Entertainment·7th March 2015Review: The Architect OxStu Stage ā®ā®ā®ā® Bird song, distant applause, a urinal next to a lorry next to a flower bed. The residents of Eden... Read More
Entertainment·27th February 2015Review: Blood Wedding Charlotte Vickers ā®ā®ā® On the whole the works of Lorca tend to be characterised by their musicality and their poetic nature. Trevesā... Read More
Entertainment·27th February 2015Preview: The Architect Alice Strasburger Dom Applewhite (The Pillowman) continues his voyage into experimental theatre with a novel approach to fending off the critics.Ā Intrepid... Read More
Entertainment·23rd February 2015Review: Broad Street Dancers – ‘Dynamica’ Delights Phillip Babcock It isnāt often when you can feast your eyes on a dance performance that offers such a huge range of... Read More
Entertainment·23rd February 2015Preview: Captain Amazing Amelia Brown Captain Amazing is invincible ā a run in with the sun causes him no more than a ālight tanā and... Read More
Entertainment·19th February 2015Review: Twin Primes William Shaw ā®ā®ā®ā® As I stumbled into the dimly-lit Burton-Taylor studio to see the last entry into the OUDS new writing festival,... Read More
Entertainment·28th January 2015Review: ‘The Dumb Waiter’ doesn’t disappoint Amelia Brown ā®ā®ā®ā® Silence, waiting, waiting. Gus (Adam Leonard) ties his shoelaces. Gus unties his shoelaces to find a squashed and empty... Read More
Entertainment·26th January 2015Preview: PotosĆ certainly looks promising Matthew Clarke Jonathon Oakmanās new play Potosi is set entirely in one room. The bedroom to be exact. James (Shrai Popat) and... Read More
Entertainment·21st January 2015Preview: Richard Parker Amelia Brown Two men are stranded out at sea, nursing starved stomachs and contemplating their potentially imminent deaths, by starvation, by sharks,... Read More
Entertainment·5th January 2015Provocative new musical ‘The Scottsboro Boys’ does not disappoint Amelia Brown ā®ā®ā®ā® In the darkness of the theatre the sound of cars can be heard rumbling past. One light shines upon... Read More
Entertainment·30th December 2014‘Made in Dagenham’ offers feminism, floral 60s pastels and fun Amelia Brown āIt aināt about the money. Itās equality,ā says Connie, a disillusioned union representative, paving the way for equal pay for... Read More
Entertainment·19th December 2014Wheeldon’s Wonderland is curiouser and curiouser Amelia Brown ā®ā®ā®ā® It is the story we all know and love: rabbit holes, caterpillars and playing cards. Christopher Wheeldonās new ballet... Read More
Entertainment·4th December 2014The Anxiety of Influence: David Hare calls for new playwrights Anthony Maskell āTheatreā, according to David Hare inĀ a 2011 interview with the National Theatre, āis a young peopleās gameā. The playwright... Read More
Entertainment·27th November 2014Notes from the Dressing Room Olivia Sung Next up, Assassins, the OāReillyās penultimate Michaelmas show and itās Sondheim, so you know itās going to be a banger.... Read More
Entertainment·27th November 2014The Oxford Imps: It can prove more difficult to get into the Imps than Oxford uni Philip Babcock The outrageously funny new generation of Oxford Imps will make their grand debut live on stage at the Wheatsheaf pub,... Read More
Entertainment·26th November 2014Preview: The Country Amelia Brown As I arrived at the preview for The Country I was embroiled into a brutal game of header football to... Read More
Entertainment·19th November 2014Review: Monkey Bars Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan ā®ā®ā®ā® I got my first taste of Monkey Bars last Saturday, at a rehearsal in St. Johnās. Director Siwan Clark... Read More
Entertainment·14th November 2014Notes from the Dressing Room Olivia Sung So this is one absolutely harassed costume designer reporting from the frontline of what may be this termās craziest production:... Read More
Entertainment·14th November 2014Jerusalem: “a carnival of sensory delights” Anna Sheperd ā®ā®ā®ā®ā® Barney Fishwick is Johnny āRoosterā Byron in Will Feltonās captivating adaption of Jez Butterworthās play Jerusalem, an intoxicating concoction... Read More