Entertainment·9th January 2019A tale told by plastic bags: National Theatre’s Macbeth tour at the New Theatre Alice Williams It’s not easy to produce a convincing Macbeth; what is simply breath-taking on the printed page may well come across... Read More
Entertainment·12th October 2016Review: The Deep Blue Sea Megan Husain The National Theatre’s production of Terrence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea is an emotionally overwhelming and thought-provoking play. Set in... Read More
Entertainment·8th September 2014Review: Medea Rose Sykes ✮✮✮✮✮ When confronted with a production of this calibre – so absorbingly relevant, so in tune with our society’s... Read More
Entertainment·22nd May 2014The view from the cheap seats OxStu Stage Hilary Mantel adaptation Wolf Hall/Bring Up the Bodies has been a smash-hit with the critics, garnering four and five stars... Read More
Entertainment·24th October 2013DEBATE: This house would support state funding of drama and the arts Tommo Fowler and Eleanor Sharman PROPOSITION: Tommo Fowler makes a play to get state sponsoring for the stage Theatre can be roughly split into two... Read More
Entertainment·3rd August 2013What’s done cannot be undone: Macbeth fails to deliver Carolina Grierson Since 2009, National Theatre Live has been transmitting live performances to cinemas around the world, bringing the theatrical into the... Read More
Entertainment·6th October 2011If you can’t stand the heat… A top performance sheds light on the manic world behind a restaurant kitchen's closed doors. Read More
Entertainment·12th December 2017‘The biggest, most challenging and most rewarding acting job I’ve had yet’: Kiran Landa on The National Theatre’s War Horse Could you tell us a bit about yourself? I’m an actress from Nottingham, which is also where I trained as... Read More
Entertainment·7th August 2014Review: a sadly not-so-Great Britain Amelia Brown ✮✮✮ ‘Great Britain’ is currently playing at the National Theatre in London, and has just announced a West End run... Read More
Entertainment·24th April 2014Joyce adaptation stuns at the National Theatre James Waddell ✮✮✮✮ Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce stakes a serious claim to being the most unreadable novel of all time.... Read More
Entertainment·9th September 2013Edward II: hot stuff at the Olivier Carolina Grierson Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II is a play that ends where it begins, with the death of one king and the... Read More
Entertainment·20th September 2012Ex-St Catz Thesps Celebrate the College’s 50th Anniversary Frankie Goodway 2012 marks fifty years since St Catherine’s became a college and this momentous occasion was celebrated in true Oxonian style:... Read More