Carmen Mel Cooper 01/03/2016 I have now attended all three of the operas that Ellen Kent is touring around the country at the moment. Without a doubt, the strongest is Carmen; Tos...
King Charles III Mel Cooper 27/02/2016 I normally dislike “what if” novels and plays, rewrites of or projections onto history, so I was quite sceptical about the play King Charles III by Mi...
The Snow Maiden Mel Cooper 23/02/2016 I’m slightly reluctant fan of the Russian State Ballet of Siberia. They come through Oxford about once a year on their tours and lately I always try t...
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing Rebecca Coates 20/02/2016 Annie Ryan's magnificent adaptation of Eimear McBride's seminal novel was first performed two years ago in Dublin, and has just started its six week r...
Chicago Mel Cooper 18/02/2016 I saw the latest cast of Kander and Ebb’s Chicago in Oxford where it was starting on a new tour. The production is the same one that comes from New Yo...
Battlefield Camille Hainsworth-Staples 16/02/2016 We meet newly established King Yudishtira (Jared McNeill) on the battlefield strewn with the bodies of his army and enemy. As he scours the battlefiel...
Of Mice and Men Harry Tennison 10/02/2016 If you say you haven’t heard of John Steinbeck’s most famous work, people give you funny looks, as if you’d just renounced the fact that the Earth is ...
Flare Path Mel Cooper 08/02/2016 I was very keen to catch up with this play, which is now touring extensively in a solidly cast and directed production. It has become a work of some h...
I Loved Lucy Camille Hainsworth-Staples 08/02/2016 Popular 1950s sitcom ‘I Love Lucy’ star Lucille Ball (Sandra Dickinson) is a household name and beloved figure across America. Her number one fan, a y...
Macbeth Harry Tennison 27/01/2016 We regularly hear of radical reinterpretations of Shakespeare classics. Perhaps we will not find such a version that stretches the bard’s work as the ...
