photo gallery: literature and creative writing celebration evening

The Literature and Creative Writing teams wish their graduating students of 2017 all the very best for the future!

On 26th May, the Literature and Creative Writing programmes hosted a celebration evening for their graduating students.

The evening featured speeches by Subject Directors Abi Curtis (Creative Writing) and Anne-Marie Evans (Literature), YSJU alumna and editor of Aesthetica magazine Cherie Frederico, and award-winning students from the class of 2017.

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Everything is Possible / Constance and Eva: An Interview with Kimberly Campanello

By Bethany Davies

Kimberly Campanello is Lecturer in Creative Writing at York St John University, where she is currently developing a play called Constance and Eva. The play tells the stories of Constance Markiewicz and Eva Gore-Booth, two Anglo-Irish sisters who were active in the campaign for women’s suffrage. Constance and Eva, directed by Luke Davies, will be staged between 17th and 27th September at the Bread and Roses Theatre, London (tickets here). Bethany Davies, whose review of the recent York Theatre Royal production Everything is Possible is available here, caught up with Kimberly to discuss the project and examine the contemporary importance of the suffragettes.

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Everything is Possible: An Interview with Lydia Crosland

By Nicoletta Peddis

Lydia Crosland was part of the cast of Everything is Possible, the story of York Suffragettes (review here). She also happens to be a student at York St. John University, where she studies English Literature and History. She has been a part of West Yorkshire Playhouse’s Youth Theatre since its inauguration and she is currently working as an assistant for York Thetare Royal’s Youth Theatre. Lydia’s next project is Amphibious for the Takeover Festival 2017, which will take place at the Theatre Royal between 23rd and 28th October. I met her to ask her some questions about her experience in the community project but also about her opinions on some of the issues portrayed in the show.

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Review: Everything is Possible at York Theatre Royal

By Bethany Davies and Nicoletta Peddis

Everything is Possible, the story of York Suffragettes, took place at Theatre Royal from the 20th of June until the 1st of July. Directed by Julie Foster and Katie Posner and written by Bridget Foreman, it celebrates the successes and commemorates the suffering of the suffragettes in York between 1912 and 1918. The play rotates around the central character of Annie Seymour Pearson (Barbara Marten), York’s only suffragette ever to be arrested. Apart from Marten, the only professional actor in the cast, Pilot Theatre realized a large-scaled community project involving 150 people.

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