Entertainment·4th March 2014Review: Replay Daniel Bottiglieri ✮✮✮ In the first 10 minutes, I became terribly worried that I would be unable to write a review. I...Read More
Entertainment·4th March 2014Big Brass, big laughs Saskia Mair ✮✮✮✮ The cast of Big Brass initially makes a big joke about being amateur. The set of their Pilch studio...Read More
Entertainment·4th March 2014‘A Night to Remember’ isn’t a lie Madeleine Perham ✮✮✮✮ Chutney and Chips came to reinvent the canon, to shake up Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with a cocktail...Read More
Entertainment·2nd March 2014Almost a great Gatsby Fay Watson ✮✮✮ Set in the height of the roaring twenties, The Great Gatsby has always been a favourite for adaptations in...Read More
Entertainment·2nd March 2014Not an absurdly good night Harriet Fry ✮✮✮ ‘A Night of the Absurd’ may not be the most comforting way to spend an evening but the experience...Read More
Entertainment·27th February 20146th week: Winging It F.D. Levin GODS Recently interviewed in this section, Michael Grandage’s West End season has just picked up 4 WhatsOnStage awards, including ‘Best Director’...Read More
Entertainment·25th February 2014Glitz at the Ritz: Semi-Monde has the audience roaring with laughter Charanpreet Khaira ✮✮✮✮ Noel Coward’s Semi-Monde running at the Oxford Playhouse this week, is a delightful romp through the opulence and extravagance...Read More
Entertainment·25th February 2014Review: Chess at St John’s James Waddell ✮✮✮ It’s the late 1980s, Cold War tensions are running high, and chess grandmasters “The American” in all-white and “The...Read More
Entertainment·24th February 2014Family Values gets a glowing Revue Emily Holman The Hilary Revue Burton Taylor Studio 4th week ✮✮✮✮✮ Hahahahahahaha. I wish that could be my review. This is funny....Read More
Entertainment·22nd February 2014Sweeney Todd makes the cut Fred Shan ✮✮✮✮ 1/2 Stephen Sondheim’s musical Sweeney Todd tells the tale of a deranged barber on his quest for revenge; together...Read More
Entertainment·20th February 2014Will LMH’s Gatsby deserve to be called Great? Tucker Cholvin There’s no denying that The Great Gatsby is enjoying more popularity than it ever has since its publication. The Baz...Read More
Entertainment·20th February 2014The Impish humour stays forever young Rebecca Henderson The Imps 10th Anniversary The New Theatre 13 February ✮✮✮✮✮ I talked to one of the newest IMPs, Francessca Evans, a...Read More
Entertainment·20th February 2014New Oxford comedy troupe is bold as Big Brass The Big Brass When The Oxford Student first asked me to interview the writers and performers behind Big Brass, a new sketch comedy...Read More
Entertainment·16th February 2014Sir Gawain pulls our strings Srishti Nirula ✮✮✮✮ Cardboard Menagerie present Simon Corble’s much revised adaptation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight at the Keble O’Reilly...Read More
Entertainment·6th February 2014Chess makes a play for our hearts Morgan Harries St John’s are nice guys. What is so odd about this production of Chess is the contrast between the Cold-War-chess-match-turned-love-triangle...Read More
Entertainment·6th February 2014Review: 12 Angry Women at the Oxford Union Costanza Bertoni C**t. I feel my toes curl at the sheer aggressiveness of those four letters. It is one of those insults...Read More
Entertainment·6th February 2014The Oxford Imps have their cake and you eat it Elliot Chester Smiles pinned on their faces and chocolate cupcakes raised aloft, the circle of twentysomethings in matching shirts posed for photo...Read More
Entertainment·31st January 2014Winging It: 2nd week F.D. Levin Gods This column (again) whose deep critical insights have attracted coverage on a national scale. This week’s Guardian online theatre...Read More
Entertainment·31st January 2014Three cheers for comedy: Huzzah Comedy Night at the Jericho Tavern Frazier Bailey Huz·zah (hə-zä′) interj: Used to express used to approval or delight Despite this being its fifth installment in Oxford, I knew...Read More