Theatre

Review: Closer – ‘Where Marber fails’

Labyrinth Production’s staging of Patrick Marber’s 1997 play, Closer, was an ambitious move for a student-run production company. Ambitious as it was, the cast themselves put on a strong...
Theatre Faye Chang -

Review: JACK – ‘Gas-lit showstoppers, intrigue, and murder’

Jack The Ripper is arguably the most famous killer of the Victorian era. There...
Theatre Rhys Ponsford -

Review: Death of a Salesman – ‘The Inside of His Head’

To review Tiptoe Productions’ staging of Death of a Salesman, I must first contextualise...
Theatre Sanaya Narula -

Oxford’s summer scene: The season of open-air performances

Trinity term at Oxford University is defined by wisteria, wild swimming, and warmth. Students...
Theatre Elizabeth Bourn -
Latest

“More gentle slap than sucker punch”

Katheryn Thompson finds Made in Dagenham lacking in political grit

“A bold and unapologetic production”

Surya Bowyer is frustrated by a powerful production of 'Suspiria' which comes so close to greatness

Anything but a simple fairy-tale

Ebere Nweze is impressed by this unnerving and sharp new adaptation of Wilde’s short story

“Young, classy and capable of mischief”

Jacob Greenhouse is impressed by the freshness of Consortium Novum’s production of The Marriage of Figaro

A word from the stalls

Miriam Nemmaoui chats to an audience member who is left feeling nostalgic by Anna Karenina

“An enormous array of talent on display”

Jonnie Barrow enjoys a bumpy ride through a musical twist on a classic

‘We’re going to do it better than Braveheart’

If your schooling was anything like Tom Fisher's, who is playing Ross in this new production of Macbeth, you studied the Scottish play in...

Preview: ‘Tender Napalm’

Emily Lawford is stifled and mesmerised by this production of Tender Napalm

“Krapp isn’t quite of this world”

Sian Bayley is finds chills and thrills in this production's take on Beckett's exploration of failure

Both disturbing and utterly engaging: Suddenly Last Summer

With the tagline, “Something unspeakable happened last summer”, you might be forgiven for thinking of Aunt Ada Doom’s (Cold Comfort Farm) cry of “I...

A word from the stalls

Miriam Nemmaoui receives mixed feedback from an audience member after Suddenly Last Summer

Two lonely people, one heartrending production

Bessie Yuill promises an intense evening of Beckett made accessible to all

Review: The Homecoming

After the play finished, a few good friends walked towards me. “Wait, so what happened?” My friend Alex’s facial muscles were contorted. “What the...

Drop dead funny

James Lamming is impressed by the originality and comic maturity of the Oxford Imps’ latest production

“It’s about the ways that hope and faith fill up the cracks in pain”

Hannah Chukwu is moved by the sensitivity of this production of 'Dying Light'

In conversation with the directors of ‘Anna Karenina’

Jeevan Ravindran discovers how the three directors developed this new musical

Preview: Suddenly Last Summer

Jorge Lopez Llorente is transfixed by a dynamic production of a Tennessee Williams' hidden gem

Preview: Three Men in a Boot: A Rather Sketchy Show

If your finger isn’t on the pulse of the Oxford comedy scene, this comic extravaganza may be just the thing you need to pull...

A word from the stalls

Miriam Nemmaoui accosts a teary-eyed audience member emerging from the Burton Taylor Studio, after the final showing of STOP

Review: ‘Two Way Mirror’

Alice Robinson reflects on an admirable attempt to tackle a difficult pair of plays
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