Welcome to The Grapevine!

Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasise about a world we aspire to.

— Willem Dafoe.

Welcome to The Grapevine blog! This has been a long time in the making, mainly due to the fact that I’m a Drama/English student as opposed to studying Media or Graphics! But the blog is here now, in all it’s free subscription glory #budgeting.

This blog isn’t just for the committee – it’s for you! We want this to be a platform where drama students can document their journey through university, whether that be writing a diary of their time at Edinburgh Fringe or what they found beneficial from the annual Gulbenkian Fest. In turn, we want to fill our blog with reviews of student shows, like HUDDEEs and Events Nights, as well as of shows in Hull.

We welcome all reviews, however if you have a particular interest in critiquing and watching theatre then make sure you join the GRC’s Communications pool, to be launched in September alongside other tech pools that include stage management, costume, and construction. As a member of the Communications pool, you will be specifically asked to review theatre created by students and around Hull – your review would be of a minimum 200-word count and published on The Grapevine blog after being approved by your Communications Reps, Cerys and Jae. Your review may even make it in to The Grapevine booklet, published at the end of every trimester!

The GRC (Green Room Committee) have a lot planned for the next year, starting with our Drama Freshers Week coordinated by our Social Secretaries, João and Scott. Information about this will be available in the Freshers Welcome Pack, which will also be uploaded as a file on the Hull University Drama Page for current students to read.

That’s all from me for now!

Cerys (Communications Rep)