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Review: Guys and Dolls
Photograph: Andrew Morris Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Edinburgh University Footlights delivered a captivating rendition of the classic musical...
Rosie Tatham
Feb 17, 20242 min read
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Review: Haider
Haider (2014), UTV Motion Pictures Rating: ★★★★ One of the many facets of Hamlet’s brilliance is its everlasting obsession with “energy...
Ali Lakhany
Feb 16, 20244 min read
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Review: Mary: A Gig Theatre Show
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ The Last Dinner Party is playing on the speakers as you enter, the cast are intermingling on stage with the audience, and...
Florence Carr-Jones
Feb 8, 20243 min read
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School Reunion
Note: the form of this piece was inspired by Susan Sontag’s short story The Way We Live Now. Sontag’s text is available to read online at...
Maya Engwell
Feb 4, 20246 min read
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The ‘Rotting Girl’ Aesthetic: Madeline Argy and Pretty Privilege
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq ‘Clean Girl Aesthetic’ seems to have taken the Western world by storm. Everywhere I turn there’s a girl...
Ellie Valentine
Feb 2, 20245 min read
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The Broad’s Seasonal Recommendations: What to Read this Winter
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq The Broad’s Creative Editor, Srishti Ramakrishnan, has assembled a winter reading list of ten essential...
Srishti Ramakrishnan
Feb 1, 20246 min read
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The Broad’s Seasonal Recommendations: What to Watch this Winter
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq The Broad’s Creative Editor, Noor Kabbani, has compiled a list of ten films and TV shows to keep you...
Noor Kabbani
Feb 1, 20246 min read
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The Broad’s Seasonal Recommendations: What to Listen to this Winter
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq The Broad’s Creative Editor, Amy Norton, has curated a list of ten songs to embrace the frosty mornings...
Amy Norton
Feb 1, 20246 min read
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Review: Dracula: Mina's Reckoning
Thursday 12th October 2023, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh Rating: ★ ★ Attending Dracula: Mina’s Reckoning at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre...
Owen Thomas Webb
Jan 31, 20245 min read
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Unmasking the Realities of ‘Net Zero’
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq As COP28 draws to a close, the ‘Net Zero’ buzzword is ubiquitous as ever. Net Zero refers to reaching an...
Lara Engel
Jan 16, 20243 min read
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The Broad’s Seasonal Recommendations: Christmas Edition!
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq The Broad’s Creative Editors, Amy Norton, Noor Kabbani, and Srishti Ramakrishnan, have put together a...
Amy Norton, Noor Kabbani, Srishti Ramakrishnan
Dec 23, 20238 min read
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Review: Memento Mori
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ As the audience takes their seats for Noor Kabbani’s Memento Mori, ‘Little Dark Age’ by MGMT loops moodily round. It...
Sophie Wheeler
Nov 28, 20232 min read
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10 Years On: Adolescence and Disillusionment in Lorde’s Pure Heroine
In September, Kiwi singer-songwriter Lorde’s first album, her enigmatic and now iconic Pure Heroine, turned ten. A venue in Manchester...
Ella Manoff
Nov 22, 20235 min read
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The Broad’s Seasonal Recommendations: What to Read this Autumn
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq The Broad’s Creative Editor, Srishti Ramakrishnan, has put together a list of ten must-reads for this...
Srishti Ramakrishnan
Nov 16, 20237 min read
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The Broad’s Seasonal Recommendations: What to Watch this Autumn
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq The Broad’s Creative Editor, Noor Kabbani, has compiled a list of ten films and TV shows to keep you...
Noor Kabbani
Nov 16, 20235 min read
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The Broad’s Seasonal Recommendations: What to Listen to this Autumn
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq The Broad’s Creative Editor, Amy Norton, has curated a list of ten songs to get you in that cozy,...
Amy Norton
Nov 16, 20235 min read
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Mind, Body and Soul
My mind, a landfill that chokes on sorrow, crafts a noose out of a bespoke eclipse; chews pain, reluctant to spit or swallow, for either...
Aleyna Petts
Nov 16, 20231 min read
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Review: The Welkin
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ As 18th century Suffolk awaits Halley’s comet, twelve women hold the fate of Sally Poppy in their hands. Sentenced to...
Isabella Lapadula
Nov 16, 20233 min read
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Scotland’s Fate: A Plea to Non-Scottish Students at the University of Edinburgh
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq The University of Edinburgh is a strongly international space. While three-tenths of its undergrads are...
Robert Thorne
Nov 8, 20235 min read
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That’s the Price of Living
That’s the Price of Living MILTON is trying to relax in his living room. Wearing his brown dressing gown, slippers and stripey night cap,...
Owen Thomas Webb
Oct 23, 20238 min read
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