Author: OxStu Stage

It isn’t often when you can feast your eyes on a dance performance that offers such a huge range of styles from tap to ballet to burlesque, and music from multiple genres including jazz, pop, hip hop, and disco. Yet, all of these elements are beautifully interwoven in the Broad Street Dancers’ upcoming performance of […]

✮✮✮✮ Silence, waiting, waiting. Gus (Adam Leonard) ties his shoelaces. Gus unties his shoelaces to find a squashed and empty cigarette packet lodged beneath his sock. Removing this, he reties them. Ben (Tom Marshall) reads the Sun disapprovingly, lying on his bed, braces on, waistcoat at the ready.

Two men are stranded out at sea, nursing starved stomachs and contemplating their potentially imminent deaths, by starvation, by sharks, even by each other. Richard Parker 2 (Ieuan Perkins) wolfs down his hidden stash of sardines, whilst Richard Parker 1 (Jake Boswall) pours out his fears of death. Imaginary shark fins are created in a […]

“Theatre”, according to David Hare in  a 2011 interview with the National Theatre, “is a young people’s game”. The playwright believes that what we are currently experiencing on the stage is a rare and anomalous “historical freak” in which there are too many old dramatists dominating the world of theatre, such as Alan Bennett, Tom […]

Next up, Assassins, the O’Reilly’s penultimate Michaelmas show and it’s Sondheim, so you know it’s going to be a banger. So far the process has been as far a cry from Jerusalem as you could imagine: (a) All my limbs are, at the moment, fully-functioning (touch wood); (b) I actually know what the costumes are […]

The outrageously funny new generation of Oxford Imps will make their grand debut live on stage at the Wheatsheaf pub, 129 High St. on 1st December at 7:20pm. The evening promises to be one of the highlights of the Michaelmas term for the comedic troupe, which has become renowned for delighting crowds with its crazy […]

As I arrived at the preview for The Country I was embroiled into a brutal game of header football to get us all warmed up (needless to say I was not very good), and so was somewhat exhausted when I flopped down onto a chair to watch the first scene of Martin Crimp’s play. The […]

✮✮✮✮ I got my first taste of Monkey Bars last Saturday, at a rehearsal in St. John’s. Director Siwan Clark discussed her own motivation for putting on a production of the award-winning show from her mother’s work with vulnerable children, as the cast acted out a selection of scenes. Seeing the whole production in the […]

So this is one absolutely harassed costume designer reporting from the frontline of what may be this term’s craziest production: Will Felton’s interpretation of the Butterworth/Rylance smash hit, Jerusalem. There’s nothing quite like Show Week to get a costume designer at her (or his) wit’s end: no matter how many months you’ve spent preparing yourself […]

✮✮✮✮✮ Barney Fishwick is Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron in Will Felton’s captivating adaption of Jez Butterworth’s play Jerusalem, an intoxicating concoction of debauchery, anarchy and allegory. It is St George’s Day in Flintock, Wiltshire, and the modern-day pied-piper, coaxing youths into the forest with alcohol and amphetamines, is facing imminent eviction from his static mobile home. […]