Alan Schuster gives a step-by-step guide on how to set up your own home chemistry lab for any skill level. Whether you are an amateur scientist or are looking for a way to invent the next miracle cure, setting up a home chemistry lab is a great way to have 24-hour access to your experiments. [...]
For Georgia Whitaker, home is where the heart is. For the past several days, I have been hiking my way through Torres del Paine National Park in southern Chilean Patagonia. My timing is not ideal—in April the ground is saturated with rainwater and ominous gray clouds hide what is normally an unobstructed [...]
Is Spring Breakers just trying to shock, or is there a deeper message somewhere within the colour and sound? Spring Breakers: Described by critics as Scarface meets Britney Spears. Also labeled as trashy MTV reality show turned art cinema. Intrigued? And if you’re not, well, then the overtly sexual and commercially viable female quartet including [...]
We here at Tribe Theatre love the quantity and quality of student writing in St Andrews. For the final edition of the 2012-2013 academic year we wanted to showcase one more example of student writing. We Long Endure is going up the 26th and 27th of April in The Barron, and is written by Dominic Kimberlin, a [...]
Lachlan Robertson reviews Angels in America: Millenium Approaches which went up in Venue 1 the 17th-19th of April. The major difficulty with producing a show such as Angels in America, one that has an inherent political focus specific to the time of its writing, is reestablishing its relevance. The play centres upon the issues of [...]
Katie Brennan reviews Sweet Charity which went up in Venue 1 through Just So during On the Rocks. Sweet Charity tells the story of a hopeless romantic and classic New York City dreamer, Charity Valentine, in her quest for love. This quest, it turns out, does not get off to the best start, as the [...]
In the wake of Baroness Thatcher’s death, the debate about what she did for feminism; a cause which she was no open supporter of, has exploded Margaret Thatcher is arguably the most controversial and iconic Prime Minister in the history of British politics. Even apolitical people have an opinion, and she divided judgment like [...]
Dominic Kimberlin reviews Joe Cunningham’s production of 6 Characters in Search of an Author, which went up during On the Rocks This was a really weird play, and happily one of my favourite kinds of weird. It’s the kind where the narrative suddenly gives way to another kind of narrative, which is commented [...]
The recent case in Steubenville, Ohio reveals quite how far we still have to go on the public perception of rape and its victims Rape is arguably the most misunderstood of all crimes. It is a concept that the media continually fail to accurately report, and this is just one of the reasons why it [...]
Lachlan Robertson reviews Dancing at Lughnasa, which went up during On the Rocks Beth Robertson’s production of Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa was a stark, yet beautiful production that became the highlight of my On the Rocks experience. With its live music, strong cast, and a precise understanding of realism, the show was [...]
Patrick Williamson looks at the origins of chemical life on earth. What is the origin of life? This question represents a “chicken or the egg” dilemma of vast proportions. It is hard to imagine how living organisms, in all their diversity and complexity, arose from entirely inanimate surroundings. Identification of the spark which initiated this [...]
Eilidh Glassey examines a variety of ways in which our bodies have been sculpted by evolution. The Human Unlike many other species, recent human evolution through natural selection has slowed down. I mean, since we developed weapons and guns, nothing really eats or preys on the human weaklings anymore. We are also not a species [...]
Think you’ve seen all of St Andrews? A house tour by Susanna Burns reveals the hidden marvels of interior design found within the Bubble. With two of our student alumni now able to call Buckingham Palace home, it is no wonder that the student flats of St. Andrews look like mini-palaces. Popcorn ceilings have been [...]
Emily Grant sent the director of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches a few questions about her upcoming show. Tribe Theatre: Part of the big deal with Angels in America was that it was so controversial when Millennium Approaches debuted in 1990. AIDS—one of the central themes of the show—was new and shocking then. Though AIDS is just [...]
