Review: “Orestes”//Oxford Greek Play @ the Oxford Playhouse
"The intense and nuanced performances, the queasy mix of fear and fury palpable with a small glimmer of hope, made Oxford’s Orestes a very capturing play."
Marietta Kosma reviews The Oxford Greek Play's production of Euripides' tragedy "Orestes".
Review: Romeo and Juliet at the National Theatre
"Why stage Romeo and Juliet a year into a global pandemic? Godwin’s primary response to the pandemic appears to be the focus on touch in the production: it reminds us of the power of human contact, and the depth of feeling that can only be experienced in person."
Katie Kirkpatrick reviews the new National Theatre production of Shakespeare's classic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet.
Friday Favourite: Revolutionary Road
If I were to tell you that this novel is great because it’s ‘mesmerising’ and ‘powerful’ and ‘you simply can’t put it down’, you...
Review: Shadows of Troy
Translating and adapting two Greek plays and then squeezing them into one production was an ambitious undertaking, but Shadows of Troy has pulled it off.
The...
The Difference Between a Burnt Roof and 250 Dead
Why tragedies outside the West don't seem to matter.
The Crisis of Creon
'Peripeteia', reversal of fortune, for Sophocles' Creon in 'Antigone' is a wincingly fatal consequence of his tragic decision.
‘She is the one controlling the play’- Rufus Norris’ Macbeth
Norris’ production is a moving theatrical piece that allows Lady Macbeth to be the puppeteer she has so desperately always wanted to be.
RSC Macbeth Review: ‘technical wizardry fails to bring any tension or magic’
Dodgy directoral decisions and acting leaves one foreseeing a dark future for this unconvincing RSC production
RSC Hamlet Review – ‘This is simultaneous creativity and destruction. To be or not to be.’
John Livesey reflects upon the Basquiat elements of this perceptive RSC production
Getting to grips with the adult cartoon craze
Christopher Goring is stunned by the maturity of modern cartoons
Vice-Chancellor urged to renew commitment to city cyclists
The move comes after Claudia Comberti, a DPhil student at the Environmental Change Institute, was run over and killed
Oxford student dies in tragic bus accident
The DPhil candidate fell from her bike on Botley Road and was run over by a bus