Reviewer's Rating Clybourne Park Mel Cooper 19/05/2016ruce Norris had a great success with his play Clybourne Park in American and in the UK when it was...
Reviewer's Rating Of Mice and Men Mel Cooper 11/05/2016ohn Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men was an unexpected success when it was published; but as I understand it,...
Reviewer's Rating King Lear Mel Cooper 27/04/2016he new production of King Lear directed intelligently by Max Webster and highlighting a powerful performance by Michael Pennington is...
Reviewer's Rating Snow White Mel Cooper 11/04/2016was deeply impressed by the Ballet Lorent’s retelling in dance of Snow White. A seriously impressive show in the idiom...
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 Flare Path Mel Cooper 08/02/2016was very keen to catch up with this play, which is now touring extensively in a solidly cast and directed...
Aladdin Mel Cooper 08/12/2015he pantomime season is upon us and I have just attended the Oxford Playhouse contribution to the genre for 2015...
Finding the Playmakers of the Future Mel Cooper 06/06/2015Mel Cooper talks to Louise Chantal, CEO of the Oxford Playhouse, about her new initiative to find and encourage the...
Reviewer's Rating Richard Alston Dance Company Mel Cooper 30/05/2015he extensive January-through-May Spring tour of the Richard Alston Dance Company ended at the Oxford Playhouse on 27 May this...
Reviewer's Rating Arcadia Mel Cooper 15/04/2015om Stoppard’s truly wonderful play, Arcadia, is something of a jigsaw puzzle and just as much a crossword puzzle. It...
