“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.”

“It’s a very simple set up: six actors sit in a row on the stage in West Oxford Community Centre on Botley Road and tell the stories of six members of our community…It was a privilege to be a witness to these personal experiences,and to feel such a wonderful sense of community, though I did also feel like a bit of an inferior human being in the presence of such passion, whether their stands were successful or not…. Inspirational, funny, moving, I can’t recommend this highly enough.”