Emily Holman
‘I’m like a walking corpse’ Ibsen isn’t known for his cheery plays. Yet ‘Ghosts’, on at the BT studio until...
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Olivia Lalude-Haworth
Abi Morgan’s Splendour is a chilling tale of violence and oppression in a country on the brink of revolution. Set...
Anna Mowbray
Antigone is the latest in a series of Greek tragedies put on in the New College Cloisters and directed by...
Jack Chisnall
The two writer-performers, JACK CHISNALL and ALEX FOX, walk into the room. INTERVIEWER If you’d just like to introduce yourselves...
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Will Shaw
People who say Oxford is no laughing matter are very much not the target audience of The Oxford Revue and...
Miranda Mackay
James Watts’ intense production promises to blow the dust off this 19th century classic. Using Eyre’s recent translation of the...
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James Sewry
This year’s Trinity Lawns Play marked the return of Megan Slattery to the director’s chair, who on this occasion was...
Frey Kwa Hawking
I’m maliciously glad that the person who was going to review Queueue yesterday at the café of the Modern Art...
James Riding
Splendour is a play which delights in being enigmatic. Written by Abi Morgan, screenwriter of Suffragette and The Iron Lady,...
Lara Kotecha
Iconic, powerful and heartbreaking are words I would use to describe Tennessee Williams’ 1947 play, A Streetcar Named Desire. The...
Frey Kwa hawking
See this production: Tennessee Williams’ tight script still evokes laughs and trembles at the Keble O’Reilly in the hands of...
Lara Kotecha
In the small, modern North Wall Arts Centre stands a large, buzzing swarm of thesps and arty types. Each sporting...
Annie Hayter
Biblioclasm. Libricide. Book-burning. These are all words that roll off the tongue trippingly. But this action, this destruction of books,...
Anna Moybray
Three characters, Inéz, Garcin, and Estelle, are in hell. And where is hell, you may ask? Hell turns out to...
Lara Kotecha
A Streetcar Named Desire written by Tennessee Williams is an iconic piece of 20th Century American theatre. Streetcar tells the...
William Shaw
Most Playhouse productions are no laughing matter. Sitting comfortably at the top of the student theatre hierarchy, the Playhouse is...
William Shaw
The style of Queueue: A Coffee Shop Musical is best described as a kind of gentrified cyberpunk. A free-form, genre-mixing...
Imogen Stead
‘L’enfer, c’est les Autres’. Sartre’s heavily quoted – and often misunderstood – line ‘Hell is other people’ is at the...
Annie Hayter
Polly’s Teale’s poignant drama Mine is very much a play for today: not least because of its exploration of the...
