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...
Reviewer's Rating Anthony and Cleopatra Nicholas Potter 16/12/2018Simon Godwin’s Antony and Cleopatra is an intricate masterpiece that makes good use of heavy-hitting actors while also boasting a...
Reviewer’s Rating Murder for Two Richard Voyce 16/12/2018Much is made in the programme for Murder for Two – the show which has just ensconced itself for Christmas...
