Powerful and Emotional: The Opening Night of Frost/Nixon Completely Delivers
Though perhaps weighed down by a slightly sluggish start where the occasional delivery was hampered by an occasionally overpowering soundtrack, and even if characters seemed to take some time to…
Review: She Stoops to Conquer
Yesterday evening’s weather put UC’s annual garden play at a disadvantage. There was the inevitable fear of rain, and the audience were afraid to laugh in case they swallowed a…
Review: Arcadia
From a purely aesthetic point of view, the President’s Garden in Magdalen College provided a marvellous backdrop to this skilful and enjoyable production of Arcadia, yet, with an irony that Stoppard himself…
Review: Comic Mysteries
I am not sure what I expected of Comic Mysteries, directed by Sami Ibrahim, but it certainly did not match up with the performance that greeted me as I entered…
Preview: The Cosmonaut’s Last Message To The Woman He Once Loved In The Former Soviet Union
Heavy brows and chiselled features abound in the aesthetically convincing cast of David Greig’s The Cosmonaut’s Last Message To The Woman He Once Loved In The Former Soviet Union, co-directed…
Stade-up comedy
How did you get into comedy? You know what; I always wanted to be an actor. That’s what my mom had planned for me. But one night, I…
The Wind in the Willows: a Toad Hall success
With the arrival of the summer weather and the onset of garden play season, it feels distinctly appropriate for a theatrical rendition of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows…
Remembering Patrick Garland
The Oxford drama scene in 1958 was marked by the return of graduate Peter Dews, then a director for BBC Midlands, to direct an open-air production of Henry V in…
