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✮✮✮✮✮ Arcadia by Tom Stoppard: ring any bells? Yeah, I imagined so. And not only because it’s one of the greatest plays of the 21st century, but also because it was performed three times within Oxford alone since January of this year. So, you’ll probably be dismissing the headline as yet another Oxford student company interpretation […]
Continue ReadingFrom a purely aesthetic point of view, the President’s Garden in Magdalen College provided a marvellous backdrop to this skilful and enjoyable production of Arcadia, yet, with an irony that Stoppard himself may have enjoyed, such sumptuous surroundings were the only drawback for the Magdalen Players’ latest offering. The choice of Arcadia for this year’s Magdalen Garden play was […]
Continue ReadingArcadia is set in the house of Sidley Park, and across two time frames; the action alternates between 19th century to the present day and back again with at the drop of a hat. It is a great credit to the staging of this production, from St. Hilda’s Drama Society, that the lines between the […]
Continue ReadingTheatre and theoretical physics are not usually considered the most natural of companions. The canon consists of Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen, Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s rather macabre production The Physicists, and… actually, that’s about it. Enter Tom Stoppard. Arcadia, set in both 1809 and 1993, is superficially a comic drama. There’s dancing, hunting, adultery, at least one elopement, […]
Continue Reading“Unforgettable! What was it?… Oh I remember…” A critic reviewing critics, in a play about plays – it doesn’t get much more pretentious than that. The set-up doesn’t bode well but, the surreal nature of The Real Inspector Hound transcends cliché and dashes expectations in this cleverly written, well-executed send-up of critics and Christie. For once, “Has […]
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