As someone who has always been interested (read: mildly obsessed) with theatre, coming to university in the middle of a pandemic was always going to present some unique challenges. But ultimately, it was a niche category of drama which I had never even considered before that ended up defining my experience of theatre in…
Castle Theatre Company is back on tour, 16 days, 15 individuals, 4 cars, 2 tents and 1 ‘overseas’ trip to the Isle of Wight – what could possibly go wrong!?
poster credit – Em Oliver
Greetings from sunny Ephesus! Durham University’s Castle Theatre Company presents one of Shakespeare’s most hilarious…
Writer and Director, Yolan Noszkay
My grandma is called Roza.When I was little,she would tell me stories about her life in Hungary. She told me about the fun she hadwith her siblingsandher love for learning,but also about the fear that was ever-present, having lived through both Nazi and…
Who am I?
I’m a second year English undergraduate and I love to spend my time getting involved with theatre at Durham, especially directing and acting. With 28 different theatre companies putting on shows all year round, I’m never short of opportunities. This year I’ve taken on a real challenge as I’m…
As many of Durham’s students were enjoying the last week of their holiday’s before returning to the madness that is the Epiphany term, DULOG’s finest found themselves heading back to campus ready to embark on a week of rehearsals in preparation for Frank Loesser’s golden age musical and this year’s Gala show: Guys and…
'The Single Lady’ London run as told by the single lady doing the tech.
13th October 2021
How it started
Somewhere deep in the wonderful Flo Lunnon’s (cast, Queen Elizabeth I) camera roll there exists a very staged photo of me ‘passed out with excitement’ on the stage of the Assembly Rooms Theatre (ART) having just been told by Flo that a mysterious Lauren would like me to Tech direct her new musical. Being…
When I signed up to be involved in this piece of student writing, I had no idea what I was getting myself into; the origin of ‘The Single Lady’ is unlike that of most new musicals, written almost entirely over Zoom and FaceTime, by second-year students Lauren Brewer and Will Geraint Drake. The show’s influences, deeply…
Castle Theatre Company’s summer Shakespeare Tour is an annual tradition going back decades at Durham. Every year, a group of student actors, musicians and creatives, prepare a Shakespeare comedy and take it on tour, performing it at venues around the south of England in July. While affiliated with University College, the team…
People will always tell you that university is about so much more than just your course, and that it is an opportunity to get involved with anything you want, and I have to say, at Durham, this wholly describes my experience.
No experience necessary
Before coming to Durham, I had done very little in the way of theatre; I…
My incredible journey with ‘Audition’ started when my friend tagged me in a Facebook post, advertising the project. I’ve acted at every opportunity my whole life but never in front of a camera, so when I heard about ‘Audition’ I jumped at the chance to be in a film, and was thrilled to be selected to play the female…
