Revelations and figurations
Balliol’s Lecture Room XXIII is hardly ideal for a poetry reading. An unevenly lit basement without a hint of atmosphere, it seems more suited to a council meeting than anything else.
Drama: Swiftly disenchanted
‘Uses of Enchantment’ is unhelpfully described in the Artweeks brochure as an exhibition of new paintings by the artist Jan Crombie.
Drama: Orpheus in the underworld
Orpheus and the Underworld smacks of pantomime. Camp, irreverent and energetically executed, the Oxford Gilbert and Sullivan Society give Offenbach the Swinging Sixties treatment and manage to come up smelling of roses.
Drama: Claw
A white-clad figure glows in the spotlight, describing the beauty and the precision of his trade. He is, unexpectedly, a hangman.
Drama: Sylvia, Jeffrey Barnard is unwell
Meet Sylvia, a shameless flirt who quotes Homer and sings Cole Porter. The perfect woman except she’s a dog.
