Alexandra Neill

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has a long history of adaptation, including a posthumous continuation recently adapted for radio by BBC Radio 4. But how does this latest installment live up to Douglas Adams’ legacy of absurdist unpredictability?

As web platforms make creators more accessible than ever, fans are confronting the power structures that dictate how influence is distributed and wielded. In lots of ways, there’s never been a better time to be a fan. Thanks to social media platforms, it’s now easier than ever to directly interact with and influence the creators and stories we admire. Despite […]

When the best and brightest comedians are simultaneously fighting to justify their own place within the comedy industry, is the artform willing – or able – to ever really change?

As stand-up comedy’s diversity problems persist, comedians who don’t or won’t play by traditional rules are finding new ways to reach audiences. Hobart’s Chloe Alison Escott is one of them. Stand-up comedy has a diversity problem. Long viewed as the default mode of performance comedy – the norm from which alternate forms deviate – comedy […]