Lakeside Arts Centre

The fifth collaboration between Lakeside Arts and the New Theatre presents an exciting and engaging take on Olivier Award-winning playwright Jessica Swale’s Blue Stockings, mixing laughter with heartbreak as director Martin Berry takes us through the trials and tribulations faced by the first women who tried to win the...

One of the best ways to get work experience as an Arts student has to be volunteering. However unintentionally, the world of museums, libraries and galleries are incredibly difficult to access if you want to be paid for your work, but almost any establishment will accept you if you’re...

Luke Wright delivered an in-your-face, politically charged performance of poetry in a one-man show entitled What I Learned From Johnny Bevan. Starting with a skit on London and the pretentious life one can lead there, Wright’s character Nick set the scene by detailing a new festival that gentrified a set...

Even if you’ve watched some of the film or musical versions of Oliver as part of those film-and-copious-amounts-of-food-Christmases, when you see posters for a production of a hip-hop tale of Fagin’s backstory, it still sounds pretty wacky. I had resigned myself to the fact that it would probably be...

Energetic, authentic and emotional, that’s how I would sum up this performance! Taking a well-loved classic close to all our hearts, director Laura Jayne Bateman made this modern classic come to life using only a very minimalistic set and five actors. For those who aren’t familiar with the story, The Great Gatsby portrays Nick...

When you think of waste products of the meat industry, it’s unlikely that you think of ‘art’. The meat industry isn’t glamorous, and the waste products even less so, but what Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva has installed at Nottingham Lakeside Arts using that very thing could only be called ‘ethereal’. Born...

To celebrate Nottingham New Theatre’s charity performance of The Great Gatsby at the Lakeside Arts Centre, Impact Arts interviewed director, Laura Jayne Bateman, and producer Gigi George, who also happens to be performing the role of Jordan in the show!  Tell us about the play. What influenced your adaptation and why did...