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Arts & Culture Coverage from The Saint

Inside St Andrews' own National Student Drama Festival Selection

On the making of Moth and Dog Are Trying to Get Out On Friday 10 April, St Andrews Art Theatre (STAAT) put on a production of Moth and Dog are Dying to Get Out at the prestigious National Student Drama Festival (NSDF) in Leicester. The company, as producer Ava Pegg-Davies explains, focuses on staging contemporary plays. “What we try to do with STAAT is have really minimalist script-driven performances that don't rely on big flamboyant props and sets, and just rely on good dia

Alex Brubaker

Love in the Bubble

Love in the Bubble 295

Apply for The Saint — it might get you a girlfriend Everyone wants a cute meeting story. It’s a guaranteed smile and chorus of cooing ‘awws’ when you’re introduced to her friends and she starts recounting how you rescued her from a shark or a burning house, while you sit there with a bashful smile. Meeting stories matter because they hold two stories at once: how you met each other, and how you both happened to be in that exact place at that exact moment. It’s why I’ve never

Love in the Bubble: Is There Space For Us?

Have you ever thought the universe folded in on itself just to make room for us? Have you ever thought forever was something you could cup in your hands — fragile, trembling — and keep? Because I did. I still do. We’re lying bare in my bed — the sheets still warm, the air thick with everything we did and didn’t say. It isn’t a special night. The alcohol hums through my veins like static, whispering that this must be real, that the universe really did bend its edges to make s

36 Hours

36 Hours in Berlin

After your train from Berlin Brandenburg Airport has inevitably been delayed or cancelled, courtesy of the famously unreliable Deutsche Bahn , it will probably be dark by the time you arrive at your accommodation. With your pre-conceived notion of German efficiency shattered, head to an ATM. Berlin’s approach to payment seems trapped somewhere in the late 1970s – it wouldn’t surprise me if some restaurants still operate a barter economy. The other thing to note about Berlin