REVIEW: It’s Nothing Personal, It’s Just Business
Reading Time: 2 minutesA new play It’s Nothing Personal, It’s Just Business, written and co-produced by Kelsey Marlowe Jessup, debuting at the Barons Court Theatre
Month April 2025
REVIEW: Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of)
Reading Time: 2 minutesIsobel McArthur's Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is an inventive and modernised take on the classic novel, blending humour and a touch of musical flair to create an unforgettable theatrical experience.
FEATURE: Showdown – a high-energy circus show about our obsession with winning
Reading Time: 2 minutesSix acrobats race to become ‘the new face of circus’ in a satirical show about winning, asking questions about media and identity, tokenism, and our desire to beat the competition.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Jamie Saul
Reading Time: 7 minutesFive years and nine productions after their first staging of ‘The Tempest’, award-nominated theatre company Brave Mirror return with a new version of their maiden show, and Shakespeare’s final masterpiece running from April 24 - April 26 at the Cockpit Theatre. A Youngish Perspective holds this exclusive conversation with the artistic director of Brave Mirror -Jamie Saul.
REVIEW: The Rocky Horror Show
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe auditorium shivered with antici…pation as the cast of The Rocky Horror Show tour 2024/25 took to the stage of Oxford’s New Theatre.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Arran Kirby
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Arran Kirby, part of the community cast taking part in National Theatre's Public Record
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Kirk Dunn
Reading Time: 9 minutesWe sat down with Canadian Kirk Dunn for an exclusive interview before his one-man show comes to the UK in May. 15-years in the making this show explores how his creative and spiritual marathon (creating three huge, knitted panels, designed in the style of stained-glass windows) highlighted to him commonalities and conflicts between the Abrahamic Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
REVIEW: Music for the Quarter-Life Crisis
Reading Time: 2 minutesStrong performances shone through a programme that lacked cohesion and depth. Temporal Harmonies Inc. brought a bold but uneven programme of new music to Wigmore Hall, curated by Zygmund de Somogyi as part of the RPS 2025…
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Mike Tweddle
Reading Time: 3 minutesNext week, Oxford Playhouse and Out of Chaos bring a bold new of Macbeth to the
stage, featuring just two award-winning actors who play over twenty roles.
The production is directed by Mike Tweddle, the Artistic Director and CEO of Oxford
Playhouse, who co-founded Out of Chaos seventeen years ago. Before the production's
run at The Playhouse, we spoke with Mike, who told us more about what to expect from this fresh take on Shakespeare's tragedy.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Briony Martha and Zak Reay-Barry
Reading Time: 5 minutesBriony Martha and Zak Reay-Barry “Do Astronauts Masturbate in Space?” (aka “DAMIS?”) is their first joint writing venture, premiering at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. a dystopian dark comedy, set in a very bonkers Britain where due to overpopulation, everyone now needs a licence, or a “Stork Card” to have kids.