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The New Age of Reality TV
Summer 2016, Love Island is on its second season and the Anastasia Dip Brow was on the rise. Life is good and Love Island is the hot new...
Apr 28, 2024


Materialising the Brontë Ghosts: The Brontë Parsonage Museum
Inseparable from the family who once resided there, the Brontë Parsonage Museum evokes the creeping sensation of mausoleum where visitors...
Apr 28, 2024
And the Oscar goes to…
The awards season has come to an end… a month ago. However, it is worth reflecting on what actually happened at the 96th ceremony of the...
Apr 28, 2024


Hometown Boring: an interview with HistoryHun
If you’re a fan of podcasts, you’ll be happy to know that there’s a new one on the scene. In fact, if you’re chronically online like...
Apr 10, 2024
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides: Girlhood through the eyes of a man.
(Contains spoilers for both the book and film adaptation of The Virgin Suicides) ‘”Obviously, Doctor” she said, “you’ve never been a...
Apr 8, 2024


PANTONE: Everything Peachy for 2024
The 2024 Colour of the Year has been announced by Pantone as Peach Fuzz 13-1023. What does this mean? How can someone decide that this is...
Feb 4, 2024
What Was I Made For: Poor Things, A Review:
Spoilers incoming. Let’s talk about Poor Things. Engaging with feminist cinema has always been a source of enjoyment and enrichment for...
Feb 4, 2024


Dolly Alderton’s Good Material
The writer’s insights into love, heartbreak, and growing up continue in her second fiction novel. When I think Dolly Alderton, I think...
Nov 23, 2023


Open Theatre’s ‘Train Stations’: Funny, Engaging, and Witty
Open Theatre’s latest production ‘Train Stations,’ written by Sam Cooke and directed by Caroline Rauch follows a blossoming friendship...
Nov 14, 2023
A Review of 'What We Do in the Shadows'
The tendency to watch the same three shows on repeat is something that I am all too familiar with. Of these shows, What We Do in the...
Nov 14, 2023
Ignacio Lopez ‘Nine Ig Fails’ Preview
After his overdue debut on ‘Live at the Apollo’, Ignacio Lopez is bringing his tour show ‘Nine Ig Fails’ to Leeds. Telling the tale of...
Nov 14, 2023
To be a Woman in Horror: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman.
A time for pumpkins, sweets, and spooks; as a mood reader I feel like I’m compelled to tackle something scary when I’m reading in...
Nov 12, 2023


Can I open up? Is it safe or not?: Kendrick Lamar, Lauryn Hill, and the Deconstruction of Celebrity
Our culture has a celebrity problem. I’m not suggesting this is a new issue: an insidious expectation that famous artists can, and will,...
Nov 12, 2023


‘Finding my way through Sonia Boyce’s ‘Feeling Her Way’ exhibition.
Sonia Boyce’s OBE, immersive exhibition at The Leeds Art Gallery closes on the 5th of November 2023, and it’s an experience you wouldn’t...
Nov 3, 2023


Esther Manito ‘Hell Hath No Fury’, A Review
Reflective and thought-provoking, Esther Manito uses her hour on stage to express her experiences as a woman in her 40s as well as...
Oct 19, 2023
Alice Neel Exhibition: A Review
Alice Neel’s latest exhibition ‘Hot Off The Griddle’ showing at the Barbican, London features a chronological display of her paintings,...
May 8, 2023


Education, Education, Education: A Review
Education, Education, Education - its title inspired by the Tony Blair line, in a promise for better funding and support for public...
Apr 18, 2023


Review: Leeds University Theatre Group’s ‘Rules for Living’
Rigorously ruled, hilariously explosive and heart wrenchingly real – Alexandra Packer reviews Theatre Group’s first show of the term,...
Mar 17, 2023


Almost Maine review: Mediations on love and its transmutable forms
Prem Dosanjh reviews... Set in the fictional town of ‘Almost’, John Cariani’s two act play is comprised of nine separate duologues, all...
Mar 17, 2023


OPEN THEATRE’S SWALLOWING THE WHALE IN REVIEW
'A truly absorbing, clever and new piece of theatre'. The space felt completely transformed upon entering into Stage One for Open...
Mar 16, 2023
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