Hyunjip Kim
The science of previewing is no more a science than augury. Especially if, like Gabe Day, the play has profited...
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Haiya Sarwar
In an out-of-context quote from her bestselling series, Dannika Dark’s character Knox steamily goes: “I think we’re both bullshitting here,...
Mona Damian
Light and fun. This year’s Merton garden play brings the ludicrous frivolity of the 19th century nobility to life in...
Adam Alcock
The Merchant of Venice is perhaps the most unsuitable play for an outdoor Shakespeare festival. How does one capture the...
Anna Zanetti
Much like the title of the performance itself, the atmosphere at Keble O’Reilly Theatre on Thursday night seems at first...
Emma Papworth
The stage is set for what looks to be an unnerving tale. A single lamp suspended above a dark and...
Frankie Goodway
Little Shop of Horrors is a cult horror-comedy musical, somewhat in the vein of Rocky Horror, about a new breed...
James Roscoe
Toby Mather’s act is a performance that occupies a territory somewhere between theatre and comedy; it is a thoroughly enjoyable...
Frankie Goodway
Trinity Lawn’s Alice in Wonderland is not to be confused with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which is quite a different...
Alexander Bery
Natalie York’s production of one of Sophocles’ tragically underperformed plays, Philoctetes, fails to capture most of what makes the original...
Rebecca Hazel Roughan
Christopher Marlowe’s most famous play, Doctor Faustus, sees the eponymous antihero sell his soul in a quest for power and knowledge....
Anja A. Drautzburg
We are intruding. Frank, Claudia and their son Andi are about to move to Canada, so we enter a kingdom...
Charlotte Goodman
A Duchess loves a Knight who is having an affair with the Duke’s niece, the Chatelaine. The Knight spurns the...
Matthew Davies
Few topics heighten emotions and evoke hysteria as much as the mention of a missing child. Think of Madeleine McCann...
Oliver Forrest
“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” So goes the formula for...
Jian Hoh
Demons, devils, and black magic; Marlowe’s Faustus is no light-hearted comedy. It’s ambitious stuff for students to undertake, and the...
Jian Hoh
The garden show is an Oxford institution; like punting or drinking at midday, it is part of that host of...
Alexander Bery
Chekhov’s play The Seagull can easily be staged as a Puccini-esque 19th Century melodrama moving between affected solo arias and...
Eleanor Sharman
The programme features a pixellated, slightly out-of-focus jester – but there’s nothing fuzzy about this sketch show. On the contrary,...
