Review: Sübverse
I won’t lie, when I first saw the running time for Sübverse I was skeptical. A sketch that can maintain audience interest for over 90 minutes is an impressive feat even for the most seasoned of...
View ArticleIt was Mormon than enough: Book of Mormon at Palace Theatre, Manchester
There is nothing I want more in the world right now than one of the pyjama suits worn in ‘Spooky Mormon Hell Dream’. The red, Grinch-like, pointy-toed costumes look cosy as well as fashionable. This...
View ArticleFunny Females: Where are the women in comedy?
I’m sure we all remember the pithy response that Georgia, in Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging, is given as a reason for why she shouldn’t have dressed up as an olive to a fancy-dress party. “Boys...
View ArticleReview: Gatsby at Trinity – The Mystery American and the Dreaming Spires
Gatsby at Trinity follows F. Scott Fitzgerald’s mystery man Jay Gatsby before he was a mystery. We watch as he enrols as a student at Trinity College, Oxford, in 1919, after serving in the Great War....
View Article‘It smashes through the fourth wall and begs you to help’: Hustlers at the BT
The dishevelled set promises exactly what the voyeur is here to see: drugs; sex; cigarettes; fishnets and feistiness. There will be no taboo left unshaken here. The steady rhythm seeps onto the stage...
View ArticlePreview: The hilairious Oxford Revue and Friends at The Oxford Playhouse
It was a Saturday morning when I found myself sat waiting to preview The Oxford Revue’s Playhouse show playing on Monday 17th June. As I sat waiting for a fellow reviewer, I was told I would be privy...
View ArticleIntroducing ‘Hustlers’, at the BT this week
Hoof and Horn Productions are excited to announce that they are putting on the visceral and compelling play Hustlers from the 11th-15th of June (7th Week) at the BT Studio before their run at this...
View ArticleA strong if patchy staging – A View from the Bridge at the Pilch
No doubt many of you, like myself, may be familiar with this play’s story already, having studied it endlessly for your GSCEs, A-Levels, or university course. Whether this was on the syllabuses of...
View ArticleReview: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at the Apollo Theatre London
The musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is written by Tom MacRae, based on the real-life story of Jamie Campbell; a 16-year old lad from a Sheffield council estate who wants to follow his dream of...
View ArticleShakespeare but not as I like it – critiquing the contemporary
I went to see ‘As You Like It’ at Stratford-upon-Avon a couple of weeks ago, which is running at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until the end of August. Unfortunately the play is far from Shakespeare as...
View ArticleReview: Syncopated Stand Up at The Mad Hatter
When asked to review this evening of jazz from the Red Brick Jazz Sextet, and comedy from The Oxford Revue, I had to make a rather odd confession to the editors. “But I’m performing,” I explained...
View ArticlePreview: The Reunion at the BT impresses with its chaotic dark humour
Sizzling with chaotic, hilarious energy, ‘The Reunion’ promises to be an electric piece of theatre. Written, directed and masterminded by Tommy Hurst and Bernard Visser, the premise surrounds two...
View Article‘A Little Night Music’ at The Queen’s College
Adaptations of this musical have famously been met with varying degrees of success, but this modern version was charming. Full of sex, social satire and entangled relationships, just as it should be,...
View ArticleQ&A at the BT – hilarious pastiche which doesn’t quite stick the landing
Question and answer sessions with the cast of a play following its performance have become a common event in theatre these days. As someone who takes an avid interest in the behind the scenes aspect of...
View ArticleLove/Sick: an hilarious, original, intelligent performance
The BT has always intrigued me from a set design point of view. It’s a small, rabbit-hole like space lined with black curtains that can be pulled into a variety of positions to create a desired stage...
View ArticleReview: Made in Dagenham at the Oxford Playhouse
This should have been an excellent production. The sets were wonderful, the costumes spectacular and the cast gave it their all. But we just couldn’t hear them for most of the performance. In the first...
View ArticleIn Conversation with Comedian and Oxford Grad Ivo Graham
‘Every bit of this is of enormous nostalgia for me’ Ivo Graham says. ‘At Oxford I read the OxStu, and I applied with my friend and roommate Matt to be music editors…we didn’t get it and we carried that...
View ArticleRedacted Arachnid: the story of a doomed superhero adaptation
When a couple of years ago I heard that there had once been a musical focusing on the world’s most famous web-slinging superhero, I remember thinking it was a weird choice for a show subject, but then...
View Article“Being a woman is a tight-rope walk”: Chloe Jacobs on her new play ‘Bandages’
How long have you been working on writing this play and how did it come about in the initial stages? I actually started writing Bandages in about 2016, when I was 17. My drama teacher had signed us up...
View ArticleCAKE Night at The North Wall Arts Centre: unsettling and entertaining
CAKE Night, a brand new scratch night organised by Oxford students Anushka Chakravarti and Bea Udale-Smith, was an event that exuded cheerfulness and energy. Cocooned in Summertown’s North Wall Arts...
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