• Behind the Scenes at NNT – ‘Stags and Hens’ by Willy Russell

    Liverpudlian accents, sparkly flares and a whole lot of energy. That’s what greeted me when I went to interview director Chloe Richardson, producer Tara Phillips, and cast members Sally Nesbitt, Kate O’Gorman, and Jake Ellis, of the NNT’s upcoming play Stags and Hens by Willy Russell. The enthusiastic and bubbly cast...
  • Interview with Andrea Gibson – ‘Lord of the Butterflies’ Tour

    I first came across Andrea Gibson’s work on Spotify, after listening to their album Hey Galaxy! An amalgamation of beautiful spoken word poetry put to music. Each piece felt like a snippet of someone’s rawest moments, collated to create a patchwork of love, loss, identity and family. A lot...
  • Behind the Scenes at NNT: ‘The Seagull’ by Anton Chekhov Adapted by Florence Bell

    Florence Bell presents for your enjoyment a new adaptation of Chekhov’s naturalistic classic The Seagull. Instead of adapting the play in a traditional sense, director and writer Florence Bell has created a new piece of drama. Taking the final act and repeating it through the perspectives of four different...
  • BEHIND THE SCENES AT NNT: ‘HUMAN ANIMALS’ BY STEF SMITH

    Ahead of its first performance tomorrow night, I had the pleasure to chat with director Joe Strickland about upcoming production Human Animals. A play which, Joe told me, centres around “conflict between different ideologies,” depicting a world in which animals are starting to rise up. An intriguing production which...
  • Interview – Aryana Ramkhalawon, ‘The Funeral Director’

    Impact interviews Aryana Ramkhalawon, who stars as Ayesha in the Nottingham Playhouse’s upcoming performance of The Funeral Director, which debuts tonight at 7.45pm. The play explores the experience of Ayesha and her role as a Muslim funeral director when asked to plan a memorial for a gay man. What would...
  • Interview – Steampunk Photographer Gary Nicholls

    “The first thing I always say is that creativity is not for the select few, it is for those brave enough to give it a go. The worst that can happen is you learn something.” One of the UK’s most respected Steampunk Photographers, Gary Nicholls is soon to release...
  • Behind the Scenes at NNT: ‘Inhabitation’ by Nat Henderson

    I recently had the opportunity to sit down with the cast and crew of the NNT’s upcoming production, Inhabitation, written and co-directed by the University of Nottingham’s own Nat Henderson. I also caught up with co-director Esther Butterworth and two of the play’s leads, Yazmine Dankwah and Ellen Schaffert....