And… Breathe..
The fact that I’m going home for Christmas tomorrow doesn’t seem real. This term has been such a blur – the shortest I’ve ever had! To all you first and second years, it may seem tough at times, but try …
Category: Theatre
Posts about the Department of Theatre
Welcome
Dear New Student, Congratulations on securing a place at Bristol University! You’re probably feeling excited but also a bit apprehensive about starting your course in September, but don’t worry – that’s completely normal. I have just graduated from Bristol with …
Approaching Graduation
It’s an odd feeling to find myself on the other side of the degree. Three years seems to have flown by, but also seems to have been the busiest and fullest time of my life. My placement with the Tobacco …
Directing and Decision-Making
It’s the start if my last term at Bristol University, and time to be making big decisions about the upcoming year. Over Easter I have been working on my two industry placements – spending daytimes at the Mayfest office working …
Deadlines, Dissertations, Placements and Plays
After a busy first term working on Devised Performance, I spent Christmas catching up with my English reading and working on my dissertation. As it was due in mid-January, I spent a lot of the holidays researching, writing and refining …
Celebrating Christmas in Theatre
There must be a word for being incredibly happy, excited and extremely busy and simultaneously ridiculously tired and ready for the end of term. The atmosphere in the last weeks of term is a buzz of exhaustion, joy and contentment. …
Third year: a packed first term
This term has been busy and demanding, with lots of work and a dissertation deadline looming, but it’s been incredibly enjoyable with great drama modules: Contemporary British Theatre and Devised Performance. We’ve just finished our intensive period for Devised, a …
Studying classic theatre and producing a show myself
It’s nearly Christmas, which not only means that Park Street is twinkling with fairy lights and we are walking around with hoods up, scarves on and cinnamon-spiced lattes, but also that I have nearly finished my first term! I think …
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