b'Editorial NoteIt has been a while since Katie first mentioned the idea of producing a student journal to showcase the best of the departments academic work. Its easy for people to get a sense of our practical work, since that is shaped for an audience outside the discipline. Not many people get a glimpse into student essays, and there are only a few chances to witness their creative writing.Itthereforeseemedlikeagreatideatoproduceapublication alongside the T3 festival of performances.The Universitys Research-Led Education Incubator project offered a grant that supported this, as a one-off. Perhaps we shouldnt strictly call it a journal until we know whether it will run again, but we wanted to mirror the process of writing for an academic publication, including selection, peer review and high quality production. We have enjoyed working with a great team of editors from across the Drama years and including both single and combined honours students.We are delighted to be able to share this work, and hope that the students whose writing is showcased here can feel justly proud of their achievements and certain that their writing has a wider interest than just getting the grade.Itsgreatthatstudentsarewritingaboutsuchawiderangeof subjects (colourism, dyspraxia, nationhood and its representations, theatre history, class, the politics of adaptation and more), and we hope that it also demonstrates that studying drama is not just about performing, and not just about writing play analyses (however important these things might be). Instead, it is a lens for looking at how the world gets performed, perhaps with a focus on art performance, but with an eye to a wide range of cultural events and occurrences.We hope you enjoy it.Cathy Turner and Katie BeswickStudent Editors:Narissa Birtwistle, Elizabeth Brown, Jaime Corp, Monique Day, Anna Middlewick'