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Oxford Shakespeare Company: Romeo and Juliet
5:00am Thursday 2nd July 2009
GILES WOODFORDE on a Romeo and Juliet production set and performed in Oxford
Justitia: Oxford Playhouse
5:10am Thursday 2nd July 2009
Next week dance legend Jasmin Vardimon brings her latest work Justitia to the Oxford Playhouse. It’s a whodunnit, she tells our dance critic David Bellan
Have your say »Spider's Web: Oxford Playhouse
3:11pm Wednesday 1st July 2009
The Agatha Christie Theatre Company exists to promote and tour those works by The First Lady of Crime that have been adapted, or specifically created, for the theatre. Last year, the Playhouse hosted a splendid version of And Then There Were None, where the body count mounts in a plot which, though creaky, holds the interest.
Private Fears in Public Places: Royal & Derngate, Northampton
3:13pm Wednesday 1st July 2009
The Royal & Derngate continues its festival celebrating the 70th birthday of Sir Alan Ayckbourn with a welcome revival of his touching – and a tad depressing – Private Fears in Public Places, written in 2004.
Horrible Histories: New Theatre
9:22am Thursday 25th June 2009
HELEN PEACOCKE previews the stage adaptation of two of Terry Deary’s Horrible Histories in Oxford next week
Preview: Henley Festival 2009
9:20am Thursday 25th June 2009
NICOLA LISLE looks at some of the main attractions of this year’s Henley Festival
Dancing in my Dreams: OTC, touring
9:42am Thursday 25th June 2009
The Barn at Blackbird Leys was a new venue to me, but with its rustic legacy and up-to-date facilities, it made a perfect setting for Oxfordshire Theatre Company’s new production, Dancing In My Dreams, in which Karen Simpson with musical director Andrew Dodge, writer Neil Duffield and designer Laura McEwan have brought to life a poignant chapter in our history.
Birmingham Royal Ballet: Birmingham Hippodrome
9:34am Thursday 25th June 2009
Sir Fred and Mr B is the title of a new programme in which the company salutes two of the great choreographers of the last century, Sir Frederick Ashton and George Balanchine. Mr B’s contribution is Mozartiana, which I reviewed recently when it came to Cheltenham. It’s a series of abstract classical dances (well, that’s what you expect from Mr B) set to Tchaikovsky’s rather sugary tribute to the style of Mozart. Pleasant enough; the most enjoyable moments came from Elisha Willis. What a transformation she then underwent to become the alluring gypsy seductress in Sir Fred’s masterpiece, The Two Pigeons!
Gaslight: Tomahawk Theatre Company, North Wall and Kenton Theatre, Henley
9:21am Thursday 25th June 2009
While Patrick Hamilton’s excellent novels provide an uncomfortably accurate picture of life as it was led (by rackety characters such as himself at least) in the first half of the last century, his much-better-known stage plays, Rope and Gaslight, possess plots that stretch credibility to breaking point and beyond. They remain first-class entertainment, however, as professional revivals demonstrated to my satisfaction two years ago – Rope at the Watermill Theatre, Gaslight at the Old Vic.
The Merchant of Venice: Propeller, The Oxford Playhouse
9:23am Thursday 25th June 2009
The leafy delights of an Athenian wood with its fairy denizens were swapped for the dank and depressing atmosphere of a jail as Propeller followed its production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with a second Shakespeare play performed last week at the Playhouse in very different style.
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