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Curtain Descends on Smoke Rings

After months of writing and weeks of rehearsals, Smoke Rings, the play co-authored by third-year playwrights at the University of Gloucestershire, has run to full houses and critical acclaim. After every show sold out, an additional matinee performance…

Drama collaboration with The Everyman Theatre

On Friday, Lucy Tyler and second-year Dramatic Writing students hosted a day of table-top and staged readings with Paul Milton, the Artistic Director of The Everyman Theatre, and a group of the theatre’s creative associates and actors. The…

Writers in the News

Third-year dramatic writing students at the University of Gloucestershire have made the news with an article in today’s Gloucestershire Echo. Michael Purton’s article, “Students’ controversial smoking play to run at Cheltenham’s Everyman Theatre”, is available online here (the…

Smoke Rings – Tickets now available online

Smoke Rings, the brilliant new play written by our third-year dramatic writers, is running at Cheltenham’s Everyman Theatre, from Thursday 9th to Saturday 11th of May. This unique collaboration by our talented writers, Dreamshed Theatre Company, and The…

Cheltenham Poetry Festival

The Cheltenham Poetry Festival starts on April 20th, offering you the chance to experience poetry in all it’s manifestations: there are world class poets performing in intimate venues, exciting new fusion events which blend poetry with visual arts, workshops,…

Angela France Book Launch

Acclaimed poet Angela France, a University of Gloucestershire lecturer and PhD student, is launching her new book, Hide, at the University on Thursday 21st March. Angela’s poems have been anthologised a number of times, she has won the…

Drama this Friday

This Friday, Try Something New at the Parabola Arts Centre, where the work on show will include staged readings of new writing by Jess Searle and Annabel Box – two third-year students at the University of Gloucestershire. Their…

Student & Lecturer Publishes Poem in Planet Magazine

University of Gloucestershire part-time Creative Writing lecturer and PhD student Rowan Middleton has had a poem published in the current issue of ‘Planet: The Welsh Internationalist’. The poem ‘Journeys’ depicts people carrying their possessions across a landscape to…

UG Creative Writing Lecturer Wins Short Story Competition

University of Gloucestershire Creative Writing lecturer, Tyler Keevil, has won 1st prize in the Cinnamon Press Short Story Awards for his story ‘Reaching Out.’ Cinnamon is the publisher of, among others, Stephen May, Matthew Francis, and ex-University of…

Eleven Places Theatre Performances

A happy new year to one and all – may you have a healthy and successful 2013. And what better way to start the new year than by experiencing Eleven Places’ play ‘The Recipe for Belonging’? The theatre…