Oxford PLAYHOUSE

The play revolves around the Price family – Fran, the strong, often abrasive, matriarch; Bob, the gentle paterfamilias; Pip, the eldest, a career-woman and mother; Mark, the first-born son, something of a cipher to beg...

Some of the subtle humour of the play is in the gentle rivalry from area to area across Ulster, and the soft differences in regional accents are impeccable. There are no gimmicks here – very few props; a little (very e...

I think a sense of social consciousness and moral outrage makes A Tale of Two Cities the perfect play to stage in 2016 – a tale in which a bitter class struggle rages; where the fear of one’s own fellow countryman is...

Glasgow Girls tells the story of what it’s like to be an immigrant in a strange place, somewhere you’ve never even heard of. The girls of the play arrive in Glasgow and are allowed to live there for most of their tee...

Theatre company Spymonkey takes each of the 75 onstage deaths from Shakespeare’s plays and acts them out over a couple of hours. The production asks questions about the nature of theatre, and why we attend plays – to...

Mercury Theatre Colchester has arrived at the Oxford Playhouse this week with their polished, confident, and cringingly funny production of Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park. Set in the same suburban American house, with t...

Circa Tsuica is a French company of entertainers who are making their UK debut with the Opus 7 tour. Their show is a combination of excellent music (primarily on brass instruments) and acrobatics. Their stage interaction...

Terrence Rattigan’s 1940s play Flare Path is a love story set against the backdrop of a town near an RAF airbase during the Second World War. Actress Patricia Warren is married to a dashing and confident young bomber p...

A particular combination of satire, wit, silliness and audience participation, pantomime remains a singularly British tradition and obsession, and the last remnants of a British variety tradition. No-where else would you...

Name the two most influential British women of the past 50 years. I can confidently predict (mainly because we are not face to face, so I can happily make up statistics with no fear of repercussions) that 95% of you said...

There were some really lovely moments. In one scene, the jugglers were working with clubs, rolling them in circles on the floor. They became waves, and the ballet dancers leant on the jugglers backs, as if they were floa...

". . . The Disney LITTLE MERMAID can be seen as a romantic love story, where Ariel gives up her home for love, but finds freedom when she swaps her fins for feet. Instead, here the emphasis is on the fact that the mermai...