“…Noel Coward plays are quite fashionable – over the past year or so, I’ve seen quite a number of Coward’s short plays grouped together to create an evening of theatre….I thoroughly enjoyed Tonight at 8.30 and if you like elegant costumes, nuanced silences and sparkling dialogue, I suggest you snap up tickets for all nine plays and overdose on Noel Coward this week…”
Read More“…It is amazing. From the visual impact of the stage as I step into the auditorium, to the last bow as the house lights rise, there isn’t a sour note in the production. Joseph Heller adapted the novel for the stage himself, so although there are a fair few deviances from the novel, the play remains true to the tone and message of the book…I advise you to see this play.”
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“A wonderfully silly piece of theatre, Betty Blue Eyes could only have been invented by Alan Bennett…. I always enjoy a musical, and this one is very catchy, hitting all the right notes (pun intended) with the audience. As I write my review, I find myself humming A Place on the Parade and Fair Shares for All. The bigger dance numbers were particularly good, and I wouldn’t have minded a few more of these….If you need a laugh during this rainy week, I would encourage you to visit the Oxford Playhouse and let Betty Blue Eyes cheer you up.”
Read More“…the tale is, as Danny Braverman describes it, “bitter-sweet, funny in parts, poignant in others”. It tells the story of the Jewish experience in London from the 1920s, through the Second World War, and on to the 1980s, and yet has a wonderfully universal feel, intertwining history and culture and family in the way that really great storytelling can do…”
Read More… is a new play, written for the World War One centenary. The title, taken from Philip Larkin’s poem MCMXIV, evokes the prevalent frivolous feeling among young men as they signed up for war in 1914, not realising that many of them were signing their own death warrants.
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