New semester, new list of things I wouldn’t mind setting fire to… [Before I start off, might I add as a disclaimer that just because I hate some clothes you happen to own doesn’t mean I hate you, or the way you dress in general. I might do, but I assure you that will be [...]
We here at Tribe Theatre are constantly impressed by the quantity and quality of student playwrights in St Andrews and want to help showcase their talent by publishing snippets of their work. On the Rocks presents us with an amazing opportunity to do this because not only are the theatre productions in the Student Arts [...]
To travel, to see – what’s in your mind may not be what’s out there – but what’s out there is probably even better than you believed. It begins before the suitcase is even packed, when the notion of a journey is just an inkling of an idea budding in your head. And it becomes [...]
Georgina Sankey shares her recent drawing of a working man’s ageing hands. This is what happens as you age: you can never hide your age with your hands. Georgina Sankey
Tribe Theatre has been working with the On the Rocks Student Arts Festival (OTR) staff to get the word out about upcoming shows. OTR asked Joe Cunningham, the director of Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello, a few questions about his upcoming show. Six Characters in Search of an Author goes [...]
Natalie Keir looks at the eccentricities of some of history’s most eccentric scientists. The great Albert Einstein once proclaimed: ‘The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination’ Being a generally rational person, I tend to believe Albert when he says something is true. I therefore thought it would be interesting to examine the [...]
Seeing South Africa as a tourist is fun, but having a mission, and seeing it through that, makes for an experience out of the ordinary, says Zoë Hofstetter. Have you ever travelled with an academic purpose rather than a touristic one? Well, it has a tangible effect on one’s sense of self-importance, making the ego proudly [...]
Andrew Butterfield explores the reasoning and rationale behind homophobia. It might seem bizarre for me as a gay man to try to take a sympathetic view on homophobia, but that is precisely the reason why I feel as if I should try. I have to know why people, who I have never met and that [...]
Eilidh Glassey looks at the surprising link between wealth and happiness. When Googling the word ‘happiness’, Wikipedia gives the definition: ‘Happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being characterized by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy’. How to achieve happiness, however, is something that cannot be generally defined and is disputed [...]
Lillie Arnott hates on being a grown-up and mourns her childhood. A structured and timetabled life begins to infringe upon the spontaneity of the young. I know a guy who thought that last semester he was the son of God and the re-incarnation of T.S Eliot, it turned out that these false beliefs did not [...]
An exhibition displaying a collaboration between poets and artists from Fife and Shetland is on display at the St Andrews’ Town Hall until April 27th. Can poetry be visual? And can art be poetic? An ongoing exhibition at the St Andrews Town Hall responds in the affirmative. In a wonderful display of Scottish creativity, the [...]
Tribe Theatre has been working with the On the Rocks Student Arts Festival (OTR) staff to get the word out about upcoming shows. OTR asked Will Land, the self-described ‘initiator’ of ‘People Like Us’, a few questions about his upcoming show. ‘People Like Us’–A Playlet goes up at 6:00pm on Monday the 8th of April and [...]
Tribe Theatre has been working with the On the Rocks Student Arts Festival (OTR) staff to get the word out about upcoming shows. OTR asked Beth Robertson, the director of Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel, a few questions about her upcoming show. Dancing at Lughnasa goes up at 7:30pm on both Thursday the 11th [...]
We here at Tribe Theatre are constantly impressed by the quantity and quality of student playwrights in St Andrews and want to help showcase their talent by publishing snippets of their work. On the Rocks presents us with an amazing opportunity to do this because not only are the theatre productions in the Student Arts [...]
