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UMDS’ Start Swimming: Radically, powerfully pessimistic

UMDS’ Start Swimming: Radically, powerfully pessimistic

In Start Swimming, its final Autumn Fringe show, UMDS proves that it is not going anywhere

UMDS’ Playback: Supernatural family drama makes for an introspective watch

UMDS’ Playback: Supernatural family drama makes for an introspective watch

Playback brings sibling conflict and a deeply haunted house to UMDS’ Autumn Fringe

A wasteland full of meaning: UMDS’ It Speaks in American Review

A wasteland full of meaning: UMDS’ It Speaks in American Review

Daniel Grady and Maisy Nichols’ It Speaks in American is a striking take on quintessential Americana

UMDS’ Muffins: A mystery masterpiece

UMDS’ Muffins: A mystery masterpiece

UMDS’s corporate comedy of errors offers slapstick, wordplay, and baked goods

The Candidates: UMDS’s first show of the year provides confrontation and comedy

The Candidates: UMDS’s first show of the year provides confrontation and comedy

In The Candidates, Harry Petts and Dan Greenwood deliver a strong satire that drips with both farce and melancholy

UMDS’ The Postcode Lottery: Brand spanking new satire of class cruelty

UMDS’ The Postcode Lottery: Brand spanking new satire of class cruelty

Alfie Pullum and Maisie Bayliss’ The Postcode Lottery offers up a cutting commentary on hunter and hunted

The Exterminator review: Hilariously anarchic and beautifully poignant

The Exterminator review: Hilariously anarchic and beautifully poignant

Kara Hardie’s debut play The Exterminator is an anarchic and poignant two-hander, tackling personal space, occupation and power in a refreshingly funny and domestic manner

Wild Swimming review: A delicate journey through time

Wild Swimming review: A delicate journey through time

Boasting stellar performances and a story that spans several centuries, UMDS’ Autumn Fringe performance of Wild Swimming shifts delightfully between being a comedic period piece and a serious, thoughtful drama

Bull review: A stunningly effective corporate guilt trip

Bull review: A stunningly effective corporate guilt trip

UMDS’ production of Bull offers ringside seats to the most venomous of office conflicts

Be Home Soon: Manchester at the Fringe

Be Home Soon: Manchester at the Fringe

The Mancunion sat down to speak with Lily and Katie, part of the team behind the show Be Home Soon, to talk about student theatre, the difficulties in taking a show up to the Fringe, and their new play

Autumn Fringe Festival 2020 Showcase

Autumn Fringe Festival 2020 Showcase

Drama Society is showcasing their autumn fringe festival online to provide a creative platform for their members to show off their work

Review: Teabags in the Sink and A Room in Upper Slaughter

Review: Teabags in the Sink and A Room in Upper Slaughter

What do the everyday issues of a middle-class family and the not-so-everyday issues of two hired assassins have in common? Find out in this double-feature review