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Before his tour ‘Enter the Tonezone’ rolls into Nottingham next week, Impact Arts caught up with comedian Tony Law – the eccentric looking comedian with an outlandish act to match. So, starting at the beginning, what first inspired you to become a comedian? Just being an arse who needed validation through...

Last night, The Nottingham Contemporary opened exhibitions by two exciting, emerging, international artists. The galleries were filled, for a late night viewing, with the works of Raphael Hefti and Agnieszka Polska, and an intrigued and inspired audience. The atmosphere was electric as I walked into Hefti’s self-titled exhibition, weaving...

Note from the editor: this series of blogs will follow Mary Strickson in documenting her time and thoughts at Nottingham Contemporary art gallery throughout the year. Back in May, I wrote a tentative email to Alice Thickett at Nottingham Contemporary, explaining that I wanted to know about ways to get...

This feature will publish student poetry and prose with a small explanation so you can get a clearer understanding of what references are made and what the piece is trying to say. Alongside student poetry there will be a ‘Poem of Note’, a poem written by an established writer. This...

Set in 1917, Regeneration is a play examining the effects of shell shock on a group of young men. There is particular focus on two poets who would go on to dominate the war-poetry scene; Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen (the latter who wrote the deeply provocative poem Dulce...

One would be forgiven for thinking that Somerset Maugham’s powerful anti-war drama For Services Rendered was an odd choice by The Lace Market Theatre to commemorate the centenary of the start of  World War 1. When so many theatres, both professional and amateur, are featuring R.C. Sherriff’s masterpiece Journey’s...

Propaganda Swing, part of Nottingham Playhouse’s Time and Memory season, is based on the true and surprising story of ‘Charlie and his Orchestra’. Jazz, which had been frowned upon and even banned in Germany, was allowed by the Nazi party on the radio in the form of propaganda. A...