“My one and a half hours in the theatre had much in common with a successful first date: after the awkward introductions and occasional flat one-liners, came an intimate yet compelling acquaintanceship, followed swiftly by numerous outbursts of hysteria, and all ending with me wanting more.” Robert Holtom
“the cast are a talented, well-balanced comedy group who feed off each other’s energy superbly” Fabienne Cheung

New Theatre
Thursday 11th – 13th February
“In the age of youtube and the on demand gobbets of humour it provides, a stage production that force feeds wisecracks seems both aged, forced and at times boring.” Roland McFall
“the mixture of black humour and cheeky scheming always seemed to come from a desire to make wry jokes hilarious, and not from the ironic resignation to prison life that Fletcher’s character is born out of” David Ralf

“The slightly disquieting scene in which Dame Hannah woos her dead lover (a reanimated Sir Roderic Murgatroyd, played by Michael Peyton Jones) with a song about a flower and an oak tree proved to be the most moving and impressive of the night: at the end of it I felt that I could be a little in love with the staunch Dame too.” Kirstin Hollingsworth

Burton Taylor
Tuesday 9th – Saturday 13th; 7.30pm
“this absolutely wonderful production of “Our Country’s Good” might very well make you cry. Or give you a lump in the throat. At the very least it should give you chills and make you sit very still on your seat and pay attention.” Madeline Wright
“Our Country’s Good attempts to cover a range of themes: relationships, penal and justice systems, but perhaps most crucially it tries very hard to convince the audience about the power of theatre. If this last one sounds a little …

Oxford Playhouse
Monday 8th – Saturday 13th February
“characters attempted to entertain Winnie with their jokes and life stories, however, like Winnie, I quickly lost interest.” Nick Dalbey
“Alan Ayckborn has written more plays than his years. And at seventy years old, My Wonderful Day, his 73rdfull length play, has the intense quality of an ancient malt, or an aged Christmas cake. It is the most delicious of plays, but it is not new to the literary palette.” Martin Parlett