Articles by Holly Williams
Holly has written 16 articles for Nouse
‘You Can’t Control How Your iPod Shuffles’
By Holly Williams — June 23, 2009
The billing of You Can’t Control How Your iPod Shuffles as a multimedia piece was somewhat misleading. I entered the barn expecting some arty, techno-savvy ‘experimental’ student drama. Actually, it was a comedy sketch show
Austen, Dickens and Another Wet Shirt
By Holly Williams and Jennifer Carlson — November 11, 2008
As the nights draw in and a Dickensian fog descends over York, you know it’s costume drama time on the BBC. And if you’re watching a TV adaptation of a literary great, chances are you’re watching something penned by Andrew Davies.
The Glass Menagerie, Drama Barn
By Holly Williams — March 6, 2007
[rating: 3]
Date: 09/02/07 – 11/02/07
Emma Miles’s production of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie was ideally suited to the Barn’s intimacy; the play claustrophobically takes place in a house in which a mother and her two children are psychologically and financially trapped.
The political poet: from Ireland to Iraq
By Holly Williams — November 28, 2006
Holly Williams talks to Pulitzer-winning poet Paul Muldoon about his new collection, Horse Latitudes
Think of Irish poetry and it’s likely that, after pausing on canon heavyweights like Heaney and Yeats, your thoughts will turn to Paul Muldoon, one of Ireland’s most successful living poets.
Penpal to the rich and famous
By Holly Williams — November 7, 2006
Holly Williams chats to Duncan McNair about his inquisitive alter-ego, R.M. Morello
Have you ever wondered what Tony Blair’s favourite wild flower is, how John Prescott would feel about having a bull terrier named after him, or what to do when your pet goat gets diarrhoea at the sight of Dale Winton? Well, neither had I, but in the manner of all good novelty books, The Morello Letters gives you answers to questions you never knew you wanted to ask.
York thesps swap University Drama Barn for fame at Edinburgh Fringe
By Holly Williams — October 11, 2006
This year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival was graced by ten productions from York University. An actor, a director and a groupie relive their festival stories
Tom King
Edinburgh, as anyone who has ever visted will tell you, is an endurance trial. If you were to watch every show at the Fringe back-to-back it would take you almost two and a half months of non-stop theatregoing and, as most of us only attend for a few days, the pace required to see all that you want to see is pretty back-breaking.
Arts Reviews
By Holly Williams — October 11, 2006
Holly Williams offers you a guide to the theatre venues on and around campus, and our book reviewers look at a selection of student guides and recipe books.
Nosh 4 Students, Joy May
By Holly Williams — October 11, 2006
Like many student cookbooks, Nosh 4 Students seems to think that without a stupid name and a cover that resembles a 70’s light-up dancefloor, your average student won’t be persuaded to cook. It’s a shame, because if you can get past the text-speak title, this book is actually quite helpful.
A harvest of literary talent
By Holly Williams — June 27, 2006
For one weekend every year a sleepy village in Wales is transformed as the Hay-On-Wye literary festival descends, as Holly Williams discovered.
The Hay Festival might not seem to have much in common with your classic summer festival – there’s no danger here of anyone dressed as a fairy offering you drugs, the toilets are a civilized affair and the focus is on general books rather than raucous rock. But arriving on the Saturday morning, there is one thing already in common – mud. Well, this is Wales after all, and returning to my soggy homeland, I’d expect nothing less.
York’s talented new playwrights
By Holly Williams — May 26, 2006
Holly Williams considers the opportunities available for new writers in the theatre scene In his recent appointment as artistic director for the Globe theatre, Dominic Dromgoole has made a commitment to emulate the original conditions of Shakespeare’s Globe, ‘the greatest new-writing theatre in the history of the world’, when the stage was filled with the [...]
Man and God and Blasted
By Holly Williams and Holly Williams — May 26, 2006
Rosanna Trigg and Holly Williams take a look at Man and God and Blasted – two controversial productions for this term, one playing on and one off campus
No man, and certainly no student at York University, can claim to know the answers to the questions posed by modern cynicism. However a valiant attempt at some humorous philosophising is always welcomed by the Drama Barn audience, and Chris Bush’s newest offering certainly proves more satisfying than the traditional drunken debate. Indeed, an answer to the question of whether a God flawed enough to have created an imperfect world would be accepted by its naturally sceptical inhabitants is attempted with wit and originality.
Arts Reviews
By Holly Williams — May 4, 2006
Holly Williams looks at what theatre is coming up in York this summer and our reviewers look back on some modern classics
This term’s line-up in the Drama Barn looks set to be one of the most varied and interesting yet, from new writing to musicals, to French poetry and physical theatre. The term high-kicks off to a dramatic start with a fund-raising cabaret during week 2, promising to bring together a mixture of comedy, drama and musical numbers for your entertainment and to raise money for student productions planning to go to the Edinburgh Fringe this summer. Go on, show your support! Performances take place at 7.30pm, Friday to Sunday.
Titus Groan: Book 1 of the Gormanghast Trilogy, Mervyn Peake
By Holly Williams — May 4, 2006
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the publishing of the first part of Mervyn Peake’s Gothic trilogy. Introducing us to the sinister world of Gormenghast, the novel is dense with Peake’s meticulous and evocative detail, creating a tangible other-world for the reader.
Lamb dressed as mutton: the cult of vintage clothes
By Holly Williams — March 14, 2006
The Granny might just be the most unlikely style icon. Yet, if recent trends are anything to go by, Holly Williams explains, it is indeed your aging relative’s wardrobe which will get you most outfit envy from rival fashionistas.
So just how do you pull off the vintage look? Well, anything that’s old, is good. It’s an eclectic sort of fashion trend – you can choose your era, or mix them up.
The Night Watch, Sarah Waters
By Holly Williams — February 20, 2006
Waters swaps the corsets and crinolines of her previous novels for post-war Britain, but, like her other work The Night Watch has a cleverly constructed plot, precise capturing of historic detail, and a focus on the unwritten lesbian relationships of the time.
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