The Stand
For students, by students 

Who knew that talking about trains for two hours could be interesting? Interchange is a Mermaids play written and directed by Pluto Conway, and its probing exploration of real social issues had me hooked from the start. Lucy Clark as James and Eilidh Reed as Violet. Credit: Mermaids. A railway crew deliberate on both future and past as their employment is threatened by the transition from steam trains to diesel. The railway is the perfect symbol for this transitionary period

We’re halfway through the semester, so that can only mean two things: first (not so fun), it's deadline season, where my coursework is piling up faster than I can say ‘I am the very model of a modern Major-General.’ Second, if my citation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most famous song is anything to go by, we’re now in the heart of student theatre season, where the weeks of long rehearsals finally pay off. Credit: @standrewsgands, Instagram Last week saw the endearingly notorious