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·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·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·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
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·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·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·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·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·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·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