Featured image: Atsushi Nishijima. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures.© 2023 Searchlight Pictures All Rights Reserved. Combining unreliable narration, visual horror, and in-your-face philosophy, Yorgos Lanthimos produces a marmite masterpiece. Highly anticipated and insane ‘Poor Things’ explores the coming-of-age of Bella Baxter, a beautiful and naive Frankenstein created by ‘God’ Baxter. The film is inspired by the…
Featured image: HOME/Press There are few stories that inspire a festive feeling quite like Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. The timeless coming-of-age tale follows four sisters on their passage into adulthood, each with their own individual spirit guiding them. In Anne-Maire Casey’s adaptation of the classic, the story is transformed into an exciting theatrical experience. …
Featured image and gallery: Nathan Cole In a quiet room at the Deaf Institute, 40 or so people gather for The Mercians’ highly anticipated first headline tour. Having come off the back of supporting former Kasabian frontman, Tom Meighan, the four-piece are one of the scene’s most exciting up-and-coming outfits. They’re on a mission to…
Featured image and gallery: Ben Redshaw Kicking off the show, Essex 5-piece, Bad Nerves, warm up the crowd with unpretentious power-pop. Starting with a chunky guitar riff, the group knows how to command attention. Bobby Nerves cuts through the support act awkwardness by making jibes at the previous night’s Glasgow audience. ‘Can’t Be Mine’, ‘Baby…
Photography: Ben Redshaw Sean Aydon directs the final year BA (Hons) Acting students in a powerfully unnerving adaptation of Anne Washburn’s ‘Mr Burns, A Post-Electric Play’, courtesy of Manchester School of Theatre. The play follows American survivors following an apocalyptic nuclear disaster, trying to remember an episode of The Simpsons. Gathering around a campfire, a…
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