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·4th December 2013

Hilarious sketch – go and see Kvetch

Emily Holman
 ✮✮✮✮ I laughed and laughed and as I cycled home I was still laughing. Kvetch, on at the Burton Taylor...
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Entertainment
·27th November 2013

Aladdin sane as expected

✮✮✮✮ The Keble O’Reilly filled up pretty well for the opening night of Aladdin, and it soon became clear why....
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·27th November 2013

Pericles gets there in general

Sam Lane
✮✮✮ In 1629, no less a critic than Ben Jonson decried Pericles as “stale”. Despite the valiant attempts of cast...
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Entertainment
·22nd November 2013

An heroic attempt to Handel Hercules

Robert Hayes
✮✮✮ St John the Evangelist’s feels like a strangely appropriate setting to host a piece of musical theatre in which...
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Entertainment
·22nd November 2013

Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down poised to captivate

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...
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Entertainment
·21st November 2013

Shells bobs along, but never makes a splash

Madeleine Chalmers
✮✮✮ Engimatic, Beckettian, intriguing – Shells received excellent previews. Certainly, the set is impeccable: a beachcomber’s paradise, strewn with sand,...
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Entertainment
·21st November 2013

Endgame off to a promising start

Matthew Davies
‘There’s a humanity in Endgame,’ director Will Felton tells me, ‘which is often overlooked.’ This is a bold claim to...
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·21st November 2013

West Side Story still shining strong

Tucker Cholvin
✮✮✮ There’s a certain breed of musical that manages to strike a chord deeper than just a nice tune and...
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Entertainment
·20th November 2013

“100” far from divine

Jack Myers
✮✮ So here’s purgatory: four members of the recently deceased find themselves engulfed in sheets billowing from all sides. The...
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Entertainment
·20th November 2013

More Funny actually is

Alice Troy-Donovan
✮✮✮✮✮ The Buttless Chaps are back: four performers, 18 sketches, and a touch of oddly hilarious German musical to finish....
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Entertainment
·19th November 2013

Richard II recommends RSC’s repertoire

James Watt
Richard II is shadowed by a crushing and overwhelming feeling of loss. Ethereal sopranos sing a chilling lament, the widowed...
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·19th November 2013

Hilda’s to hit the mark with Cyrano

Lisa Bernhardt
Unless you’re a student of (French) literature and history, the poet, duellist and nobleman Cyrano de Bergerac will be amongst...
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Entertainment
·14th November 2013

The Hypochondriac deserves the hype

Elliot Chester
✮✮✮✮ “Anal vetting.” It is fitting that the above phrase, funny in almost any context, is pronounced within 30 seconds...
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Entertainment
·13th November 2013

RSC’s Antony and Cleopatra gets a Caribbean twist

Madeleine Perham
✮✮✮✮ The stage for Tarell Alvin McCraney’s production of Antony and Cleopatra looks like a typical antiquated space: creamy-toned Corinthian...
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Entertainment
·13th November 2013

‘100’% must-see

Rebecca Henderson
✮✮✮✮ With the prizes and prestige of the original show combined with gritty themes of human existence and value, it...
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·12th November 2013

Barbarous barber brings bloodshed to the Playhouse

Jack Myers
✮✮✮✮ “Shepherd’s pie peppered with actual shepherd on top.” Probably the best line in any musical ever. It actually sums...
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·8th November 2013

Judgement at Nuremberg – alarming and adroit

The cast of Judgement at Nuremberg were absolutely clear on one thing. This was not to be a play about Nazis. That...
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·7th November 2013

Adriano Graziani on making it happen

It’s all very well extolling the virtues of sitting in a theatre – but what happens when we want to...
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·7th November 2013

Students, opera, and the myth of incompatibility

Opera. Etymological roots in ‘work’. Something all Oxonians – nay, all students – can at least feign passing familiarity with....
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