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·11th June 2022

Review: Tick, Tick…Boom!

Abigail Stevens
Spoilers ahead! It is unlikely that anyone would have ever heard of Tick, Tick…Boom! if it weren’t for the later...
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Entertainment
·15th February 2022

“They All Deserve To Die”: Sweeney Todd Review

Abigail Stevens
Image Description: red and white promotional picture of Sweeney Todd holding his trusty razor. CW – Graphic violence, rape, cannibalism...
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Entertainment
·11th November 2018

Review: The Band thrills in transporting us back to the ’90s

Emma Rumford
Image Credit: Matt Crockett. Description: the central cast of The Band. Jukebox musicals, the idea of incorporating the music of...
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Entertainment
·18th May 2018

Lady Gaga meets Brecht at the Old Fire Station

Robyn Allen
A Berlin Kabaret advertises itself as ‘Lady Gaga meets Brecht’ and a ‘Response to the Refugee Crisis’. It is underselling...
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Entertainment
·24th January 2018

Review: Witch at the Jacqueline du Pré

Miriam Tomusk
The silence beneath the noise is the guiding undercurrent of Witch, an original production created by the students of the...
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Entertainment
·23rd May 2017

Review: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Natalie Tsay
At first glance, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend looks like just another standard rom-com. A successful, Harvard-and-Yale-educated woman named Rebecca runs into Josh...
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Entertainment
·4th May 2017

An Array of Delights in this Little Shop of Horrors

Little Shop of Horrors is a weird, wacky and wonderful musical. A cult classic I had failed to encounter before...
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Entertainment
·24th February 2017

Made in Dagenham: Affecting, Thoughtful and Triumphant

Betty Yang
On the 28th of June 1968, a group of female machinists marched on Whitehall, picketing for change, campaigning for gender...
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Entertainment
·16th February 2017

Anna Karenina is Given a New Lease of Life in the O’Reilly

Yolanda Shamash
There have been a hell of a lot of plays about Russia this term. We had Collaborators, all about Stalin,...
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Entertainment
·2nd February 2017

Prostitutes and Petunias on London Road: A Review

Prostitution, petunias, serial killers and community. These issues might seem to be an unconventional combination and yet they all come...
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Culture
·13th May 2022

Review: Little Shop of Horrors

Joe Wald
The Eglesfield Music Society’s rendition of Ashman and Menken’s Little Shop of Horrors is wall-to-wall delights. A heartwarming thrill ride...
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Culture
·10th May 2019

Madagascar the Movie: We do not like to move it move it

Miranda K Gleaves
A half-empty theatre rarely bodes well. The curtain rose as my heart sank, and this underwhelming, under-rehearsed, and unambitious production...
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Entertainment
·21st May 2018

Hamilton: The musical everyone is talking about

Emma Rumford
Hamilton, a musical so loved it kept its namesake on the 10 dollar bill, is as much a success of...
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Entertainment
·17th May 2018

Review: Thoroughly Modern Millie

Lou Lou Curry
Thoroughly Modern Millie is as thoroughly delightful as ever. Now on tour, and having just graced Oxford’s New Theatre with...
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Entertainment
·2nd June 2017

Merlot and Royal: A Great Cast and Catchy Tunes Slightly Hampered by New Writing

Katie Stanton
Merlot & Royal, an original musical by Imogen Mechie, opened at the Tingewick Hall with great potential, but it failed to...
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Entertainment
·22nd May 2017

Merlot and Royal: Feelings of Nostalgia Combined with Pure Excitement

Walking away from St Catherine’s on Saturday morning I couldn’t stop myself humming ‘Merlot and Royal’; it was at this...
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Entertainment
·1st May 2017

‘Little Shop of Horrors’: A Preview

Charles Pidgeon
As I watched the cast of Little Shop of Horrors perform at a tech rehearsal, I was nostalgic for a...
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Entertainment
·19th February 2017

Made in Dagenham Preview: Up-beat Numbers, Infectious Laughs, and Political Activism

Megan Husain
On Saturday I went along to the Simpkins Lee Theatre to see a preview of Made in Dagenham which is...
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Entertainment
·10th February 2017

Anna Karenina is fearless, spirited and surprising: A Preview

Betty Yang
Staging Anna Karenina is a tricky business. For a start, you have to chisel down one thousand pages and repackage...
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