Entertainment·4th December 2013Hilarious 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... Read More
Entertainment·27th November 2013Aladdin sane as expected ✮✮✮✮ The Keble O’Reilly filled up pretty well for the opening night of Aladdin, and it soon became clear why.... Read More
Entertainment·27th November 2013Pericles 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... Read More
Entertainment·22nd November 2013An 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... Read More
Entertainment·22nd November 2013Can’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... Read More
Entertainment·21st November 2013Shells 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,... Read More
Entertainment·21st November 2013Endgame 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... Read More
Entertainment·21st November 2013West 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... Read More
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... Read More
Entertainment·20th November 2013More 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.... Read More
Entertainment·19th November 2013Richard 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... Read More
Entertainment·19th November 2013Hilda’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... Read More
Entertainment·14th November 2013The 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... Read More
Entertainment·13th November 2013RSC’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... Read More
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... Read More
Entertainment·12th November 2013Barbarous 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... Read More
Entertainment·8th November 2013Judgement 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... Read More
Entertainment·7th November 2013Adriano 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... Read More
Entertainment·7th November 2013Students, opera, and the myth of incompatibility Opera. Etymological roots in ‘work’. Something all Oxonians – nay, all students – can at least feign passing familiarity with.... Read More