Articles by Amy Milka


Amy has written 15 articles for Nouse


On the Arts Trail

Amy Milka discovers York’s cultural side.

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Peter Pan

Contrary to popular belief, Pantsoc is not a society dedicated to pants. As director William Seaward explains; “We’ve got nothing against pants.

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Langwith Summer Arts Festival

This year, the Langwith Provost, John Issit, and a group of enthusiastic students got together with a common goal: to further the regeneration of the college with a day devoted to arts.

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The Cut, Drama Barn

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The Drama Barn was packed out for the last evening of The Cut, an intense production of Mark Ravenhill’s play.

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Morocco: the Hitchhiker’s Guide

This Easter, Amy Milka joined the annual student migration to Africa. She remembers the OAPs, squaddies and French fascist who helped her to blag her way across the continent.

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University Dance

Amy Milka slips on her dancing shoes and boogies with some University dance societies

University dance has received mixed publicity recently. The cliquey image associated with performing arts in general is hard to shake off. But, as the build-up to the extravaganza that is Fusion continues, I find out what’s going on and how to get involved.

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What’s On

Meditainment
A therapeutic cinema experience
19 – 25 January
City Screen

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Spotlight On Illuminating York

Illuminating York, York Minster until 28 January Despite the heavy scaffolding covering the eastern side of the Minster, Paul Kaiser and The OpenEnded Group have created a dazzling light exhibition, with their project Recovered Light. With the backdrop of the Great East Window, the light acts as an ‘x-ray’, illuminating what lies behind. As projected [...]

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Theatre Reviews

Oh yes it is! Sarah Jeffries and Amy Milka report for our panto special At any mention of pantomime I can’t help but conjure images of inescapable jollity and headache-inducing colours, so I was wary at the prospect of Cinderella at York Theatre Royal. However this is no ordinary panto. Written and led by Berwick [...]

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Chicago, York Grand Opera House

An antidote to a dreary January night: immerse yourself in the “old razzle-dazzle” of Chicago. The musical has once again been revived and is on the road, even stopping in York for a fortnight, and filling the Opera House to bursting point.

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Coming Soon: Drama Barn

DramaSoc puts on student productions at the Drama Barn every Friday, Saturday and Sunday of term at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £3 for Fridays and £3.50 for members, £4.50 for non-members and are available Thursday and Friday 12-2pm from Vanbrugh Stalls, or on the door. Spring term will see a variety of productions showcasing York’s student talents.

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York’s other Gallery

Amy Milka swaps boob tubes for pashminas when she visits the city of York’s other Gallery

Contrary to student popular opinion, there are two Galleries in York. In one, you can expect to be doused in dubious champagne, and possibly even bodily fluids. In the other, you can expect to pass a leisurely Sunday afternoon and not spend the entirety of the next day cocooned in a duvet drinking Tetleys.

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The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, Michael Baignet, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln

It seems the country is gripped with Dan Brown fever. I remember my last few years working in a bookshop, watching The Da Vinci Code fly off the shelves, lamenting every copy of the ill-written, trashy phenomenon. I detest the term “summer reading”.

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Chroniclers of the Wind, Henning Mankell

Chroniclers of the Wind marks a departure from author Henning Mankell’s usual line of crime fiction, although it explores some similar thematic issues. The novel is full of little amusing but sad anecdotes about a street urchin in an unnamed African port town, Nelio, renowned throughout the city for living on his wits. It is also about Jose Antonio Maria Vaz, a baker who hears gunfire and finds Nelio on his roof.

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White Blood, James Flemming

From the author of Thomas Gage and Temple of Optimism comes a gritty new offering: Fleming takes us on a journey which spans continents and makes and breaks lives. Through the eyes of his naturalist protagonist, Charlie Doig, we encounter a fascinating world of science and intrigue, with enough political and romantic confusion thrown in to keep the pages turning. Fleming’s descriptions are detailed and uncompromising without being tiresome, while his characters are edgy and complex.

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