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March 4, 2020 Reviews

A Little Space, Oxford Playhouse

A Little Space, is a newly-devised production, a collaboration between Mind the Gap, one of Europe’s leading learning disability theatre companies, and

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February 18, 2020 Reviews

Madam Butterfly, Oxford Playhouse

Puccini’s masterpiece is reworked in this latest production from Opera Up Close, sung in English. In a run-down back street

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February 14, 2020 Reviews

Shadows of Troy, Oxford Playhouse

Oxford student company Stupid and Brave Productions banish the Battle of Troy to the interval by combining two classical Greek plays, Euripides’

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November 11, 2019 Reviews

The Lovely Bones, Oxford Playhouse

By Alice Sebold. Adapted by Bryony Lavery. Directed by Melly Still Susie Salmon is just like any other young girl.

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August 30, 2019 Reviews

Rouge, The Underbelly Festival Southbank

Promising ‘a decadent and astonishing blend of sensational acrobatics, soaring aerial trapeze, operatic cabaret and tongue in cheek burlesque’, Rouge

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July 30, 2019 Reviews

Wrath of Achilles, Union Theatre (Edinburgh Preview)

Distilling a significant chunk of Homer’s ancient epic into a fringe-friendly 55 minutes is a huge task, but one which

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June 21, 2019 Reviews

The Sandman, Southwark Playhouse

Nightmares and reality begin to blur as Nat, a talented fashion designer, is stalked by the figure of the Sandman,

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June 9, 2019 Reviews

Handel’s Messiah (II & III) – Porchester Halls

Billed as an intimate semi-immersive theatrical style concert, this performance of the latter two parts of Handel’s famous Messiah was

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June 8, 2019 Reviews

Kill Climate Deniers – Pleasance Theatre

The European premiere of David Finnigan’s controversially-titled satire successfully combines a deeply serious message with some some serious on-stage silliness,

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