16 November 2012
Eleven Places, a Theatre Company comprised of four University of Gloucestershire graduates (Lucy Tyler, Keely O’Shaughnessy, Luke Dean, and Claire Holland), is soon to start a month-long residency at the Meantime project space. As part of the residency,…
23 October 2012
Paine’s Plough, the UK’s leading new writing company, is in Cheltenham on November 1st, as they seek to weave a theatrical tapestry of the UK. In towns across the country, Paine’s Plough have commissioned local playwrights to write…
16 October 2012
Here’s some news on a couple of local(ish) poetry events: University of Gloucestershire Creative Writing tutor Angela France is performing in Worcester tomorrow night as part of a series of events organised by Templar Poetry. Angela holds an…
1 October 2012
Don’t worry if you’ve missed the ticket rush for J.K. Rowling (the well-known state-of-the-nation author, who has also written children’s books about a wizard), there’s loads more to see at this year’s Cheltenham Literature Festival. We reckon this…
20 September 2012
Leaves yellowing, knitted scarves appearing, red-kneed children excitedly scrabbling for conkers… Yes, summer is ending and the good news is that open readings are back. This Tuesday, we’re set for the usual combination of poetry, prose, drama, and…
4 September 2012
After a summer break, we’re back up and running. Here’s the first of many great local opportunities that we’ll be advertising between now and the end of the year: Paines Plough, the leading company for new writers, is…
23 April 2012
Join us for a fun post-Easter night out at the Cotswold Listener fundraiser on Tueday 24th. The Cotswold Listener is a free of charge talking newspaper for those who are visually impaired. Several University of Gloucestershire Creative Writing students and…
15 April 2012
The second annual Cheltenham Poetry Festival will be running between the 18th and the 22nd April. This year the festival will feature nearly 100 performers over five days of spoken word and live literature events. The events take…
27 February 2012
Playwrights from the University of Gloucestershire are inviting the public to staged readings of their work at The Parabola Arts Centre on Friday 9th March. Below, Claire Holland reports on their preparations: Last Friday, myself and my peers…
21 February 2012
Lucy Tyler reviews Alan Ayckbourn’s Neighbourhood Watch: a laugh-out-loud satire of a security-obsessed Britain, which will have special resonance for those theatre-goers young enough to remember when they were mistaken for Britain’s ‘feral youth’. When it comes to…