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 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 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...
Reviewer's Rating Aladdin Richard McKee 19/12/2018“Everything you could wish for in a panto” is what the blurb says and, no doubt about it, that’s absolutely...
Reviewer's Rating Timon of Athens Mel Cooper 18/12/2018One of the most difficult and least-performed of Shakespeare’s plays and one that is now thought to have been a...
Reviewer's Rating A Christmas Carol Mel Cooper 18/12/2018This is the perfect Christmas treat for young and old. The production is visually striking, evoking brilliantly the bustle of...
