For all that can be said about The Pillowman, nobody can say it doesn’t try. Over two hours of complex plot (to a degree that some might call gratuitous), and with dialogue that occasionally buckles under its own overwritten weight, lends the play the uneasy attitude of the try-hard. Don’t let this put you off, though - The Pillowman is possibly the most powerful production I’ve seen in any student theatre, with a team who have carried it off with sinister aplomb.

CAST Bar and Restaurant cannot be faulted on its setting, located next to the Nottingham Playhouse with the Sky Mirror sculpture just outside. A new menu was introduced from June 8th, expanding on their aim of producing a large range of dishes from seasonal and locally sourced produce.
The bar menu is perfect for a light [...]

It has emerged today that Sir John Sawers, an alumnus from The University of Nottingham has been appointed as the new Chief of MI6. Sir John, 53, graduated with a degree in Philosophy and Physics in the summer of 1976 and will be replacing the 5 year-incumbent Oxford graduate, Sir John Scarlett this November.
Sir John’s [...]

A late night city centre reveller was seemingly a victim of police brutality in front of the Theatre Royal at 12.30am on Monday 15th June. A video taken by a taxi driver and then released by Trent FM shows some horrifying scenes of an arrest in Nottingham city centre.
A man seems to be resisting arrest [...]

‘Fighting, kissing, sexing, marrying, drugging, awkward fake sleeping and death’. All this in one play? This seemed a lot for New Theatre secretary Nick Medhurst to promise. Well I think they pulled it off…
There was definitely a festive air hanging around the New Theatre this Wednesday evening (as well as a couple of fencers and [...]

If there’s a film that will be sold on word of mouth alone this summer, it’s The Hangover. With a funny but unspectacular trailer, a plot (guys go to Vegas for bachelor party and crazy shit happens) that seems overly familiar, and stars who are relative unknowns there’s nothing to suggest anything hugely promising. But [...]

There is a whiteboard in the Impact office, on which we write phrases and topics which aren’t allowed due to cliché, general offensiveness, and just plain banality. What tops this list, however, is a phrase which journalists use as often as a doorknob - ‘The Cre*it Cr*nch’. We’re all aware that upon leaving uni [...]

Last month, Alastair Campbell and Eddie Izzard came to Nottingham to give a talk at the University. Impact caught up with them beforehand.
We’d been speaking to Alastair for a couple of minutes, about what he’s up to now, his hopes for engaging students in politics, and the 50p tax band which had been announced the [...]

Check out all the photos, interviews, comments and liveblogging from the Summer Party 2009.

An art shop to me is a sweetshop to kids,
A pick ‘n’ mix of pastels, pens and paint lids,
With a five-minute gap and nothing to do at all,
I will pick up my marker for a quick scrawl.
A reckless outline with no room for mistake,
I just take up some paper in a momentary break.
Yet it turns [...]

The Chameleon Cafe has recently played host to a number of alternative bands, ranging from the DIYness of Wavves to the revivalism of Crystal Stilts and the sheer craziness of Pulled Apart by Horses. Now it’s LA noise group HEALTH’s turn to plug in their amps. Before the set I cornered the guys from the [...]

Animal Collective’s sound floats around, from folky dream soundtracks to acid washed landscapes. After seven albums of the sounds of a myriad festivalgoers playing guitars, pots and pans under some distant sunset in perfect campfire harmony they’ve now unleashed Merriweather Post Pavilion upon our senses. We caught up with vocalist/instrumentalist Noah Lennox (Panda Bear) before [...]