Shells bobs along, but never makes a splash
✮✮✮ Engimatic, Beckettian, intriguing – Shells received excellent previews. Certainly, the set is impeccable: a beachcomber’s paradise, strewn with sand, flotsam and jetsam. Subtle lighting suggests...
View ArticleCan’t Stand Up For Falling Down poised to captivate
“It’s not exactly festive fare, no”. Carla Kingham, director of Kellogg College’s upcoming production of Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down, is as understated about her new project as she is passionate....
View ArticleAn heroic attempt to Handel Hercules
✮✮✮ St John the Evangelist’s feels like a strangely appropriate setting to host a piece of musical theatre in which the son of a god dies in agony, betrayed by one that he thought loved him. It is...
View ArticlePericles gets there in general
✮✮✮ In 1629, no less a critic than Ben Jonson decried Pericles as “stale”. Despite the valiant attempts of cast and director, the first half of the play still seems long, dull and turgid. As Pericles...
View ArticleAladdin sane as expected
✮✮✮✮ The Keble O’Reilly filled up pretty well for the opening night of Aladdin, and it soon became clear why. Aladdin is not, admittedly, the most novel choice for a pantomime. But this was the only...
View ArticleHilarious sketch – go and see Kvetch
✮✮✮✮ I laughed and laughed and as I cycled home I was still laughing. Kvetch, on at the Burton Taylor Studio until Saturday, is hilarious. The word is of Yiddish origin and means to complain or whine...
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