Oxford PLAYHOUSE

★★★★☆ Steve Marmion, the Writer and Director, is a dab hand at this now, and his note in the programme about remaining loyal to the Great British Pantomime traditions of justice, gender fluidity, equality, fem...

★★★★★ There’s a real feeling of girl power and camaraderie, which I think is what attracted me to the show so much. The whole experience made for a roaringly good night, with the audience on their feet by t...

★★★★☆ There is a great deal of poignancy in this play: when we realise that Susie’s younger sister, Lindsey, is now older than her, or when she watches her father lose his grip on his world, and her mother ...

★★★★☆ This play is warm-hearted and excellently produced and acted – Katy Federman as Nigel’s mum, in particular, is wonderful. If you want a tale of the difficulties of growing up, tempered with a burst o...

★★★★☆  This is a sunny, funny piece of musical theatre, which deals lightly and cleverly with difficult themes of death, suicide, and disappointment, all tempered with family love and support. I challenge you...

★★★☆☆ Based on the Henry James 1898 novella, this version travels back and forth between an adult Flora confronting her former governess, to thirty years previously (1840) when The Governess went to look after...

★★★☆☆  Napoli, Brooklyn tells a story of an Italian-American immigrant family living in Brooklyn in the 1960s. The mother, Luda, is trying to bring up three daughters – Francesca, Tina, and Vita – with lov...

★★★☆☆  The shadow of the film looms large and is a hard act to follow even 25 years on. There is so much in this piece that is unsaid which is hard to convey onstage. However, this was a good ensemble performa...

★★★★★ This play from Frantic Assembly combines the stories of soldiers from 1918, 2013 and 2026, united by the fact that they are all coming home to Scarborough. ...

★★★★☆ This is the story of escaped criminal, Mitch Ruscitti, and his attempt to steal a priceless diamond from a bank in Minneapolis, the town where ‘everyone’s a crook’. He enlists the help of hapless p...

★★★★★ Dick Whittington is a gift to a pantomime writer when the main character's name has certain connotations and every mention gets a laugh. But Steve Marmion, the writer and director, also cleverly includes ...

★★★★☆ This is a joyous, bawdy romp which tackles some pretty unsavoury subjects. Blood is not always thicker than water and here, theatre often makes up for family dysfunction. Rice has put together a great e...