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New ‘We Will Rock You’ play at Knox!
Lights, music, and performance! That’s what the audience mainly focuses on within a show, but what happens behind the scenes? How do the actors and actresses feel? We'll be interviewing and discussing the show with a couple of actors and learn about their opinion on theatre.
Our first interview is with Lucian Kapasi - who’s playing the role of Khashoggi - to share his views so far on the show!
Q: If you could star in any movie, which movie would it be, and which character?
A: I would quite like to be Darth Vader from Star Wars.
Q: Do you like the role you have? Is there anything you would change about it?
A: I like the role I have, I don’t think I would change it.
Q: Do you enjoy music or dance? Do you play any instruments?
A: Yeah, I enjoy it. I’ve played the trombone for about five months.
Q: What do you think of Queen? Do you have any specific songs you like?
A: I like Queen, but there's not really any songs that I would call my favourite out of theirs.
Q: Do you plan to do more acting in the future?
A: I don’t think I will continue acting after this, but I've really enjoyed the opportunity.
Thank you very much Lucian for letting us interview you.
We also interviewed Samuel - who’s playing one of the Bohemians - to tell us about his experience!
Q: What has been your favourite part of being in this show?
A: For the most, just hanging out with the other cast members and getting to know new people.
Q: What made you want to audition for the play?
A: I actually didn’t, Lucian (Khashoggi) asked me to join for a lesser part! Which I of course accepted.
Q: Do you specifically like the band Queen, and did that influence your choice to audition?
A: It’s not really my music taste, but I’ve been listening to them repeatedly to learn the lyrics for the play.
Q: What has it been like overall to be in the show?
A: I’ve only been rehearsing for a couple weeks, and I already love it! I would recommend it highly!
Q: Do you plan to continue performing after this?
A: Absolutely, I’m planning to audition for the next show, and might even pursue an acting career, haven’t quite made up my mind yet.
Q: If you could've been any other role, who would you have auditioned for?
A: Probably Oz, or one of the bohemians.
We are all excited to see how the show turns out, and to witness it in its full glory!
The school show of ‘We Will Rock You’ will be at Knox from the 3 June until 5 June! For further updates, please keep checking the school news website and until then keep ‘havin’ a good time’.
Co-written by Aubin Motion, Issy McGonigle, and Lexie Campbell
Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary
The other day I watched the newly released movie ‘Project Hail Mary’ starring Ryan Gosling as Grace and James Ortiz as Rocky. This movie is like a combination of interstellar (10/10 movie as well) and E.T. It already has a 95% rating on rotten tomatoes and a 4.8/5 stars on the popcornmeter. Some people are already considering it to be on par to Interstellar, The Martian, Arrival and Gravity.
I really enjoyed this movie; they created some beautiful scenes that really made you connect with the character and feel as if you are experiencing everything with them. Originally Rocky's voice was going to be added later on but as Ryan and James were working they started riffing off each other and James ended up creating most of Rocky's lines.
Grace is a relatable character that everyone can sympathise with and connect with.
Grace being alone in the ship for so long and then finding a companion really moves the viewer and makes us feel genuine emotions for him.
Ryan Gosling's acting was impeccable in this movie, and I can usually see when someone is acting but this felt so incredibly real. I kind of couldn't believe it.
For me this movie was a 10/10 and I will definitely be re-watching it as many times as possible. I would recommend it to pretty much anyone!
Elle Davies
Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival
Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival
Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival returns to the National Museum of Scotland on Saturday 11th of April!
Edinburgh is hosting this film festival as a part of the Edinburgh science festival, taking place during April. The Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival is a celebration of conservation stories from around the world that will inspire, engage, and inform you about some of the many projects helping to protect the world's biodiversity, in Scotland and around the globe.
Come and discover some of the many projects and people who are helping preserve global biodiversity. The films will be followed by a panel discussion about the role storytelling plays in inspiring environmental restoration and protection, and a prize-giving ceremony for the winning films.
Delilah Brady
The 98th Annual Oscars - All you need to know!
The 98th Annual Oscars - All you need to know!
On Sunday 15th March 2026, many people gathered at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles to celebrate the 98th annual Oscars ceremony, a night of recognition and celebration for all of the big films, rising actors and production elements that make the world of film possible of the year.
What are the Oscars?
The Academy Awards, or better known as The Oscars, are an annual awards ceremony for artistic and technical merit in film. Many films, actors, film score, film designers and more can be nominated in categories like “Best actor/actress”, “Music”, “Production Design” and “Casting”. The lucky winners of the award for each category are decided by 10,000 Academy members and the winner for a certain category is only chosen by people of that category, e.g only actors vote for best actor, with an exception for best picture, which is voted for by everyone.
Who hosted the Oscars this year?
The 98th annual Oscars were hosted by American Television host Conan O’Brien, well known for Saturday Night Live (SNL), The Simpsons, and The Conan O’Brien Show. O’Brien also hosted the 97th Oscars last year, making it his second year in a row where he has hosted the much loved ceremony.
