Review: Guys and Dolls
The art of acting, at its best, is a way to lift an audience out of one reality and deposit them in another. It can take us to worlds of the…
Review: Oxford Revue and Friends
Ladies and Gentlemen, the fiery host Naz Osmanoglu presents you the comedy dream team – that is the Oxford Revue, the Durham Revue and the Cambridge Footlights - for a night…
Table Reading: an OUDS initiative
I approached the White Rabbit on a balmy Thursday evening with a little trepidation for the first instalment of Plays in the Pub. The new OUDS initiative is a way…
Review: The Lesson
Rarely has the phrase “My tutor’s going to kill me” had greater resonance. In Eugène Ionesco’s The Lesson, the Pupil (Missy Malek) arrives at the house of the Professor (Hannah Bristow),…
Ed Barr-Sim’s Frost/Nixon rehearsal diary: Part Two – I love rehearsals in the springtime
So, it’s been almost two weeks of full rehearsals and there’re another three weeks to go. There’s things to look back on and improvements to look forward to. The almighty…
Knot taking our breath away
You might know the Old Fire Station as that modern-looking contemporary art gallery in Gloucester Green, where you can buy expensive postcards and designer mugs, or other such arty…
Preview: The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie is one of Tennessee Williams’s best-known plays. From the few scenes this preview offered, it seems that the audience will face a rather conventional interpretation. This is…
Midnight at the Rue Morgue – Preview
Torch in hand, I was thrown into the grimy fragments of Edgar Allan Poe’s world. Four tables, five actors and a scattering of roses, tarot cards and surgical instruments…
