Dick Whittington: Chipping Norton Theatre
‘I’d like four candles, please,” says a customer in Alderman Fitzwarren’s shop, reprising one of Ronnie Barker’s best jokes (now commemorated in the name of JD Wetherspoon’s pub in George Street, Oxford.
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The Glass Menagerie: Chipping Norton Theatre
FOUR STARS
Don Giovanni, Chipping Norton Theatre, and touring
Chipping Norton Theatre's production of Don Giovanni is a considerable achievement. Scaling down an opera of this magnitude to fit small venues is no easy task, but director Caroline Sharman and her design team have managed to make it seem as though the…
Review: Kreutzer Sonata @ Chipping Norton Theatre
Tolstoy wrote his short novel The Kreutzer Sonata at a time of great personal upheaval.
Killing Hitler: Chipping Norton Theatre
Adam von Trott was a principal figure in Count Claus von Stauffenberg’s bomb plot of 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler. He paid a terrible price for its failure: after days of torture by the Gestapo, he was executed by hanging from a meat hook,…
Jessica Leighton: Chipping Norton Theatre
Jessica Leighton’s work is an intense exploration of the landscapes that fascinate her. She describes it as about shapes and patterns, and she intends each piece to work close up and from a distance, which indeed is the case.
Chris Addison: Chipping Norton Theatre
There have got to be very few comedians who utter the sentence “You know, it really is a glorious time to be alive” in the first few minutes of their act. And even fewer still who manage to get away without sounding like either a nauseating…
Chris Addison previewed: Chipping Norton Theatre
Perhaps the only beneficiary from the scandal that followed the leaking of MPs’ expenses, aside from the Daily Telegraph, has been the viewing figures for Armando Ianucci’s political comedy The Thick of It.
Twelfth Night, Chipping Norton Theatre
After its excellent 2007 production of Arthur Miller's The American Clock, the Oxford School of Drama returned to Chipping Norton Theatre last week with a far more familiar offering from the repertoire. Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, with its gallery of…
The American Clock: Chipping Norton Theatre
Arthur Miller's gloomy study of the Great Depression, The American Clock, was one of the playwright's many 'misses' that followed his string of early 'hits'. First seen in 1980, and repeatedly revised during the rest of its creator's long life, the play…
