★★★★★ ‘13’ is as stiff a challenge as you could imagine for this year’s BOVTS graduates. With multiple scene changes and cross-over conversations in a first half alone that stretched to almost an hour and a half, this ensemble were always on top of the material
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Offbeat Fringe Festival has returned to Oxford for its second year, and this time, it’s even bigger than before. Based in the Burton Taylor Studio and the Old Fire Station, this year’s programme has a great selection of musicians, actors, comedians, and other artists bringing their craft to Oxford from 23rd June to 2nd July.
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In keeping with their philosophy of offering plays that are tailored to and relevant for a particular age group the egg has staged a new play by Bristol playwright Margarita Sidirokastriti, which imagines the journey of a young refugee from an unspecified African (or North African) country
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★★★☆☆ Oscar Wilde is associated with satirical comedy rather than tragedy, but Salomé from 1892 deals with the destructive power of supressed sexuality with passion and theatricality and, if not a classic, deserves its occasional revival to reflect changing attitudes in society.
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★★☆☆☆ I am always sympathetic to actors trying to rescue flawed material but there’s no salvaging some works. Trespass by Emlyn Williams is hardly a masterpiece and all the goodwill in the world could not coax from me a merciful opinion of its worth.
Read More★★★☆☆ Millie’s ‘modern’ is to realize that she ain’t going nowhere without a rich guy to give her the life she wants, so she turns up the gold digging dial. In a scene that could have come out of a dating guide written by Donald Trump,
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