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[25 Feb 2010 | 3 Comments | ]
Little Shop of Horrors (6th week)

Pembroke College
Wednesday 24th – Saturday 27th February; 2.30pm, 7.30pm
“with a heavy heart, I must step up to the reviewer’s plate and write some nasty, nasty things. The collapsible set is probably a good place to start.” Rory Fazan
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[23 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]
Pride and Prejudice (6th week)

Oxford Playhouse
Monday 22nd – Saturday 27th February; 2.30pm, 7.30pm
“The speed of the performance made it funny, but it meant it edged dangerously close to farce. In the first two acts, characters had the irritating habit of bumping into each other, as if this was a sound and unmistakeable way of expressing sexual attraction.” Eluned Gramich
“The production on the whole is marked by its comedy, the screenplay adapter, Simon Reade, utilizing often Wilde-esque syntax and situational irony to turn the underlying humor of Austen’s masterpiece into laugh-out-loud hilarity.” Jessica Fast …

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[23 Feb 2010 | 3 Comments | ]
The Rat Pack (6th week)

New Theatre
Monday 22nd – Saturday 27th February; 7.30pm, 5pm, 8.30pm, 4pm
“Though raucous laughter never threatened, the audience were regularly tempted into a chortle at classic lines such as “Right now I’m on a whisky diet. Last week I lost four days”.” Richard Beinart

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[19 Nov 2009 | 2 Comments | ]
West Side Story (6th week)

Oxford Playhouse, Wednesday 18th November – Saturday 21st November, 7.30p.m.
“it is wonderfully impressive, and without doubt blows any other student Playhouse show I’ve seen out of the water.” Review by Matt Maltby
Energy spilled out of the orchestra pit and surged onto the stage ensuring that from beginning to end we were hooked.” Review by Robert Holtom

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[19 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]

St Johns College Auditorium, Wednesday 18th November – Saturday 21st November, 8p.m.
“if you give an audience enough screaming, swearing, drugs and sex, with perhaps a fake body part thrown in, you’re bound to achieve some sort of breakthrough.” Review by Annabel James

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[19 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]

Keble O’Reilly Theatre, Wednesday 18th November – Saturday 21st November
“a bold and raw performance which leaves the audience glued to their seats, intrigued, impressed and engrossed.” Review by Francesca Wade
“Torso after torso of taut contorting and undulating sinew and muscle are mesmerising.” Review by Eidin Crowdy

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[18 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]

Burton Taylor, Tuesday 17th November – Saturday 21st November, 9.30p.m.
“Bashful attempt at bravado which falls flat: Although the show begins well with a neatly crafted and potentially gruesome sequence involving staple guns, by the closing scene some forty minutes later the tension so perfectly generated at the start has totally dissipated.” Review by Joss Waller
“Interspersed with the mind tricks were choreographed physical tricks such as the hammering of a nail into his nose (I’m not kidding). For me, these were slightly unnecessary and appeared to be out of context …