REVIEW: Ballet Black’s Heroes
Reading Time: 3 minutes‘Ballet Black’ breathe exciting new life into a classical art form, smashing through multiple glass ceilings while retaining faultless beauty.
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REVIEW: Blue Stockings
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe creativity of the Oxford Playhouse’s Young Company came shining through before the show even began. Audience members were invited up onto the stage itself, transformed into a beautifully intimate black box performance space. The audience were seated in traverse configuration, framing a stage flooded with warm light, enhanced by a gobo to imitate sunlight through stained glass. This, alongside the University of Cambridge banners hanging from the flies, situated us vividly within a College chapel.
REVIEW: Frankenstein
Reading Time: 3 minutesExperimental theatre company Imitating The Dog have transformed the Oxford Playhouse stage into an immediately striking fusion of theatre and technology, the perfect backdrop for modern Gothic retellings.
REVIEW: Black Is The Color Of My Voice
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs part of its current UK tour, the acclaimed play, ‘Black Is The Color Of My Voice’ graced the Oxford Playhouse stage in a sell-out 10 year anniversary performance. Written and performed by Apphia Campbell, the storyline follows Mina Bordeaux’s journey from musical prodigy to influential Civil Rights activist. T
REVIEW: The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much
Reading Time: 2 minutesInternational physical theatre company Vozol Collective have created a wonderfully unique show which I feel very lucky to have watched on opening night, fresh from its successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe.
REVIEW: Woodhill
Reading Time: 3 minutesLUNG’s intention of exposing the untold horrors of Woodhill’s prison system is achieved to staggering effect, encompassing stunning choreography alongside heart-wrenching verbatim.