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Arts & Lit

Arts & Lit Interviews
Interview: Getting Close Enough with Cristina Varga, performer and co-founder of Everything But Theatre

by Rosie Peters-McDonald Apr 7, 2025 4 mins read

Rosie Peters-McDonald, Print Deputy Editor, interviews Devon-based performer and theatre company owner Cristina Varga

by Rosie Peters-McDonald Apr 7, 2025

Arts & Lit Reviews
Publishing and Literary Networks in the South West: Exeter’s MA Publishing 2024 Release

by Violet Berney Mar 13, 2024

by Violet Berney Mar 13, 2024 2 mins read

A look into this year’s MA Publishing book release: interviews, articles, and reviews all pertaining to the South West’s literary sphere.
Arts & Lit Features
LGBTQ+ Author Spotlight: Patricia Highsmith

by Florence New Mar 13, 2024

by Florence New Mar 13, 2024 3 mins read

Florence New discusses her favourite LGBTQ+ writer, Patricia Highsmith.
Arts & Lit Features
Maternal Relationships in Literature

by Rachel McEwan Mar 12, 2024

by Rachel McEwan Mar 12, 2024 4 mins read

Rachel McEwan discusses the portrayal of maternal relationships in fiction, and the pitfalls of such representations.

Arts & Lit Features
Male talent in the arts: Author spotlight

by Gracie Moore Nov 27, 2023

by Gracie Moore Nov 27, 2023 3 minutes read

Gracie Moore, Arts and Lit Editor, puts the spotlight on George Orwell when celebrating men’s contribution to the arts.
Arts & Lit Features
A classic of anti-war art: Guernica

by Agata Koralewska Nov 26, 2023

by Agata Koralewska Nov 26, 2023 3 mins read

In light of current global conflict, Agata Koralewska, Online International Editor, discusses the stalwart of anti-war art, Picasso’s ‘Guernica’.
Arts & Lit Features
Fifty Years of The Princess Bride

by Charlotte Jordan Nov 7, 2023

by Charlotte Jordan Nov 7, 2023 3 mins read

Charlotte Jordan reflects on William Goldman’s The Princess Bride and its significance fifty years on.
Arts & Lit Features
Irish Stories: the Morbid and Bodily

by Violet Berney Nov 7, 2023

by Violet Berney Nov 7, 2023 3 mins read

Online Arts & Lit Editor Violet Berney explores Irish stories that engage with the morbid and unsettling.

Interviews

Introducing Ambitious Performers: Exeter’s neurodiverse theatre scene

by Rosie Peters-McDonald Feb 15, 2025

Hawaiian shirts and one-liners: In conversation with Milton Jones

by Amy Rushton Dec 13, 2024

Why we’re all laughing – an interview with Pierre Novellie

by Emily S Rizzo Nov 20, 2024

“Ohh my god, my name’s Minty and you’ve ruined my life!” In conversation with Henry Rowley, from TikTok to stand up.

by Katie Matthews Sep 26, 2024

In conversation: Co-artistic director of Tarinainanika, Tania Coke

by Lauren Walsh Oct 13, 2023

Features

Republicans and Book-Banning

by Annabel Jeffery Feb 11, 2025

Science’s Influence on Art

by Izzy Horsfield Feb 1, 2025

Associate Company Slot Reserved for Exeter Students at the Northcott

by Judy Dodd Feb 1, 2025

New Year, New Reads!

by Magdalena Kanecka Jan 16, 2025

Haruki Murakami: Author Profile

by Maya Dallal Dec 15, 2024

Reviews

Roaring laughter: Hold On To Your Butts comes to Exeter Northcott

by Judy Dodd Mar 20, 2025

Review: Deep End

by Kayleigh Swart Mar 10, 2025

Review: Onyx Storm

by Beth Casey Mar 9, 2025

If We Were Villains: Queer Book Review

by Christina Chapman Feb 26, 2025

Review: ShakeCo’s Romeo and Juliet

by Eloise Grainger Feb 24, 2025

Creative Writing

The Return – A Poem for Mother’s Day

by Sam Bovey Mar 10, 2024

When You Came To Tea

by Gracie Moore Feb 18, 2024

The Empty Seat At The Table

by Agata Koralewska Dec 22, 2023

Tomorrow never comes

by Milly Earnshaw-White Sep 15, 2022

An Autumnal Transition

by Imogen Williams Oct 8, 2020

Latest Posts

Arts & Lit Features
Celebrating the arts during the Platinum Jubilee

by Alaïa Lafleur Jun 22, 2022

by Alaïa Lafleur Jun 22, 2022 5 mins read

Alaïa Lafleur discusses the importance of the arts in the context of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
Arts & Lit Reviews
Review: The Last Words

by Gwenllian Page-Gibby Jun 20, 2022

by Gwenllian Page-Gibby Jun 20, 2022 5 mins read

Gwenllian Page-Gibby reviews Theatre with Teeth’s latest production, The Last Words.
Arts & Lit Reviews
Review: Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World

by Lucy Evans May 20, 2022

by Lucy Evans May 20, 2022 5 mins read

Lucy Evans, Online Features Editor, reviews the new feminist musical Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World
Arts & Lit Reviews
EUTCO’s Ideation: a satirical thriller that pokes fun at corporate life

by Lucy Aylmer May 15, 2022

by Lucy Aylmer May 15, 2022 5 mins read

Lucy Aylmer, Deputy Editor, reviews EUTCO’s Ideation ahead of their Edinburgh Fringe debut
Arts & Lit Reviews
Book review: This is Going to Hurt

by Sophie Porteous Apr 30, 2022

by Sophie Porteous Apr 30, 2022 5 mins read

Online Lifestyle editor Sophie Porteous reviews Adam Kay’s bestselling book, This is Going to Hurt.
Arts & Lit Features
Banned books in the “land of the free”

by Isabel Langguth Apr 29, 2022

by Isabel Langguth Apr 29, 2022 5 mins read

Isabel Langguth explores the history of book banning and why it is still happening today.

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