A Bigger Splash
Italian director Luca Guadagnino’s follow up to his 2010 melodrama masterpiece ‘I Am Love’, is a sun-drenched erotic thriller and remake of Jacques Derays’ psychological 1969 ‘La Piscine’ (The Swimming…
Centre Stage
Arts Editor, Bianca Serafini, meets with President of Sussex University Drama Society Anna Mould, Actor Alex Knapp and Director Elly Warboys. Q: Tell me a little about what each of…
SMUTS PRESENTS: CABARET!
The Badger’s Theatre Editor, Ollie Lugg, has a chat with Joshua Clayton, Director of the upcoming Sussex Music and Theatre Society’s Cabaret! Check your diaries at the beginning of March…
Pundek’s Pick of the Week
So, we’re in that shoulder season between Winter and Spring where the days are getting longer, but not much warmer. It’s all very confusing. However, here are two TV shows…
Shake Your Tail Feather – The Albatross 3rd and Main
Oliver Young When Simon David Eden’s directorial debut, The Albatross 3rd and Main, opened its world premiere in Brighton’s very own Emporium Theatre, I was not entirely sure about the…
Sussex Sour Apples – the Oscars
A few weeks ago one could have been forgiven for thinking this years awards season was fairly light-weight. In the previous two or three years we’ve seen a strong group…
Diversity and Representation: This Year’s #LilyWhiteOscar
Lucy Anna Gray Entering its 86th year, the annual Academy Awards has yet again been shrouded in controversy. The ongoing issue of lack of diversity in the film industry has…
Grey Skies Review
Saving the best for last, Grey Skies was hands-down one the best SUDS performance this term. An original play written and directed by Gabriel Owen — who is no stranger…
Old Times Review
Last week the Sussex University Drama Society performed Old Times, a 1970s play by Harold Pinter. Leading up to the performance I had been slightly sceptical at such an ambitious…
Spectre Review
One of the most anticipated and advertised films of the year has finally made it to our cinema screens. Bond is back. Daniel Craig’s fourth outing as the iconic British…
Subs Review
Opening with a scene in which the audience finds a smartly-dressed woman, later to be known as Rose, parading round the stage confidently and simultaneously independently, it is initially difficult…
Barbarians Review
The warm welcome I received from all the staff at the Former Central St. Martin’s School of Art, not forgetting the free copy of Barrie Keeffe’s 1977 play Barbarians, was…
Swingin’ on a Saturday
As I listened to Matthew VanKan open his night of celebrating Frank Sinatra with Fly Me to the Moon I was transported to a place of the past in which…
Diner: the best movie you’ve never seen?
“Do you ever get the feeling that there’s something going on that we don’t know about?” asks one of the character’s in 1982’s Diner. Centring on six friends hanging out…
‘Shirley Valentine’ Theatre Review
As I took my seat in The Marlborough Theatre and was greeted with Queen’s ‘I Want to Break Free’ I knew I was in for a good time. However, I…
Review: Appropriate Behaviour Q&A
Appropriate Behaviour begins and ends with a twenty-something woman on a subway train. The woman’s name is Shirin, a bisexual Brooklynite with Iranian origins. Throughout the comedy, we come to…
5 Great Female Characters in Film
To celebrate International Women’s Day, Badger contributor Jack Stockdale recaps some of her favourite female characters in films in the last five years. Winter’s Bone, dir. Debra Granik Set in…
Audience and the Hobbit: The Burden of Expectation
When adapting any popular book to the big screen, one of the most important and difficult elements of the process is staying true enough to the source material to satisfy…