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Typical Girls: Punk Perfection

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Typical Girls is a thrilling play about five women in a specialised prison unit who come together along with their music teacher Marie played by Lucy Ellinson to learn songs of the all-female punk band The Slits, to later perform at a concert. 

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Where it Started (Acting Bio).

Born in West London, then moving to Kent, Leicester and now Sheffield, I have been blessed to have been exposed to a wide variety/forms of art and been lucky enough to have indulged in several parts of unique and rich culture within each city. I beli

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Typical Girls and it's unique theatre style.

Last week, we attended our first performance of hopefully many at Sheffield's most popular in-the-round theatre, The Crucible. Typical girls breathed a breath of fresh air into the space. Involving music and well written characters, it was a really e

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New Beginnings at Endcliffe Park

During welcome week we travelled to Endcliffe park with the acting students from every year. This was a very fun experience and really helped me come out of my shell. This was important to me because I am a shy person and it can take me a while for m

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Her Journey to us, the wait.

This was my first workshop study at University, I took part in a workshop with Juwon and learnt about the historical and political sides of emigration whilst also studying a poem called Originally. We spoke about ways in which we would speak and rela

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Typical Girls: A better School of rock

Two years ago, we were told by Boris Johnson that we needed to adapt our lifestyle in order to save ourselves and the NHS due to covid. While we were stuck inside watching TV and ordering Chinese takeaway; the theatre industry was in peril. Theatre v

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An Untypical Start: Review and Reflect

"Start as you mean to go on". Considering recent experiences at Sheffield hallam Univeristy, that is how i would describe my first few weeks on the BA Acting & performance course. Covid has been a fact of life for so long that finally being able to c

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Typical Girl(s)

Why are you crying?! Is it because Typical Girls directed by Róisín McBrinn was that incredible? Or Terrible? No! This was me after waking up from a fevered nap 30 minutes late to watch it with my classmates. A typical girl you could say, never on ti

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Welcoming Little Amal

The walk project is about a little girl called Amal who is a refugee and she is going on a journey from Turkey to Europe, stopping in Sheffield and Manchester along the way. In representation of Amal there will be a puppet that is 3.5 metres. Amal is

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Typical Girls is one of the best shows I've seen. This wasn't only down to the fact that the acting, writing and stage design was impeccable, but because Typical Girls is extremely female, it has a completely female cast, singing songs from a complet

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Typical Girls: A Lesson in Punk

Punk subculture and its derivatives have always fascinated me, primarily for the incredible works of music and art it has produced; taking the power to create from media-packed corporate tune-factories and placing it into the hands of people, often l

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First year reflection


Coming here i was already prepared in terms of this module. In college we made websites and shot showreels and headshots, when this module started i really did want to refine my brand and website as i knew there was still much more i could do to…

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" A cabbage !"


"feels like fragments of a mosaic" - The Guardian 2019 is a beautiful way fo describing this play.

When me and Mae were first told we would be doing a doulouge together we were really pleased. We know we are reliable and can work well…

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Voice actors needed for audio comedy!


Second year screenwriting students need voice cast for their audio narrative series:

Gene B. Hammerfist - Middle aged, cocky and narcissistic (The host of the radio show "Hammerfisted")
 
Clive - The shows producer…
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Mankind's Soundboard


We were given an instruction and introduction to Foley sound, the art of creating sound effects using sometimes bizarre methods that actually create rather genuine sounds. A particular example of this bizarreness was to use the crunching of…

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bubbles


today we experiemneted with foley sound. This was my  first expereince doing things like this. This morning we learned about how the expererts use different things to create everyday sound. Examples of this includes using hands on a wooden floor…

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(I)t came from outer space...


Our newest piece of work was the creation of an audio performance, an audio tour to be specific. The brief was to create one based on the Sheffield ampitheatre that combined actual historical facts as well as some original information, which is…

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the discovery


when we first got the task to create an audio work for the amphitheatre I didnt even know it was a place. So when we wnet in our class break i was plaesed to discover its right next to wear i live. When i visisted I made sure to take olots of…

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