Frankie Parham, Author at Cherwell

Review: Mort

Thank heavens Mort is showing in 8th Week of Hilary: the term of sickness, stress and freak exams for an unlucky few. Well –...

Quills

After the Moser’s lavish costume drama Dangerous Liaisons in third week, the powdered wigs and buckled shoes return for this gripping production of Quills at the OFS

Alice is no child’s play

Frankie Parham discovers oysters and boiler suits in Through the Looking Glass4/5With the pantomime season over, audiences may find it hard to stomach more...

Drama Review: Humphrey’s Unpleasantness

by Frankie Parham How can blood on a wheelchair be funny? You only have to get down to the BT for this all...

Drama Review: The One That Got Away

by Frankie Parham It should be harder to go wrong if you start with something simple. Director Steve Loman has attempted to build The One...

Drama Review: Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath

It’s hard to imagine a static, single-act monologue being so gripping, but Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath is nothing short of a theatrical...

Drama Review: Roussos!

by Frankie Parham For something with an exclamation mark in its title, you’d expect Roussos! to be loud, bizarre and confrontational. For all the...

Review: Endgame – ‘Nothing is funnier than unhappiness’

A literary map of Oxford

Should we judge a book by its cover?

Blood is compulsory: The films of Martin McDonagh

Frankie Parham