Building a House into a Home
Theatre Editor, Ali Arief, reflects on venue building and their love of Fringe Theatre Sometimes in life you find yourself…
The Legacy of Aeschylus
Theatre Editor Ali Arief speaks on the legacy of the Greek Play The Persians. I felt a certain kind of…
The Stage, Witchcraft & Ritual
Words by Ali Arief Witchcraft and the Occult are subjects that I study earnestly. Throughout my years of studying these…
Revolutionary Theatre: Les Misérables
Words my Molly Openshaw Looking at the journey of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, we can see how revolutionary it has…
Love & Information: A Review
Words by Ali Arief, Theatre Editor Relationships, friendships, connections, and love. From adolescence to adulthood, we strive to understand love…
Diana the Musical: Keeping it Camp, not Classy
Words by Ali Arief If I’m perfectly honest I think this was the most bizarre musical I have ever watched.…
Review: Leopoldstadt
A review and personal familial reflection on Tom Stoppard’s touching play Words by Rob Barrie I have experienced very few…
Why We Don’t Need a Princess Diana Musical
Words by Ali Arief, Theatre Editor On the 1st of October, an absolute lesson in complete distaste is going to…
SUDS: Getting Involved, Auditions And Excitement
Words by Ali Arief, Theatre Editor Sussex University’s well known, well-loved and highly popular Drama Society (SUDS) is reopening with…
A Review of The Woman in Black
By Ali Arief I would be lying to you all if I said that I wasn’t super excited to see…
A Well Awaited Festival
Words by Elijah Arief Brighton is set to play host to it’s annual Brighton Fringe Festival on the 28th of…
What's on this summer in Brighton
Words by Robyn Cowie With optimism that theatre’s shall be reopening their doors to crowds, albeit with social distancing and…
BlackStage UK: Fighting Microaggressions, Assumptions and Institutional Racism in the Theatre World
Words by Elijah Arief BlackStage UK is a platform which seeks to support Black artists and creators within the theatre…
I co-directed a play over zoom and it went like this
Words by Jessica Hake This term I co-directed a zoom play with Will Greensides. Being theatre editor and an actor…
Theatre’s to Reopen May 17th Says Downing Street
Words by Elijah Arief Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on the 22nd of February during a government briefing that theatre’s…
‘On the day testing’ is Key to Theatres and Nightclubs Reopening
Words By Elijah Arief On February 15th the Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave a Downing Street briefing detailing how lateral…
‘The Container’: A Digital Theatre Review
Words by Elijah Arief Clare Bayley’s fast paced, paranoid and stomach wrenching play The Container is the piece of theatre…
How has the Coronavirus pandemic affected Drama at Sussex?
Words by Megan Taylor The Coronavirus pandemic hit the UK all the way back in January 2020 and it is…
Unspoken Rules, ‘Getting it Wrong’ and Adaptive Superheroes: Nuerodivergency in Theatre Spaces
Words Elijah Arief In a world of rigid social structures and unspoken rules, where certain cues and the ‘right way…
Sussex Musical Theatre Society (SMuTs)
Words By Harrison Fitzgerald At Sussex, as I am sure you are by now aware, there are literally hundreds of…