What are the categories and who won?
For the 98th year of Oscars, there are 24 categories varying from “Actor in a supporting role” to “Writing (original screenplay)”, but what other categories are there and who was the lucky winner within each category?
Best picture
One Battle After Another
Actor in a leading role
Michael B. Jordan in Sinners
Actor in a supporting role
Sean Penn in One Battle After Another
Actress in a leading role
Jessie Buckley in Hamnet
Actress in a supporting role
Amy Madigan in Weapon
Animated feature film
K Pop Demon Hunter
Are Ballet and Opera still alive?
On the 21st February, actor, Timothée Chalamet (who was nominated for ‘best actor’ for his role as Marty Mauser in the 2025 film Marty Supreme - which was also nominated for 8 other Oscars) was in an interview where he touched on the future of film and theatre, where he said “I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera you know, or things where it’s like ‘Hey, keep this thing alive’ even though it’s like no one cares about this anymore.”
The clip went viral on social media with much backlash towards Chalamet with the performing arts community defending the much loved elements of theatre with many people pointing out the irony of the comment as Chalamet has had multiple of his own family members work in the performing arts industry, with his mother and sister both being former ballerinas and his grandmother a former broadway dancer.
Close to a month after the interview and 1 week after that clip started circulating social media, Timothée Chalamet lost his Oscar nomination for best actor in Marty Supreme to Michael B. Jordan for his role of twins, Smoke and Stack in Sinners and the other 8 oscars that Marty Supreme was nominated for had also lost to the other nominees. People have said that this was karma for his comment that dismissed two large elements of the performing arts industry which are still alive, popular and still thriving to this very day.
K Pop Demon Hunters
The growing in popularity animated film K Pop Demon Hunters won both oscars that it was nominated for in the categories of Best Animated film where it won over Disney and Pixar films Zootropolis 2 and Elio and also Best Original Song, in which Golden, took the win.
The hit song from the film “Golden”, that won the Oscar for Best Original Song was also performed at the ceremony by Kim Eun-jae, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami.
Moulin Rouge! Reunion
The stars of the 2001 hit film “Moulin Rouge!”Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor reunited after 25 years as they presented the award of the Best Picture to One Battle after Another while also singing a section of their cover “Love Song Meledy”.
The two actors played the star crossed lovers, Christian and Satine in the 2001 film which followed the story of Christian, a young English songwriter who moved to Montmartre, France and was in the process of writing a play to be performed at the world renowned Moulin Rouge and he began to fall in love with the showgirl, Satine. The problem was that their love was doomed from the start as Satine was betrothed to the Duke de Monroth who was funding the Moulin Rouge and Christians show, so should they give up on the show for love or repress their strong feelings for each other for the sake of the show? In the 2002 Oscars, Moulin Rouge! had a whopping eight nominations and won two Oscars; Best Costume Design and Best Production design!
It’s a tie?!
Believe it or not, it is possible for a tie to happen at the Oscars, but it is very rare; but not for this year's ceremony. For the first time in 13 years, where at the 85th Oscars in 2013 Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty tied for Sound Editing, a tie happened at the award ceremony this year, where both ‘The Singers’ and ‘Two People Exchanging Saliva’ both won as the winner for Live Action Short Film. As of this recent tie, there has now only been seven in Oscars history! All of the times that those seven ties happened were in 1932 with Fredrick March and Wallace Beery for best actor (but apparently it turned out that it was one vote off from a tie so after that, they declared it would only be counted as a tie if they received the exact same amount of votes.), 1950 with So much for so little and A chance to live for Best Documentary Short, 1969 with Barbara Streisand and Katharine Hepburn for Best Actress, 1987 with Artie Shaw: Time is all you’ve got and Down and out in America for Best documentary feature, 1995 with Franz Kafka’s It’s a wonderful life and Trevor for Best live action short, 2013 with Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty for Best Sound Editing and most recently in 2026 with The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva for Live Action Short Film
Who has the most nominations and wins for this year?
It is common for bif films to receive multiple nominations and wins. This year, Sinners starring Michael B. Jordan has broken Oscar records by earning 16 nominations in total and 4 wins! Sinners has beaten the record of most nominations set by the 1997 film Titanic starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio which received 14 nominations and won 11 awards at the 70th Annual Oscars in 1998. Although Sinners was nominated for the most Oscars, the film which won the most awards this year was One Battle After Another starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn which ended up winning 6 out of 13 nominations.
As you can see, there have been many memorable moments at The Oscars this year and many wonderful awards handed out to recognise hard work, dedication and talent! A huge congrats to everyone who won awards and all the backstage crew, as well as all of the people who made the awards ceremony possible, as there are so many elements that go towards hosting such a big award show like The Oscars which wouldn’t be possible without their work.
Lily Darling
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