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

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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

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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

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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

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Man and Beast: Francis Bacon Cosmo Adair   Royal Academy 29th January – 17th April 2022 London, 24th February. Storm Eunice, ‘the worst in 30

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