Entertainment·17th June 2016Ghosts – A review Emily Holman ‘I’m like a walking corpse’ Ibsen isn’t known for his cheery plays. Yet ‘Ghosts’, on at the BT studio until... Read More
Entertainment·14th June 2016Splendour – A review Olivia Lalude-Haworth Abi Morgan’s Splendour is a chilling tale of violence and oppression in a country on the brink of revolution. Set... Read More
Entertainment·12th June 2016Antigone – A review Anna Mowbray Antigone is the latest in a series of Greek tragedies put on in the New College Cloisters and directed by... Read More
Entertainment·12th June 2016Little Boys – A sneak preview Jack Chisnall The two writer-performers, JACK CHISNALL and ALEX FOX, walk into the room. INTERVIEWER If you’d just like to introduce yourselves... Read More
News·12th June 2016Oxford Revue – A review Will Shaw People who say Oxford is no laughing matter are very much not the target audience of The Oxford Revue and... Read More
Entertainment·12th June 2016Ghosts- A preview Miranda Mackay James Watts’ intense production promises to blow the dust off this 19th century classic. Using Eyre’s recent translation of the... Read More
News·12th June 2016Much ado about nothing – A Review James Sewry This year’s Trinity Lawns Play marked the return of Megan Slattery to the director’s chair, who on this occasion was... Read More
Entertainment·12th June 2016Queueue – A review Frey Kwa Hawking I’m maliciously glad that the person who was going to review Queueue yesterday at the café of the Modern Art... Read More
Entertainment·6th June 2016Splendour – A preview James Riding Splendour is a play which delights in being enigmatic. Written by Abi Morgan, screenwriter of Suffragette and The Iron Lady,... Read More
Entertainment·6th June 2016A streetcar named Desire – Another review Lara Kotecha Iconic, powerful and heartbreaking are words I would use to describe Tennessee Williams’ 1947 play, A Streetcar Named Desire. The... Read More
Entertainment·4th June 2016A streetcar named Desire – A review Frey Kwa hawking See this production: Tennessee Williams’ tight script still evokes laughs and trembles at the Keble O’Reilly in the hands of... Read More
Entertainment·4th June 2016Colin and Katya – A review Lara Kotecha In the small, modern North Wall Arts Centre stands a large, buzzing swarm of thesps and arty types. Each sporting... Read More
Entertainment·4th June 2016Farenheit 451- A review Annie Hayter Biblioclasm. Libricide. Book-burning. These are all words that roll off the tongue trippingly. But this action, this destruction of books,... Read More
Entertainment·1st June 2016No Exit – A review Anna Moybray Three characters, Inéz, Garcin, and Estelle, are in hell. And where is hell, you may ask? Hell turns out to... Read More
Entertainment·1st June 2016A streetcar named Desire – A preview Lara Kotecha A Streetcar Named Desire written by Tennessee Williams is an iconic piece of 20th Century American theatre. Streetcar tells the... Read More
Entertainment·1st June 2016The Oxford Revue and Friends – A preview William Shaw Most Playhouse productions are no laughing matter. Sitting comfortably at the top of the student theatre hierarchy, the Playhouse is... Read More
Entertainment·30th May 2016Queueue – A preview William Shaw The style of Queueue: A Coffee Shop Musical is best described as a kind of gentrified cyberpunk. A free-form, genre-mixing... Read More
Entertainment·30th May 2016No Exit – A preview Imogen Stead ‘L’enfer, c’est les Autres’. Sartre’s heavily quoted – and often misunderstood – line ‘Hell is other people’ is at the... Read More
Entertainment·28th May 2016Mine – A review Annie Hayter Polly’s Teale’s poignant drama Mine is very much a play for today: not least because of its exploration of the... Read More