Emily Holman
✮✮✮✮ I laughed and laughed and as I cycled home I was still laughing. Kvetch, on at the Burton Taylor...
Joined22nd April 2013
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✮✮✮✮ The Keble O’Reilly filled up pretty well for the opening night of Aladdin, and it soon became clear why....
Sam Lane
✮✮✮ In 1629, no less a critic than Ben Jonson decried Pericles as “stale”. Despite the valiant attempts of cast...
Robert Hayes
✮✮✮ St John the Evangelist’s feels like a strangely appropriate setting to host a piece of musical theatre in which...
James Waddell
“It’s not exactly festive fare, no”. Carla Kingham, director of Kellogg College’s upcoming production of Can’t Stand Up For Falling...
Madeleine Chalmers
✮✮✮ Engimatic, Beckettian, intriguing – Shells received excellent previews. Certainly, the set is impeccable: a beachcomber’s paradise, strewn with sand,...
Matthew Davies
‘There’s a humanity in Endgame,’ director Will Felton tells me, ‘which is often overlooked.’ This is a bold claim to...
Tucker Cholvin
✮✮✮ There’s a certain breed of musical that manages to strike a chord deeper than just a nice tune and...
Jack Myers
✮✮ So here’s purgatory: four members of the recently deceased find themselves engulfed in sheets billowing from all sides. The...
Alice Troy-Donovan
✮✮✮✮✮ The Buttless Chaps are back: four performers, 18 sketches, and a touch of oddly hilarious German musical to finish....
James Watt
Richard II is shadowed by a crushing and overwhelming feeling of loss. Ethereal sopranos sing a chilling lament, the widowed...
Lisa Bernhardt
Unless you’re a student of (French) literature and history, the poet, duellist and nobleman Cyrano de Bergerac will be amongst...
Elliot Chester
✮✮✮✮ “Anal vetting.” It is fitting that the above phrase, funny in almost any context, is pronounced within 30 seconds...
Madeleine Perham
✮✮✮✮ The stage for Tarell Alvin McCraney’s production of Antony and Cleopatra looks like a typical antiquated space: creamy-toned Corinthian...
Rebecca Henderson
✮✮✮✮ With the prizes and prestige of the original show combined with gritty themes of human existence and value, it...
Jack Myers
✮✮✮✮ “Shepherd’s pie peppered with actual shepherd on top.” Probably the best line in any musical ever. It actually sums...
The cast of Judgement at Nuremberg were absolutely clear on one thing. This was not to be a play about Nazis. That...
It’s all very well extolling the virtues of sitting in a theatre – but what happens when we want to...
Opera. Etymological roots in ‘work’. Something all Oxonians – nay, all students – can at least feign passing familiarity with....
