Review: The Glass Menagerie
Classics are always difficult to stage: either you follow convention and risk being labelled boring, or you throw caution to the winds and add some wacky directorial spin for the…
Review: The Wizard of Oz
If you’re looking for something with as much cheese as Park End, The Wizard of Oz is the one to see. I last watched it when I was about eight and the…
Review: 1984
“Big Brother is watching you.” CCTV cameras, flashing lights, a projection screen that covered an entire wall of the stage set; who was being watched? The actors or the audience members?…
Review: Hay Fever
On the sun-drenched quad of Brasenose College, the Pimms is being poured and Cole Porter’s ‘Let’s Do It’ provides the perfect back-drop to the sparkling comedy that is Noël Coward’s Hay Fever,…
No Sacred Cows in The Goat
Two and a half hours, an extraordinarily intimate venue, a small cast, a script of high tragedy. A challenge, for sure. And one made all the greater by the fact that…
Review: Midnight at the Rue Morgue
You’ll be given a black mask as you enter the Burton Taylor Studio, but don’t expect to be able to hide behind it. You will be interrogated, glowered at, and accused…
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…
