The hall of shame

University students have a rough reputation. We’re noisy after 11pm, can’t get out of bed before midday, and we’re dodgy chefs. The closest we come to “getting our greens in” is a bowl of pesto pasta and our reperotire doesn’t extend far beyond pizza and chips. Running the Food & Drink section can be challenging, for this reason so this week we’re giving in and showcasing the reality of university kitchens. This week isn’t about the meal-prepping, batch-cooking, got-mylife-together student. There’s no stu ed peppers, sauted chicken, quinoa salad. It’s pasta, sausage rolls, chips, and nuggets, sometimes all at once.

Please enjoy this carefully curated gallery of culinary masterpieces. We hope you come away feeling inspired to be bold in your aprons. Mix ketchup with rice, chargrill chips, defy cooking instructions, and embrace your inner university student.

Anonymous Collingwood (B. 2002) A Carnivore’s Peas, 2023 except fruit and veg,

In the above artworks one can observe a motif of ketchup. These masterpieces, produced in summative season, thus call to mind the phsycial pain of university work as the condiment has bloody connotations. The colour palette of the above artists is also worth noting. Beige, with smatterings of green, these artists highlight the mundanity of life, interspersed with flashes of brilliance, as symbolised by the bright green pea.

DISCLAIMER: This article is entitled ‘hall of shame’ but really, we’re just impressed. These meals are the pinnacle of creative freedom, and risk-taking. Eton mess was literally made from a desert being dropped on the floor and then eaten. In a similar vein, sausage rolls and pasta might look like a mistake, but who are we to judge. There is no shame when it comes to food, we just wanted to grab your attention, hehe.

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Who wrote your favourite film? Can you name more than ten playwrights? Since the dawn of time, actors have literally stolen the limelight and directors have been worshipped for their bold, arti endeavours. Now, I’m not here to trump their achievements. Their creative contributions to society are invaluable in their own right. However, they are the beneficiaries. Much like a house cannot stand without strong foundations, neither can a cast and crew without a stellar script.

It seems playwrights deserve to be applauded, just as much as their fellow content creators. After all, without their experiences, outlooks on life and bravery to choose to write their ideas down some of our most loved stories would cease to exist. A world without your favourite musical…no thank you. With the Olivier Awards closely approaching to celebrate the prior year’s recent theatrical triumphs, I thought I would shed some light and share the stories of playwrights who wrote the productions that are predicted to be nominated. Although no one will receive a Best Writing nomination, it doesn’t exist…

Susie

An Australian-British playwright, Millers West End debut was Facia. This play took the West End by storm, drowned in five-star reviews from multiple media platforms, and is now being transferred to Broadway. Her path into playwriting may not be the most obvious! Originally studying Immunology and Microbiology at Monash University and then studying law and working as a human rights lawyer, it was once Miller had started a family and decided to move to London that her writing career really took o . Having won the Kit Denton Fellowship award for writing with courage in 2008, Miller has established herself as a daring writer who has set the cast and crew of Prima Facia in a very strong position lightly more well-known, and extremely well-loved is British playwright Mike Bartlett. Having studied at English and Theatre Studies at Leeds University, his plays have been staged in the National Theatre, Almeida Theatre, Royal Court Theatre and multiple others. His first plays earnt him the reputation as a ‘miniaturist’ as his plays focused on snapshots of contemporary life. That soon changed after his play hit the stage with a colossal cast of 80 – definitley not as small-scale as his previous work. His plays are always inventive and often combine theatrical qualities that are unusual. The majority of his plays are still contemporary and are always extremely relevant. In the running for an Olivier award, this year is The which premiered at the Old Vic Theatre. Written in blank verse, it imagines a world with the attention surrounding who will become president after Joe Biden.

Jeremy O. Harris is an American playwright who began life in a military family, which meant he moved about a lot. He studied towards a degree in acting at The Theatre School at DePaul University for a year until he was cut from the program. He then went to The Yale School of Drama where he received a Master of the Fine Arts in playwriting.