[10 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Three Sisters (8th week)

Oxford Playhouse

Tuesday 9th March-Saturday 13th March, 7.30p.m.

“the very fact that the audience feels guilty, voyeuristic, intrusive, is a testament to the powerful staging.” Pooja Bharat

“The whole cast oozed quality but the highlight performance of the play was Romola Garai’s portrayal of the cantankerous and irritable middle sister Masha Prozorov, who injected moments of humour into the play.” Catherine Owen

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[10 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
The Oxfordshire Gang Show (8th week)

New Theatre
Tuesday 9th – Friday 12th March; 7.15pm & Saturday 13th March 2pm and 8pm
“Highlights of the show most notably included a dramatic kick-back to the Seventies, with an impressive rendition of ‘Car Wash’ opening the set and culminating in a spectacular display of costumes, dance, and lighting effects, not to mention some stellar soloists.” Jennifer Kratz
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[10 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Villainy! (8th week)

Moser Theatre, Wadham
Tuesday 9th March – Saturday 13th March, 7.30p.m.
“if there are any people out there who wouldn’t mind being ‘lightly entertained’ for an hour and forty minutes, this comedy certainly deserves its crowds.” Abhishek Bhattacharyya

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[10 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Three Sisters (8th week)

Oxford Playhouse
Tuesday 9th March-Saturday 13th March, 7.30p.m.
“the very fact that the audience feels guilty, voyeuristic, intrusive, is a testament to the powerful staging.” Pooja Bharat
“The whole cast oozed quality but the highlight performance of the play was Romola Garai’s portrayal of the cantankerous and irritable middle sister Masha Prozorov, who injected moments of humour into the play.” Catherine Owen

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[10 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Knives in Hens (8th week)

Burton Taylor : Tuesday 9th -Saturday 13th March; 7.30pm
“I couldn’t help feeling that many of the lines were delivered in a laboured and over-stressed way, particularly in the case of the Miller (Griffith Rees), who at times inexplicably resembled a pantomime villain and not the supposedly educated and intelligent man he was intended to be.” Madeline Wright
“Griffith Rees, however, is excellent as the enlightened outcast, the village miller. At first an insidious social pariah, Rees’ performance subtly develops the different facets of his character, as a man possessed of compassion …

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[8 Mar 2010 | One Comment | ]
The Duchess of Malfi (8th week)

Teddy Hall’s Old Dining Hall
Sunday 7th March 2pm, 7.30pm, Monday 8th and Wednesday 9th March, 7.30pm
“The most spectacular performance was undoubtedly that of the Duchess herself, played Hannah Daly. This tricky and exhausting role – one of the most interesting female roles of this period of theatrical history – needs a powerful and convincing stage presence which Daly fully supplied.” Katie Newman and Katy Parkes