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Review: THE TROJAN HORSE at The NorthWall, Oxford

★★★★☆ The story doesn’t pull any punches. The cast told us that they’re taking the production to the Houses of Parliament – and I certainly wouldn’t like to be Michael Gove watching this! The play uses evidence from interviews, public documents, and transcripts of hearings to present a scathing critique of modern British society.

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Review: CAN I HELP YOU? at the North Wall, Oxford

★★★★☆ This is a play about mental health and depression; it’s about dysfunctional families, and death, and love. Philip Osment has written a short drama that encapsulates how difficult it can sometimes be just to exist, and how sometimes all it takes is offering someone a little hope.

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SKYLIGHT at the Old Fire Station, Oxford

Part of the cleverness of this play is in the way Hare has brought the 1950s-style kitchen sink drama into a 1990s setting, where the entire action of the play takes place, quite literally, around the kitchen sink. This is Kyra’s world – she teaches children in a central London comprehensive, she travels on the bus, she lives in a tiny, unheated flat.

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Review: BLEAK HOUSE at Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford

★★★★☆ I warmly recommend seeing this play – it’s rich and nuanced, and a fascinating entry point to Dickens’s world of the courts and the poverty and fog of the London streets. You might even, like me, be inspired to pick up a copy of the original novel (after all, you are in a bookshop). 

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