Reviewer's Rating Salomé Shmuel Ben-Tovim 14/01/2019In 2014 pianist András Schiff wrote: “What is it with directors? Why is it that most directors find it so...
Reviewer's Rating In Lipstick Vera Mikusch 13/01/2019In Lipstick is a drama that is not short of comedy elements. While the theme of the storyline is through-and-through tragic,...
Reviewer’s Rating Frankenstein Ann Pryor 13/01/2019Can a monster ever be human? What do we make of a creator that repels its creation? And what of...
Reviewer's Rating Macbeth Mel Cooper 10/01/2019Rufus Norris makes this both a “Scottish” play and a contemporary one, setting his interpretation of Macbeth in a kind...
Reviewer’s Rating Jersey Boys Mel Cooper 08/01/2019The Christmas show in Oxford this year is a return of the touring company of Jersey Boys. If you like...
Reviewer’s Rating Sweat Rivka Jacobson 23/12/2018The very title of Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2015 play, ‘Sweat’, evokes the presence of pungent sensory stimuli. Nottage’s ‘Sweat’...
Reviewer's Rating La Bohème Alessandro Zummo 22/12/2018There are many reasons why Puccini’s La Bohème is one of the favourite opera of every theatre in the world:...
Reviewer's Rating The Merry Wives of Windsor Aleksandra Sakowska 22/12/2018The Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Merry Wives of Windsor is either a very good panto or a very...
Reviewer’s Rating Richard II Aleksandra Sakowska 20/12/2018In his adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard II, Joe Hill-Gibbins channels Beckettian grotesque with great results by focusing on exaggeration and...
Reviewer's Rating The Convert Nicholas Potter 20/12/2018The Convert is a historical play that explores Africa’s fraught colonial past. Jekesai (Letitia Wright) seeks refuge from her uncle...
