Oxford Playhouse
Friday 19th February; 5pm
“David Wood’s talk was more of a lecture focused on sharing accumulated knowledge on adapting children’s books to plays than it was about Dahl’s ‘utterly inventive world’.” Laurel Steinfield
“He stated difficulties of working with theatre as a medium and incorporating elements of children’s literature into his work. He engaged his young audience, much like an educator rather than a lecturer would.” Judyta Frodyma

“I don’t think I have enjoyed a show in Oxford quite as much as I did this one. Nevertheless, I cannot overlook the fact that this was unpolished in the extreme.” Rory Fazan
“Cassie Barraclough… was the real showstopper. Her scenes pulled this production up by its shoestrings.” Kimberley Lord

Oxford Playhouse
Wednesday 17th – Saturday 20th February; 2.30pm or 7.30pm
“The production is spot on, the direction, excellent. It is a classic piece, with all the finery you’d expect from an eccentric, possibly esoteric, Oxford-based play.” Sam Baker
“Esoteric? Perhaps. Escapism? Not really. An Oxford play in Oxford may sound bona fide, but as demonstrated tonight, is perhaps experientially flawed.” Martin Parlett

OFS Studio
Tuesday 16th – Saturday 20th February; 7.30pm
“I laughed, I giggled, I wished, and I wondered as I watched James and the Giant Peach at the OFS theatre.” Garrett Mostowski

Burton Taylor
Tuesday 16th  - Saturday 20th Februrary; 9.30pm
“This is a wonderfully directed, cleverly written play that finds the perfect balance between silliness and sophistication.” Liv Edwards
“I knew I was going to be biased going to see The Aphorist but I wasn’t prepared for the nerves, the heart-stopping moments when the rhythm of a scene changed and I wondered if they would forget a line,” Olivia Reilly
The Aphorist is a piece of New Writing so Olivia Reilly has been going to rehearsals, interviewing writer and director Fred Sugarman-Warner and producer …

Burton Taylor
Tuesday 16th – Saturday 20th February; 7.30pm
“it becomes clear that although they do not articulate it, the other academics are all far more interested in faculty intrigues, books and anagrams than they in the world beyond their narrow, bourgeois existence.” Camilla Turner
“It was, as promised, certainly funny; the humour was at times subtle and at times more blatant, but it gave the play the certain mischievous undercurrent that delighted and surprised in equal measure.” Tom Pope

At the Burton Taylor in 5th week, The Aphorist, written and directed by Fred Sugarman-Warner, is going to be performed. Olivia Reilly has been going to rehearsals, interviewing Fred and Joe Charlton (Producer), and will be one of the reviewers at its first night performance on Tuesday. This process will mirror the way that the OTR is going to be involved with the New Writers Festival in 7th week.
Interview with Fred and Joe: “When you let it out of your control and give it to the actors they bring things to it …