Scarlett White

The latest offering from Nottingham New Theatre is a thrilling evening of Shakespearean humour and magic. Director Chris Trueman’s rendition of the Shakespeare classic is fresh and very entertaining. The show starts with the cast emulating a rocking boat perfectly by swinging side to side, using the available resources...

Despite being increasingly discussed in all walks of life, mental health still has a huge stigma attached to it. That’s why I was strangely relieved to watch Hinged, written and directed by Boo Jackson and Tom Heath, which attacks the subject of mental health head-on. Set in 1901, Hinged...

The Nottingham New Theatre and Nottingham Lakeside Arts Centre chose to put on Oedipus for this year’s theatrical collaboration. Oedipus is a monumental piece of Greek literature by the brilliant Sophocles. It tells the tragic tale of Oedipus, a man who spends his life running away from what he...

Between 1982 and 1992, over one hundred hostages were kidnapped in Lebanon. Most were Americans or Western Europeans, and at least eight died or were murdered whilst in captivity. Irish dramatist Frank McGuiness’s play, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, which premiered at London’s Hampstead Theatre in 1992, follows three of these...

Many are familiar with the analeptic memory play The Glass Menagerie by critically-acclaimed playwright Tennessee Williams, and it was with a certain knowledgable anticipation that audience members took their seats to view the latest reproduction. Brought to the Nottingham Playhouse by Stephanie Sirr (Chief Executive) and Giles Croft (Artistic...

This instalment of Lizzie’s Lent expect the temptations of internet shopping and book obsessed English student conversations… This challenge is starting to get harder now! As part of the rules, I can browse as much as I like, but this has its own challenges. It feels like I’m facing the book equivalent...

This week Lizzie continues her Lent book ban, encountering the pressures of last minute course purchases and the allure of vintage book shops… So this hasn’t been the most successful week. I’m sad to report that I have cheated, although, in my defence, it was necessary! The week started...