Burton Taylor
Tuesday 8th – Saturday 12th June; 9.30pm
“The portrayals of the four lovers are…lacking in menace. Their characters are profoundly exaggerated to extenuate the comic side to the play which, though discordant with the sinister intentions, is spectacularly successful.” Matt Harper and Sarah McCready
“The Dream does have an unconventional edge – not least that the forest is set as a rubbish dump – but needs to have teased out those edges rather more to capture the sinister mood it so sorely seeks.” Hannah Daly
Burton Taylor
Tuesday 8th – Saturday 12th June; 7.30pm
“Although not without flaws Network does everything it seeks to achieve, with many moments of comedy not holding back a plot which touches on a number of prominent issues.” Jonathan Edwards
“is Network a dystopia? Is it a romance? Is it a comedy? Although this is an impressive piece of new writing, Network raises a lot of questions which it never quite gets around to answering – presumably sidetracked by a quiz or two on Facebook.” Simon Thomas
Performance times: Tuesday 15th – Saturday 19th June (8th week), 7.30pm at the Frewin Undercroft, St Michael’s Street (Just after the gate into the Union gardens on the left, walking towards St Peter’s)
Tickets: £7.50 / £6 concessions from http://www.frogface.org.uk/
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Synopsis: In his ‘The Maids’ Jean Genet plays elaborately between the barriers of illusion and reality. The play is based on a real event. In the French town of Le Mans in 1933 a local solicitor, concerned by the failure of his wife and daughter to join him at a relative’s house for …
Event details: Friday 11th June (7th week), 7.30 – 9pm in the Old Dining Hall, Saint Edmund Hall
This Friday the playwright (and SEH alumni) Tamsin Oglesby will be visiting St Edmund Hall to give a short talk followed by a question and answer session with students.
Her most recent play, ‘Really Old, Like Forty Five’ just finished a very successful run at the National Theatre, London, and she’s doubtless a very interesting person to ask about writing plays and how to be involved in drama after university.
Entry is FREE, and by …
Performance times: Friday 11th and Saturday 12th June, 8pm at the Moser Theatre, Wadham (and 5pm matinee on Saturday)
Tickets: available from http://www.bradyaid.co.uk/index.php
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Bringing together casts from musicals such as West Side Story, Sweeney Todd and Little Shop of Horrors, this production promises to be the musical event of the term. Tom Brady has directed several sell out musicals in Oxford during his time here and worked professionally in London, Philadelphia and at the Edinburgh Fringe. Having been offered one of two sought after places at the Royal …