Sam Crawford

Arts Column – Is Fringe work experience worth it?

If you are a young budding creative then going up to the Edinburgh Fringe can seem like a really good idea. After all, you’re effectively going to a city that is about to completely devote itself to the arts for a whole month, which means that you should have the...
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Posted Nov. 12, 2014

Emerge Festival 2014 – Preview

As I sat down to interview Matt Burman and Laura Eliot, two thirds of the team that manage Warwick Art Centre’s programme, it occurred to me that they both looked remarkably relaxed for two people who work an insane amount of hours in order to ensure that the Centre continues...
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Posted Oct. 29, 2014

“The Angry Brigade” Review

James Graham’s play, The Angry Brigade is split into two halves: in the first act the audience watch a small police unit attempt to track down a group of home-grown terrorists who insist that the government has declared “a vicious class war” and that the time has come to fight...
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Posted Oct. 15, 2014

Warwick Comedy Society

Warwick Comedy Society has just returned from the Edinburgh Fringe where they performed a week-long run of their sketch show, Sketchual Tensions. The show featured a variety of sketches that the students had performed earlier on this year and was well-received by paying audiences. However, you don’t have to be...
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Posted Oct. 1, 2014

Warwick Drama Society Profiles

Codpiece Devising Society Codpiece will be holding weekly workshops in Term One that will cover a variety of performance skills. In Week 7 they’ll be staging a devised piece, in association with Freshblood New Writing, called Souvenirs, which will be performed in the Arts Centre Studio. Auditions will be held...
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Posted Sep. 27, 2014

Under-employment rises in the West Midlands

A new study conducted by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has revealed that under-employment, has increased in the West Midlands by three percent since 2010, affecting over a quarter of a million people in the Midlands.
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Posted Sep. 17, 2014

Codpiece – New Year Update

Codpiece has a jam-packed first term planned already, with the society really trying to explore and create experimental work in lots of different forms and styles.   We can’t officially reveal anything yet, but hopefully Freshers will be interested in the weekly workshops that will be on offer this term....
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Posted Sep. 14, 2014