A Little Night Music Preview
Set in fin de siècle Sweden, A Little Night Music is Stephen Sondheim’s Tony award winning musical which, under the helm of the co-directors Griffith Rees and Jack Noutch, already…
Diagnosis Kafka: A Country Doctor, BT Studio
Kafka. The name alone is usually enough to send shivers through you. Personally, the addition of a creepy groom, a raped girl and a dying boy seemed completely unnecessary, if…
Why posh is setting the scene
What is it about Oxbridge that inspires such controversy? From the eternal discussion of the amount of state school/black/free school meal pupils who get in and how these statistics are…
Ex-St Catz Thesps Celebrate the College’s 50th Anniversary
2012 marks fifty years since St Catherine’s became a college and this momentous occasion was celebrated in true Oxonian style: with a series of lectures delivered by prestigious alumni and…
Oh, the Humanity at the Soho Theatre
Even the most popular plays have their critics and nothing is universally admired. Something you like, someone else will despise and a production you loathe will inevitably be adored elsewhere…
Love and Information at the Royal Court
Love and Information at the Royal Court is a new play by Caryl Churchill which essentially appropriates the quick-fire format of sketch comedy for dramatic purpose. The play is divided…
Not a fallen woman: Hedda Gabler at The Old Vic
Hedda Gabler comes as a ray of (admittedly malevolent) sunshine amidst a September darkened with fallen women. Keira Knightley’s disappointing, if extremely handsome, Anna Karenina is both the dull seductress…
Review: Dead On Her Feet at The North Wall/Arcola
In 1920s America, a craze swept the nation which provided escapism for those languishing in the Great Depression: dance marathons caught the public imagination. Entrants were required simply to dance…
