Yotam Livni

It’s a unique experience to see a play being conceived right in front of your very eyes. On Friday 20th March I was invited to a rehearsal reading for a student play written and directed by Montague Austin. The show consisted of three actors, who for the first time would sit together and become the characters they would read from the script, all in front of a live, intimate audience. ‘Your Land’, derives its name from the Woody Guthrie song, This Land is You...

During the 1993 Nigerian election crisis, we follow two brothers, Akin & Remy (Godwin Egbo & Chibuike Egbo) as they spend the course of a day in Lagos with their estranged father, Folarin (Sope Dirisu). The film begins with this outstretched meditative sequence between the two boys as they are at home alone getting along with their day. This calm is shattered as their father returns home. What follows is an emotional epic through the vast, turbulent city of...

Approaching this piece, having never written an interview article, seemed a daunting task. With over 30 pages of transcript to read over, all rich with information, I couldn’t imagine how I’d fit it all neatly in a way that would make it worthwhile and enjoyable for people to read. That's when it came to me.I realised that there’ll be many people who like me come to a point in their university life where things are coming to a close. You begin to wonder how y...

Brenda Callis’s new production, Smalltown Boy, is messy, camp and unapologetic – just like its main character ‘Edie,’ a young drag queen who has recently experienced the loss of their partner, ‘Leo.’ This 75-minute, dialogue-led drama is full of heart and humour, using drag performance to explore isolation, grief, healing, homophobia and community as it thrusts our star into a small town on the coast of Cornwall to meet Leo’s family, which Edie had never hear...