Reviewer's rating All’s Well That Ends Well Rebecca Coates 02/04/2016ike Measure for Measure, All’s Well That Ends Well is a ‘problem play’ rather than a true comedy, a play...
Reviewer's Rating Thriller, Live Mel Cooper 16/03/2016went to Thriller, Live, a Michael Jackson Tribute Show and pop concert, in a sceptical frame of mind. My wife,...
Reviewer's Rating Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Mel Cooper 11/03/2016remember a rather famous movie star associated with old MGM musicals once saying to me that people should not sneer...
Reviewer's Rating The Tailor of Inverness Harry Tennison 04/03/2016ever have I seen an audience so quickly break into rapturous applause as I did at Matthew Zajac’s The Tailor...
Reviewer's Rating Carmen Mel Cooper 01/03/2016have now attended all three of the operas that Ellen Kent is touring around the country at the moment. Without...
Reviewer's Rating King Charles III Mel Cooper 27/02/2016normally dislike “what if” novels and plays, rewrites of or projections onto history, so I was quite sceptical about the...
Reviewer's Rating The Snow Maiden Mel Cooper 23/02/2016’m slightly reluctant fan of the Russian State Ballet of Siberia. They come through Oxford about once a year on...
Reviewer's rating A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing Rebecca Coates 20/02/2016nnie Ryan’s magnificent adaptation of Eimear McBride’s seminal novel was first performed two years ago in Dublin, and has just...
Reviewer's Rating Chicago Mel Cooper 18/02/2016saw the latest cast of Kander and Ebb’s Chicago in Oxford where it was starting on a new tour. The...
Reviewer's Rating Battlefield Camille Hainsworth-Staples 16/02/2016e meet newly established King Yudishtira (Jared McNeill) on the battlefield strewn with the bodies of his army and enemy....