Today we meet the team behind Warwick Improv’s Fringe show, Anything You Want. What’s the concept? You get to join Warwick Improvised Theatre Society as we create a completely improvised stage play, all spiralling from ONE audience suggestion. Told through a series of connected two-person narratives, this simple and intimate show...
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In the third edition of our Warwick at the Fringe series, Jessie Kolvin meets the team behind the emerging theatre company Reactivists to discuss their new show. What’s the concept? Since the 1st January 2018, five female writers have worked together to create weekly responses to the socio-political events of...
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Next up we have Warwick Comedy with their sketch show Where’s the Trampoline? What’s the concept? It doesn’t matter how far you fall; what matters is how high you bounce back. Where’s the Trampoline? is a fast-paced sketch show centred around the feeling of falling, bouncing, and that awesome thing where...
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Every year, Warwick sends a plethora of creative and committed students to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Throughout July, the Boar Arts will be previewing this year’s productions and celebrating the range of talent Warwick Drama has to offer. Here we kick off our series by chatting to the team behind Timpson:...
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Jessie Kolvin Two people fell in love and it was hard not to be very happy for them. It was also hard not to be excited about what their union suggested for an outdated institution: a non-white person married into the royal family for the first time; a divorcee...
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It is a British trait not to want to talk about money. Such conversations too quickly give rise to awkward emotions: judgement, fear of judgement, jealousy, resentment and guilt. Students talk about money all the time, but usually because we want to despair at our lack of it. More taboo,...
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Passports have hit the headlines in recent months with the Home Office confirming that navy blue passports will be rolled out after Brexit to replace the current European burgundy ones; with immigration minister Brandon Lewis claiming that the move will “restore national identity”. This raises the questions: what is in...
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Jessie Kolvin explores new research which links obesity to 12 cancers, five more than previously thought, and what action is being taken by the government to improve public health.
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The World Cup is upon us, with football fever set to grip the nation for the next month. Here at the Boar Books, watching football is clearly our favourite summer pastime, but we would like to take a moment to remember the one that comes a narrow second: reading. In...
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Jessie Kolvin explains the possibility of our solar system having a new member - a theoretical Super-Earth, as scientists set out to find Planet Nine.
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What are you going to do with your arts degree? For many students, it’s a familiar, and sometimes dreaded, question. Probably quite a lot of people reply that they will go into teaching. Probably very few say that they will go into teaching in the army. That is precisely what...
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The latest student production to be performed at the Goose Nest – Misterman by Enda Walsh – promises to be unlike anything Warwick has seen before. Co-director Matt Owen explains that Enda Walsh’s plays are “beautiful but really tough to put on.” So, a “big collaboration was necessary”. Oscar Sadler,...
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Student houses are infamously murky dwellings. For three nights last week, a house in south Leamington became so abnormally troublesome that a concerned neighbour called the police. The cause was a performance of Alistair McDowall’s 2014 play Pomona, by the new company Don’t Pity the Felon, for which they transformed...
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