Drama
Bewick College is located somewhere in pretty central OX1. By my reckoning it's somewhere between Broad Street and the High. It's a big place with multiple quads, one of which is entirely cubic, and it features some of the finest stonework in Oxford. Don't be surprised if you don't know anyone from Bewick: it seems a pretty insular place. The undergraduates sit around constructing elaborately complex plots to capture the key JCR positions of Welfare Officer and Sports Rep, and the old graduates, back for a Gaudy, seem unhappy that they ever left....
Drama: More Drama
With a setting that has to be inspired from the vast sandwich shop which Oxford occasionally appears to resemble, the opening of the BT's first "new writing" offering this year, "Next Please" will be instantly familiar to anyone who has ever gotten hungry whilst in the vicinity of the High Street or Covered Market. Set in Di's bakery, the play explores the differing relationships between people in the workplace and at home. The characters and pleasant humour initially appear more than a little reminiscent of the sitcom "Dinner Ladies," providing gentle amusement. However, the mood darkens, and an essential misery and lack of emotional connection in the lives of the central characters reveals itself, culminating in a sensitively underplayed scene by Poppy Burton-Morgan and Richard Bradford, leaving their characters, and the audience with a sense of bleakness....
