REVIEW BY ELLA CALLOW-SUSSEX EDITED BY RACHEL THORNBY Grease is the word, and it comes with a lot of history. You would be hard pressed to find an audience member filing into the Union House Theatre without expectations of what Trinity College’s Grease will look like. In their pre-show speech Trinity College was the first to acknowledge much of the show’s themes and messaging have dated … Continue reading Trinity College’s Grease: It’s Electrifying!
Reviewed by: Dempsey Doyle Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald narrative classic The Great Gatsby is not only an ambitious, aesthetically stunning filmic experience, but an ode to the lavish yet licentious times of the Roaring Twenties. Considered to be both a cinematic and literary masterpiece by many, Trinity College rose to the trials that come with portraying the tale’s melancholic merriment. … Continue reading Swinging Into the Jazz Age With Trinity College’s ‘The Great Gatsby’
The programme for Trinity College’s 2018 production, Rhinoceros, states the college’s move away from more serious theatre to something funny. Perhaps the most studied piece of absurdist theatre in the world after Waiting for Godot, this play certainly is ripe with comic potential. The students at Trinity have, accordingly, provided a hilarious, madcap rendition of Ionesco’s work. Being an allegory for fascism, the weighty themes … Continue reading Rhinoceros: What’s Grey, Weighs a Ton and is An Allegory For Fascism?
Trinity College’s High School Musical is a blockbuster production. With more than twelve musical numbers and a main cast of fifteen, plus a substantial chorus, there’s barely a moment to catch your breath, let alone feel bored. It might be due to this grand scale that so much of the show feels chaotic, but it’s also this energy that draws the audience in. The cast … Continue reading High School Musical: Charming Chaos
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