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If there’s one thing I learned about Erik Feig from speaking with him, it is that he is a truly great storyteller. Feig is a film producer and executive, currently acting as president of the Lionsgate motion picture group, and has a hugely impressive list of credits to his name, including: The Hunger Games: Catching […]
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Oxford University’s Polo Club has recently celebrated success in the Winter Challenge Tournament at the Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club with its newest recruits lifting their first trophy. The tournament saw the team compete under the floodlights in a 22-chukka extravaganza against the University of London, University of Kent and Royal Holloway University.
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✮✮ “Tonight on Radio 4, the plot thickens in…The Allotment Mysteries.” Erudite wordplay and clever phrasing characterises Jackson and Grumitt’s brand new sketch show at the Burton Taylor. Their selection of sketches ranges from the surreal to the observational, with sinister BBC2 adverts, meetings of MI6 in a Starbucks and a haughty Michelin star waiter […]
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✮✮✮✮ Last week, Tim Stanley proudly flaunted his ignorance in The Telegraph over what exactly gender is, snorting: “Apparently a “cis” is someone who identifies with the same gender that they were born with. So that’s a thing now”. Yes, Tim, it is a thing now – and, as this difficult but well-executed production of […]
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Cuppers is notorious for variety, and Saturday’s highlights certainly deliver, with everything from Irish nuns preaching sexual purity (and that was a comedy), to masked figures, and a re-telling of Quasimodo, from the point of view of his wife. The day began with laughter. Regents Park’s entry depicted a Catholic school run by nuns and […]
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✮✮✮ – St Anne’s – As We Forgive Those ✮✮ – Queen’s – Sappho in Palestine ✮✮✮✮ -Brasenose – Macbevved ✮✮✮✮ – St Anne’s – Victoria Station Friday afternoon at Cuppers presented a mix of tones and styles; first on was Andrew Smith’s As We Forgive Those by St. Anne’s. The play depicts Sophie, her […]
Continue Reading✮✮✮✮ – Queen’s – Dirty Linen ✮✮✮✮✮ – Christ Church – Q&A at 6 ✮✮✮ – Catz – Don’t Say Macbeth ✮✮ – St Hilda’s – The Last Leaf ✮✮✮ – Worcester – Quasimodo It’s only 7pm, and the steward in the BT is asking to see my underwear. It’s day three of Cuppers, […]
Continue ReadingWhy would professionals outside the theatre need acting classes? A university degree is meant to prepare you for the workplace, but whilst we students learn to express ourselves well on paper, we often don’t learn to discuss things orally. At Oxford we’re lucky to have a tutorial system that does help with this, but there […]
Continue Reading✮✮✮ ‘Great Britain’ is currently playing at the National Theatre in London, and has just announced a West End run to follow. A new piece written by Richard Bean (author of ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’), the play is not strictly factual but definitely draws on recent events. It depicts a web of corruption linking the […]
Continue ReadingThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time created a stir when it premiered in August 2012. A well-written, creatively presented show, and one that should be on most people’s list of must-see productions. It was not in the theatre that I first saw the show, however, but in the cinema. The National Theatre […]
Continue Reading✮✮✮✮✮ First, to get the major disappointments out of the way – there is no hot tub in this show. Nor is there any mention of time travel. This, admittedly, is a bit of letdown. Not even a smidgeon of a Tardis or Back to the Future makes it into the script. But there are […]
Continue ReadingThe trouble with tackling a Shakespeare play is that every audience member is going to come to see your production with a very specific idea of how they think it should be done – the ‘proper’ way. These plays have been interpreted and reinterpreted so many times that thinking of something that hasn’t been done […]
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