REVIEW: Another Goodbye
Reading Time: 3 minutes"Adie Mueller’s ‘Another Goodbye’ is a tender-hearted testament to theatre’s cathartic abilities"
Ella Thornburn
REVIEW: Please Right Back
Reading Time: 2 minutesInternationally acclaimed theatre company 1927 situated audiences in their wacky, transformative world from the moment of entering the auditorium.
REVIEW: Portals and Parallels: Oxford’s Hidden Worlds
Reading Time: 2 minutesPortals and Parallels exposes the duality between Oxford’s privileged surface and the often overlooked areas within it in an informative and entirely unique manner.
REVIEW: MotherHood
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs I took my seat in Oxford’s Burton Taylor Studio, I was instantly struck by how many people my age had come to see MotherHood. It's not often that a new one-woman play in a small theatre attracts the 15- 20 year old demographic, though MotherHood was sold out for a second night running, following public demand for more. The second the play began, it was obvious why. Against a projected backdrop of Oxford’s streets, verbatim recordings played the voices of teen boys, sharing their experience growing up ‘in endz’. Instantly I was taken aback by the familiarity of these testimonies; if you’d had told me these were my old classmates speaking I would have believed you.
REVIEW: Pigeons in Transit
Reading Time: 3 minutesWriter and performer Hannah Fredsgaard-Jones’ one woman show demonstrates just this, depicting the universal struggle between denial, fear and hope through ingenious use of storytelling and creativity. Dressed in bubblegum blue doc martens and a bright orange gilet- she is a picture of the modern woman. Her apartment is furnished with a large, hot pink inflatable plastic sofa, and a coffee table displaying an aspirational selection of books- ‘How To Fail’; ‘Mending Life’ and ‘How To Read A Tree’ to name a few. However, as she paces around her flat in an agitated manner before using the book stack as a stand for her iphone, it seems the curiosity these titles suggest has been abandoned in the face of despair.
REVIEW: Out Of Bounds at Oxford Queer Fest
Reading Time: 2 minutesFresh from development on the Oxford Playhouse’s very own Playmaker’s programme, the rehearsed reading of Out Of Bounds provided an impactful and touching end to Oxford Queer Fest.
REVIEW: The Death & Life of All of Us at Oxford Queer Fest
Reading Time: 2 minutesUpon entering the intimate Burton Taylor studio, awash with softly glowing orange light and Victor Esses smiling kindly at his audience, I instantly felt a sort of comforting nostalgia.
REVIEW: I, Victor at Oxford Queer Fest
Reading Time: 2 minutesIssy Flower’s surprising piece of new writing was a highly successful debut, forming a confident and tantalising opening to Oxford’s Burton Taylor studio’s first ever Queer Fest.
REVIEW: The Invert at Oxford Queer Fest
Reading Time: 2 minutesDebuting at Queer Fest on Thursday 20th was Lily Sheldon’s historicization of the author Marguerite Radclyffe Hall’s trial for obscenity.
REVIEW: Hump Day at Oxford Queer Fest
Reading Time: 2 minutesJames Pickthall’s brand new script Hump Day debuted in an original rehearsed reading, providing a thought provoking end to Oxford Queer Fest’s Thursday night lineup.