Please, Not the Face
What little laughter Please, Not the Face generates is not even audible over the hubbub of the Wednesday night bar crowd beyond the curtain.
The Master and Margarita
Where Bulgakov’s novel is a sweeping satire concerned with entire classes and communities, the OUDS production focuses closely on the individual characters: a more dramatic approach, but one that reduces the scope of the themes and ideas from a communal to a capital level.
The Night Heron
A character-driven play, powered by the friction that occurs when personalities clash in a confined space.
Sparkleshark
There was just one member of the appropriate age group in the audience — and he was fidgeting by 15 minutes in.
The Oxford Revue is Going Places
If Horne and Corden are the Lidl of sketch comedy, and Fry and Laurie are the food court at Harrods, The Oxford Revue is the Waitrose.
The Oxford Imps
The Oxford Imps are more peppy by far than anyone has any right to be first thing in the afternoon at the Fringe.
Wait Until Dark
Wait Until Dark is a period piece, a good old-fashioned slow-burning mystery thriller, and like the script, BlindSpot’s production benefits from some good old-fashioned English understatement.
Big Mac
Updating Macbeth to modern-day Hollywood is a concept with promise. Celebrity is the new royalty, and defamation in the media is as good as death. Big Mac – developed and presented by pupils of two Oxford schools – delivers on very little of this promise.
Musical battle of sexes
This year, Oxford’s creatives have proven themselves capable and, above all, enthusiastic. Perhaps next year they can go one better, and prove themselves diverse and inclusive as well.
Students go for laughs
Oxford’s student comedy acts prove beyond doubt that they are capable not only of making their peers laugh in the safe environment of the college, but also of making total strangers laugh in the highly competitive environment of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
