Madeleine Wood

2 weeks ago | varsity.co.uk | Madeleine Wood

This spring, Emma’s June Event lost out due to lower than anticipated external sales. Then, Sidney’s Midsummer May Week Event was quietly felled late in the day, leaving Trinity Hall’s June Event clinging on precariously. Robinson had long swapped out their May Ball for a ‘mega-bop’. With intercollegiate deals appealing to Hill colleges still not enough to meet external sales targets, committees cut their losses and defer to benevolent larger scale balls offering discount tickets to those affected.

1 month ago | thetab.com | Madeleine Wood

“The boy’s so nice he came out twice” 5 seconds ago The Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club’s production of Everyone’s Talking About Jamie is warm, crackling and terse for all 165 minutes of its runtime. We meet Jamie New, a vivacious and energetic Mathew Weatherhead, who wants simply to be a drag queen. The problem? He is 16 in Sheffield. We follow Jamie and his charming found family through the pains of stigma and euphoric highs of self-expression.

1 month ago | thetab.com | Madeleine Wood

As the anguish and treason unfolds, members of this doomed royal unit hang up their coats and roll up their sleeves 5 seconds ago “I never doubted for an instant that you would have me put to death”. The Pembroke Players’ Antigone (Jean Anouilh trans. Lewis Galantiere) begins by telling us exactly how it will end.

1 month ago | thetab.com | Madeleine Wood

Despite starting with our couple going drinking from an AA meeting and taking us down every step of the way with them, until the last minute of its runtime Blackout Songs retains its power to shock. 4 seconds ago Art, Failing Memory and Annihilating Love. “You told me you loved me, once. You said you carried me. You remember that? You still carry me? Or did you drop me, somewhere along the line?”Memory is tricky in the Lady Margaret Players’ spin on Joe White’s Blackout Songs.

Dec 21, 2023 | tolerance.ca | Madeleine Wood

By Madeleine Wood, Lecturer in Childhood Studies, University of Essex With a joyful celebration of family love and communal bonds at its heart, Charles Dickens’s story A Christmas Carol has often been credited with creating our modern idea of Christmas. Published on December 19 1843, the rapidly and the story was immediately…Read complete article© The Conversation -