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 …

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 …

“On paper, everything ticked the box in this production, yet I rarely forgot the actors were working from a script or following stage directions. I never became emotionally involved with the characters or action, and the harrowing plot line, with three hostages stuck in a Lebanon prison, made this all the more disappointing.” Imogen Sarre

“David Ralf was a hammy joy as both the bumbling, voluble logician and the brash, chippy Northern rhinosceptic Botard, who later converts in an attempt to “move with the times.” Ed Cripps
“Ionesco’s Rhinoceros is absurdist theatre at its most absurd. We, the audience, are helpless witnesses of the demise of a small French community as its members transform one-by-one into rampaging, snorting, multi-horned, rhinoceroses.” Liv Edwards

Tuesday 26th – Saturday 30th January; 7.30pm
Burton Taylor
“Directors Richard O’Brien and Robert Williams steer…the audience fearlessly through a play which systematically refuses to explain itself, and they never leave its central theme in any doubt.” David Ralf
“Highly reminiscent of George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984, we are told in urgent and hushed voices how animals and countries alike have become embroiled in a world of rapidly switching alliances.” Camilla Turner