Literature

Shirley Jackson, Horror and ‘Feminine Perversity’

**trigger warning for sexual assault**   Although Halloween has already passed us by, as the nights draw longer and the evenings colder, I’d like to consider one of the spookiest novels that I have ever read. Many of you may, like me, will have recently binge-watched Netflix’s loose adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Haunting of […]

Chekhov’s ‘Uncle Vanya’ : An investigation of the value of authentic performance in association with Durham University Classical Theatre.

Why should humanities students see this play? Read on to hear producer Isobel on the virtues of authentically performed Chekhov.