Theatre

Sin and nectar: Behind the scenes of ‘Women Beware Women’

I arrived at a rehearsal of Women Beware Women and found Hippolito (Kit Parsons) and Isabella (Céline Mathilda), uncle and niece, embracing and sharing an incestous kiss flavoured by...

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Well-managed complexity: ‘In Praise of Love’

In Praise of Love by Terence Rattigan was a play well-chosen in today’s political...

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‘Extremely funny and emotionally intense’: ‘Your Funeral’ at the Burton Taylor Studio

Your Funeral is Pharaoh Productions’ debut play written by Nick Samuel, about the last...

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‘A team of criers’: Behind the scenes of ‘Uncle Vanya’

Nothing makes me more excited about a theatre production than hearing a director talk...

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‘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

Don’t miss your STOP

Hannah Arndt is full of enthusiasm for a preview of an original student musical

Review: ‘Collaborators’

Tilly Nevin rates this student production as amongst the best she has seen in Oxford

Review: STOP

Amaris Proctor admires this play's refreshingly frank attitude towards mental illness

A fusion of movement, light, and sound

Christopher James Goring finds much to admire in the complexity of Illuminated

Review: John Hodge’s ‘Collaborators’

Bessie Yuill finds herself simultaneously amused and disturbed by this dark tragedy about a fictional meeting between Stalin and Bulgakov

Review: ‘Edward II’

Susannah Goldsbrough is captivated by Oxford's finest acting talents and their leather leggings

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Theatre

Sin and nectar: Behind the scenes of ‘Women Beware Women’

Well-managed complexity: ‘In Praise of Love’

‘Extremely funny and emotionally intense’: ‘Your Funeral’ at the Burton Taylor Studio

‘A team of criers’: Behind the scenes of ‘Uncle Vanya’

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