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Welly Ball Launch — 'nothing special'
One of the greatest joys of Freshers' Week is that first-years haven't discovered anything outside of the Market Street thoroughfare yet...
Callisto Lodwick
Sep 10, 2024


Top Five Things to Do in Freshers
Throwbacks: Freshers Edition WHEN? Monday, September 9th, 10:30pm-3am WHERE? The Vic BUY TICKETS? https://fixr.co/event/throwbacks-xo...
Daisy Finefrock
Sep 7, 2024


Edinburgh Fringe Special: Covenant is Meticulously Crafted
For the first three minutes of Turning Point Theatre Company’s Covenant, you would be forgiven for thinking you were watching a piece of...
Callisto Lodwick
Aug 16, 2024


Szentek’s Moving Castle – Reviewed
Whoever had the idea to start hosting daytime student events, I give you all of my love. The pace is different, the excitement is...
Natasha Currie
May 23, 2024


Spectacular Singing and Gorgeous Lighting Make up for a Baffling Plot in ‘Jekyll and Hyde’
Every year, the eternally-weary Musical Theatre Society committee must sift through potential productions, desperate to find the diamond...
Callisto Lodwick
Apr 9, 2024


Faustus Might Be Doomed, But ‘Doctor Faustus’ Is a Winner
A very special surprise awaits the audience at the end of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. As the unfortunate titular character is...
Callisto Lodwick
Mar 13, 2024


The ‘Future’ of FS – FS 2024, Reviewed
To paraphrase Rodger and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music, how do you solve a problem like a success? While the proposition may sound...
Nicole Entin
Feb 27, 2024


Galentine’s Cards, Crafts, and Cocktails with Women for Women
With deadlines looming and procrastination levels reaching dizzying new heights – or perhaps I should say new lows – I went down to...
Millie Tougher
Feb 19, 2024


Trojan Women @ Freshers’ Drama Festival, Reviewed
In this version of Euripides’ classic, relentless tragedy about the aftermath of the fall of Troy, the gods are indifferent bureaucrats...
Nicole Entin
Jan 26, 2024


Deadline Distractions For A Gloomy November
Now that we have entered the purgatory that is November, we are stuck in the in-between space where we can just about see our freedom but...
Sarah Tait
Nov 27, 2023


Welly Ball 2023 – Reviewed
The aftermath of a rain shower earlier in the day meant that I could make the most of my polka-dotted welly boots on the evening of 4...
Nicole Entin
Nov 20, 2023


Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair in Macbeth: Wonderfully-Directed Witches and Beautiful Costumes Can’t
Before the lights have even dimmed at Macbeth, you’re in for a show. A woman clad in a skirt the colour of earth shuffles and deals her...
Callisto Lodwick
Nov 19, 2023


Fright Night 2023 – Reviewed
As I sit here writing this article, coughing my lungs up and contemplating whether or not whatever I’ve caught can still be classed as...
Millie Tougher
Nov 6, 2023


Violent Delights Have Violent Ends – St Andrews Students Bring a Dazzling Version of Macbeth to the
*The author realises the quote used in her title is not from Macbeth; however, she likes it too much not to use it. *** Macbeth and his...
Callisto Lodwick
Nov 6, 2023


Playing Puppet: Cyrano de Puppet Excels at Comedy, but Falters When it Tries to Turn to Something Serious
As the audience flocked into the Barron at the Byre on a cold October night, the keen-eyed amongst them began murmuring with...
Callisto Lodwick
Oct 25, 2023


The Kate Kennedy Charity Opening Ball 2023 – Reviewed
Having not been to the Kate Kennedy Club’s Charity Opening Ball since my second year, just as Covid-19 restrictions were lifted, as a...
Hannah Peart
Oct 13, 2023


Top Five Things To Do
Monday 9th October Art Soc X Music Fund Arty Open Mic Night 21.00 – 23.45 at The Student’s Union Join The Art Society and Music Fund for...
Hannah Peart
Oct 9, 2023


Top Five Things to Do
Monday 2nd October GeogSoc Pub Quiz 20.00 at The Rule GeogSoc’s first pub quiz of the year!! Bring a team along or come and meet people...
Hannah Peart
Oct 2, 2023


DTF: Fresh Meat – Feeding Freshers’ Week Cravings
As I write this article, sniffling away at my computer with what I refuse to believe is Freshers’ Flu, I have to put my hands in the air...
Christy Forshaw
Sep 26, 2023


Starfields 2023 – Reviewed
I’ll admit that I knew very little about Starfields prior to attending the event on Saturday 9th September at Lower College Lawn. I had a...
Charlotte Rabeie
Sep 21, 2023
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