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Dev's Army: Old Fire Station, Oxford

A well-crafted play with a good cast is the perfect theatrical recipe — and that is what was delivered by Dev’s Army as part of Oxfringe. read more
Petit Mal: The Oxford Playhouse

There was a packed house for this remarkable show — they were even turning people away — and those who had seats certainly got their money’s worth. read more
Julius Caesar: The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

Since we have long been expected — quite properly — to be colour blind over casting at the theatre, why has any presentation of Africa on the stage necessarily to be made, it would seem, through the use, almost exclusively, of black actors? This question is prompted by Gregory Doran’s excellent new Stratford production of Julius Caesar, which shifts the action of the play from Rome to an unspecified state in what used to be called the Dark Continent. read more

Archive - Wednesday, 13 June 2012