Articles by Nan Flory
Nan has written 29 articles for Nouse
The world’s rudest word
By Nan Flory — March 14, 2006
Nan Flory examines the role of the most infamous and taboo word in the English language. Or tried to until the Evening Press took legal advice, and decided we weren’t able to print the full uncensored word
The word of the moment is currently c***. One need only refer to the March edition of Vogue and its three-page, Deborah Orr feature on it for confirmation. On campus, the Drama Barn production of Electra prominently featured the word and then there is the recent revelation (it was news to me, at least) that innocent little Grape Lane, in all its El Piano, vegetarian glory, used to be called Grope C*** Lane – the red light district apparently. It is a word that everybody needs to tackle at some point or another.
Gagarin Way is going to Scarborough
By Nan Flory — March 14, 2006
The National Student Drama Festival, or NSDF, is the most prestigious student theatre showcase in Britain. Held annually in Scarborough and now in its 51st year, the week long festival is an opportunity for students to share their work with their peers and with an illustrious audience of theatre practitioners who, almost more importantly, also lead workshops and discussions with attendees.
Better than a degree?
By Nan Flory — February 20, 2006
Nan Flory meets Fusion President Caroline Jee and other students balancing their degrees with demanding extracurricular activites
In the cold winter months it can be difficult to keep up appearances; grooming just doesn’t get prioritised when skipping the beauty routine allows for another half hour under the covers. We are all sun-starved and disillusioned, half way through the academic year with another odious 14 weeks looming.
Straight outta Tang Hall: the rise of York Hip-Hop
By Nan Flory — January 30, 2006
Nan Flory explores the recent explosion in York’s hip-hop scene. Talking to York’s own Mad Science Project, and to London-based Fenna, provides an insight into this growing subculture
Traditionally, hip-hop belongs to New York, people who can spell their names with their fingers, poverty, graffiti, tracksuits: pretty much everything York is not famed for.
The Theatre: Guardian Angel of AIDS Awareness
By Nan Flory — December 12, 2005
A student production with relevance beyond the Drama Barn? Nan Langfeldt-Flory looks at how Angels in America, in conjunction with Student Stop Aids Society, has reawakened awareness of HIV / AIDS on campus.
The 1st of December was World AIDS Day – an opportunity to regenerate awareness of a condition which is a potential threat to us all. Here in York, Martha Paren, Chair of the University branch of the Student Stop AIDS Society, organised a week of events aimed at putting the issue of AIDS back into the spotlight.
Conserving the freedom to offend
By Nan Flory — November 30, 2005
Nan Flory spoke to Richard Thomas about his controversial opera, coming to York’s Grand Opera House in February.
Even in its infancy, Jerry Springer: The Opera, the controversial show by Richard Thomas and Stuart Lee, faced adversity. When he spoke to me from his London office, Thomas, who wrote the opera’s score and collaborated with Lee on the libretto, told me that most people greeted his ambition to make a stage show out of America’s most infamous daytime TV programme with: ‘That’s a rubbish idea’.
Tarantula, Thierry Jonquet
By Nan Flory — November 30, 2005
This bizarre thriller from French author, Thierry Jonquet, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith, introduces us to the delight that is twisted plastic surgeon, Richard Lafargue. Lafargue hideously abuses his wife, Eve, keeping her locked in the basement and whoring her out to strangers, something Jonquet uses to jam as much sado-masochistic sex as possible into this slim volume.
The Kitchen Diaries, Nigel Slater
By Nan Flory — November 30, 2005
I unashamedly adore Nigel Slater, dutifully saving his lovely recipies from his Observer column and firmly following his adage, established in his earlier book, Appetite, that a recipe is merely a guide – cooking is all about inventive improvisation. Now, when I haven’t been shopping for weeks and have only frozen peas and lentils to live off, but want to cook lasagne, I’m no longer afraid to ‘do a Nigel’ and experiment.
Sweet Panic at the Drama Barn
By Nan Flory — June 24, 2005
The weekend of week six, Francesca Seeley brought Stephan Poliakoff’s Sweet Panic to the Drama Barn. The play is a dark piece which follows the relationship between child therapist Clare Atwood (Panda Cox) and the neurotic, obsessive mother of one of her patients, Mrs. Trevel (Becky Baxter).
Bold new future for City Gallery
By Nan Flory — May 9, 2005
Hiding on the outskirts of York City centre there is a little known centre of culture: the York City Art Gallery. Set up in a temporary wooden building in 1879 for the second Yorkshire Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition, architect Edward Taylor designed the permanent gallery which was opened as York City Art Gallery in 1892. However, in recent years the gallery, run down and dilapidated, has not been popular as York’s many other cultural attractions and the gallery was closed on 6th June 2004.
Sniper, Pavel Hak
By Nan Flory — May 9, 2005
Pavel Hak’s short novel is a violent account of an imagined war in an unnamed country, clearly inspired by the terrible conflicts in the Balkans.
Tobias Wolff, ‘Old School’
By Nan Flory — March 8, 2005
I’m an old skool girl; I’ve got my 1982 Air Force One high-tops, my Casio F-91W digital watch (that’s right, the one you had when you were eight) and, if my housemates, who have to walk with me to lectures every morning, would let me, I would probably lug a boom box around on my shoulder, instead of my discman. As such, when I heard that Tobias Wolff was publishing a book called Old School I couldn’t wait to read it.
Sex, Status and Success
By Nan Flory — March 8, 2005
Marin Hirschfeld’s steamy production of Roland Schimmelpfennig’s Push Up brought 80’s yuppies in power suits to the Drama Barn. The play is a collection of duologues between employees of an anonymous international corporation, topped and tailed by monologues from the office’s security staff. The result is an insight into the emptiness of the company’s staff’s lives; they are corporate successes but emotional failures, unloved and lonely. The only sane, happy characters are those not involved in the struggle for that top job, the two security guards.
Not so Far Away
By Rebecca Hammond and Nan Flory — February 12, 2005
How often do you watch the news or read an article in the paper about something horrific – a war, a famine, a natural disaster – which is taking place in a far off country? Are you disgusted by it? Do you think how awful it is that nobody does anything about it?
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