Alan Ayckbourn’s play, Woman in Mind, is the first co-production by Dundee Rep Ensemble with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and is directed by Marilyn Imrie. In inimitable Ayckbourn style, a woman’s mental breakdown is dramatised with humour, surrealism, poignancy and pathos. Concussed by her garden rake, Susan (Meg Fraser) starts to regain consciousness just as Read More
Edgar Allan Poe once said of the short story that it must have a “single mood and every sentence must build towards it”. On this count, Ilo Ilo works more like a short story and less like a novel. An accomplished film, Anthony Chen’s debut is undertaken with a surefooted understanding of character and a Read More
The Interior Environmental Design show at this year’s degree show, demonstrates perfectly the potential for social impact that goes on in the studios of applied practice in DJCAD. With a variety of projects aimed at tackling serious social problems, the work was certainly enlightening for a lay person such as myself. Several of the projects Read More
When one admits to studying graphic design at University, the response from outsiders is often ‘So, that’s all on computers then?’ This year’s Graphic Design Degree Show demonstrates that the course is anything but confined to the keyboard, as the graduates have produced fantastic work displaying their many varied talents in print, 3D sculpture, illustration, Read More
The Digital Interaction Design Degree Show is an opportunity for the public to see the result of a year’s work by the recent graduates. At the beginning of their 4th year, students are asked to create their own brief and come up with a design solution for it. This results in a wide variety of Read More
After last year’s textile degree show there was a lot to live up to for this year’s crop of graduates, but they’ve more than succeeded. The most interesting aspect about this year is the variety of inspirations at the heart of the final year collections. Ranging from Mother Nature to man-made structures, small towns to Read More
This year’s Time Based Art show boasts artists working in fields ranging from performance to sculpture to documentary, producing works as diverse as hand stitched embroidery to musical guns. Edward Humphrey experiments with broken narratives in his film exploring nature, death and rebirth with the clever juxtaposition of filmed scenes and imagery and a word Read More
This year’s product design exhibition is, as always, eagerly anticipated. Sharing its space with digital interaction design, it is one of the most exciting and engaging exhibitions at the degree show. On entering the exhibition, it is very clear that it is not just the students’ work which has been meticulously put together; the display Read More
Fine art students in this year’s degree show have really set out to impress, with a diverse range of approaches to printmaking teamed with an exciting and innovative approach to exhibiting. Working towards the surreal, Anna Fennell Hughs has created a wonderful selection of multi- media prints that illustrate her own short story. Based on Read More
Following on from a series of successful independently organised shows including Four Days x Four Years, Translations (Generator) and New Realms: Myths and Mysticism (WASPs) this year’s degree show artists have already shown the strength of their work. The real question was: can the Degree Show deliver the same punch? The attraction and uniqueness of Read More