Mopsy Peel The art of female anger has rarely been a subject for delicate inspection, particularly in film. More often, it is crammed into

By Edward Bayliss Since he was nine years old, Robert Eggers says he has been ‘obsessed’ with W.F. Murnau’s 1922 vampire horror, Nosferatu. In his

By Emilia Brookfield-Pertusini I hate tradition. I possess a bah-humbug approach to these supposedly ‘heart-warming’ events we must trudge through for time’s sake. However, I

By Esme Bell This is an easy pun to make, but it was with genuine sadness that I left Durham’s Gala cinema last week, after

By Emily Hough Paddington 2 and Paddington in Peru: like asking da Vinci to recreate the Mona Lisa with different paints.  This past Saturday, I

By Lydia Firth At the beginning of this month, I had the absolute pleasure of attending one of Laura Marling’s four nights of residency in

By Em Robertson Taylor As someone who has the St. George’s cross blu-tacked to my wall, I am often asked why I display such a

By Jacob Watson Five years does seem like a long time to take to get around to reading the highly anticipated follow up to Call

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 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

 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 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

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