Articles tagged with: 7th week
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Exeter College Chapel
Tuesday 2nd – Saturday 6th March; 8.15pm
“The music lent itself to the contrast between the spectacular setting and the debauched subject matter, swapping between a variety of orchestral pieces, occasionally interjected, rather bizarrely, with Lily Allen.” Katherine Newman and Katy Parkes
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Oxford Union Debating Chamber
Friday 27th – Monday 30th November 2009; 7.30pm
“When the props were behaving themselves one could focus on the acting, which was of a particularly high standard.” Robert Holtom
“Sophie Duker and Will McCallum’s adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s story takes place in a strange juncture between childhood memory and urban reality.” Annabel James
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Wadham Chapel
Wednesday 25th-Saturday 28th November; Wed, Thu and Sat at 7pm; Friday at 9pm
“The emotional resonance of the play is intense, and the audience is left feeling disconcerted and pensive as to the reflection of the production’s political savagery and quashing of the individual on the turbulent, current world situation.” Natasha Musto
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Worcester College JCR
Wednesday 25th, Friday 27th and Saturday 28th November, 7.30pm
“It is never easy to like Blanche; William’s allows her to do little to endear herself to us and yet we ought to feel for her. Julia balanced this paradox perfectly, creating and sustaining an emotional rollercoaster for her audience,” Nicola Byrom
‘Between the jerks and jolts that governed his rough masculine nature, Neumark-Jones ingeniously inserted the fluidity of a dancer, delicately fusing one outburst to the next.’ Judith Frodyma
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Keble O’Reilly
Tuesday 24th-Saturday 28th November 7.30pm; Saturday 28th November 2.30pm
“One of the strongest moments is when all these trappings are stripped away, the soldiers step out of their otherwise constant roles, and the light is down to a single torch.” Arabella Currie
“It was only halfway through the performance that I inspected my programme, and saw that Iago was being played by Kate Lewin – yes, Kate. Such a convincing, astonishingly transformative performance is rare to see, let alone for a woman playing a man.” Simon Thomas

