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Surfing the Holyland

Like a surfer delivering a tricky roundhouse cutback, US writer and actor Erin Hunter has delivered something rare, special and worth watching. In a m...
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Unexpected Twist

The touring company of Michael Rosen’s Unexpected Twist has reached Oxford and lives up to its very fine reputation. Adapted from the book by Michael ...
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Aspects of Love

'Aspects of Love' was a great success at the back end of the 1980s, helping to make the name of Michael Ball through his association with its hit numb...
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Brokeback Mountain

Unbelievably, it is getting on for twenty years now since the making of the film of 'Brokeback Mountain'. Such is its impact that it is hard to imagin...
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Anna Karenina

Writer Lesley Hart and director Polina Kalinina bring plenty of zest and visual panache to this ambitious production of Russian classic Anna Karenina....
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My Marquee
Barb Jungr and her Trio

It’s an old chestnut that if you can remember the Sixties, you weren’t there, man.  I can remember the sounds of the Sixties extremely well, and right...
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Bleak Expectations

Restaging something that has been much beloved in another format can be a double-edged sword. How do you maintain the sense of the original while givi...
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Agrippina

Handel wrote a lot of operas and some are better than others. Agrippina was written for the Venice Carnival of 1710 and the textbooks tell us that it ...
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Es and Flo

Jennifer Lunn must be relieved. Not only did Es and Flo turn out to be a remarkable and captivating play about the strength of unity in the face of ad...