Review: An Inspector Calls
It’s always a challenge to take on a classic, but you wouldn’t know it from watching St Hilda’s College Drama Society’s charged rendition of J.B. Priestley’s ‘drawing room’ classic, An…
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…
Review: Lead Feathers
Nearly 60 years ago, Kenneth Tynan saw in Tabitha what yesterday I saw in Lead Feathers: At discreet intervals, a ‘plot point’ is made; between points, the characters brew tea,…
Review: The Winterling
A dark and profound danger sulks under Butterworth’s repartee. It is not precisely the same kind of darkness we find in Pinter’s early plays. The old master himself called this…
The Trial’s Verdict
Having just run across Oxford in order to catch the first showing of The Trial at the Burton Taylor Studio, I was quite flustered as I took my seat and…
