Author: Becki Watson

Kicking off the Easter holidays, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists is the first 3D-stop motion film produced by Aardman Animations, the producers of other family favourites such as Chicken Run, Flushed Away and Arthur Christmas. Released on 28th March, the complicated stop motion system means that the film has been in production for over five years (it takes a week to shoot 5 seconds of film), and it definitely does not disappoint. The Pirates! follows the adventures of the ambitious Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) and his crew, which  includes his second mate The Pirate with a Scarf (Martin…

If you happened to be passing JP Hall on the 24th, 25th or 27th of November, and saw Roman soldiers, noble ladies and gentlemen with daggers running around, fear not! Following their enormously ambitious – and successful – 48 hour play project, the first full production by the Bangor English Drama Society (BEDS, to those in the know) of the new academic year took place. And what better way to kick off a new semester of theatre than with one of Shakespeare’s Roman histories, Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar is all about politics; it portrays the conspiracy against the Roman ruler…