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✮✮✮✮ Ridley’s career may have been destroyed by negative reviews, but James P Mannion and George Varley have no reason to retire to the woodland cabin just yet. Mannion’s play explores the reality – and the fundamental unreality – of the isolation that many of us, at times, crave. The play opens with Ridley […]
Continue Reading✮✮✮✮ Bing Crosby, Santa hats and Christmas jumpers: The Oxford Revue’s Christmas Party kicked off last night in traditional cheesy style, providing an evening of sketches, stand-up, and musical numbers to warm the cockles of all but the very Grinchiest.
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✮✮✮✮ As light coaxes the scene into visibility, a man drags himself across the front of the stage. Behind him is an enormous extension of plastic, part-dangling placenta, part-distorted womb, part-shackling net. One is reminded of Atlas and the earth that it is his destiny to shoulder. Inside the plastic is a body. Soon we […]
Continue ReadingRosie Carpenter ✮✮✮✮ “Had I your tongues and eyes, I’d use them so that heaven’s vault should crack.” This Yaël Farber production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is worthy of comparison with Shakespeare’s King Lear in the sheer weight of its tragedy. The whole theatre draped in greying cloth (is that a wine or […]
Continue Reading✮✮✮✮ Amongst the talk of the recent Edinburgh Fringe festival, it is important not to forget the International Festival: starting a week after the Fringe with a three week run, the festival is known for larger scale shows, in contrast to the backstreet venues that characterise the Fringe. Back to Back Theatre’s production of […]
Continue Reading✮✮✮✮ Jack Shepherd’s imagination of a meeting between William Blake and Thomas Paine will be familiar to anyone who has stood at 3am, wine bottle in hand, slurring passionately in defence of Thomistic rights while your partner in the empty bar stresses, as if it was their highest held belief, whatever meta-philosophical pamphlet they most […]
Continue ReadingRheanna-Marie Hall ✮✮✮✮ This year is the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, and at The Globe a suitably historical theme has been adopted: Shakespeare’s plays of Rome. The theatre proclaims its 2014 season to be a display of ‘mankind’s endless capacity for conflict’, and the stories of the people caught within. Antony and Cleopatra, spanning […]
Continue Reading✮✮✮✮ We were promised sex, and sex we were given. But as we watch a mother hysterically laughing in an attempt to cover the sound of creaking bed springs from her 15-year-old daughter’s room, it is clear that this is not the youthful romp we may have expected, but an excruciating and close-to-the-bone comedy […]
Continue Reading✮✮✮✮ ‘Blue Stockings’ touches the audience without preaching. Directed by Madeleine Perham, it is set in 1897 when Cambridge University was set to vote whether the students of Girton College, a girl’s college in Cambridge, had the right to graduate. It is a slice of life play minus the hysterics historical dramas bring. You find […]
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