Saturday 21st March 2026

Theatre

‘Comedy is very deceptive’: Seán Carey on ‘Operation Mincemeat’

As a history student, you occasionally come across stories so strange they feel almost fictional. Operation Mincemeat is one of them.

Seeped in nostalgia: ‘Things I Know To Be True’ reviewed

Lighthouse Productions' 'Things I Know to Be True' had high expectations to meet. Put frankly, they nailed it.

Let’s go to the movies: Fennec Fox Productions’ ‘The Flick’

After their staging of Company at the Oxford Playhouse earlier this term, Fennec Fox Productions are set to return next week with a run of The Flick (2013) at the Burton Taylor Studio.

A deeply Singaporean play: In conversation with ‘Late Company’

OUMSSA Theatre makes their debut with Jordan Tannahill’s Late Company. While the text originated in Canada, OUMSSA Theatre’s take on it is nonetheless entrenched in Singaporean culture.

Medea Review – ‘vengeful, manipulative, and captivating’

More than just a play: 'Medea' reminds us why we go to the theatre

Confusions – Review

More energetic performances were needed to do justice to the subtlety of Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy

Medea – Preview

A production that promises a masterful portrayal of the struggles of integration, womanhood and belonging

Review – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The humour, wit and emotional depth contained within the text are lost to the physicality and slapstick

Underrated Spaces: Jesus College Hall

The Devil is in the detail of this early modern revival

Funny Friends Preview – ‘A roundup of all the best student talent in the country’

Funny friends and frenetic feminisms fuse in this upcoming Playhouse performance

The Lonesome West review – ‘a pressure-cooker of rage and almost-erupting violence’

Practically Peter Production give an impressive rendering of Martin McDonagh's dark comedy

Like A Virgin review – ‘the range of relationship difficulties explored is certainly impressive’

Sam Moore's play about the complexities of relationships finds resonance with audiences of all kinds

Butt Kapinski Review – ‘a masterclass in light-hearted entertainment and audience participation’

Charles Britton is both amazed and horrified by Deanna Fleysher's oddball creation

Review: Brave New World

Cesca Echlin is unsettled by Four Seven Two's evocation of Huxley's World State

Review – “Nell Gwynn”

University College Players capture the extravagance and obscenity of Restoration London in their production of Swale’s 2013 comedy

No Market For Old Men review – ‘an hour of fast-paced sketch comedy’

Krysianna Papadakis finds a lot of nuance in Oxford Revue's latest sketch show

The Writer review – ‘jumping out at you in wild, exciting, provocative vitality’

Hickson tries one formal experiment after another and each time brings a different gender-dynamic under her lens

Review – The House of Bernarda Alba

Ela Portnoy is impressed by this elegant adaptation of the Lorca masterpiece

OCTOPUS – Review

Is OCTOPUS, like the Sex Pistols are now, “just” uncontroversial protest? Or does it strike deeper than that?

Travesties review – ‘a very competent production of a fiendishly complicated play’

Roddy Howland Jackson is charmed by a dynamic, absurdist comedy of historic proportions

How do we stage Shakespeare in the digital age?

Efforts to combine the theatrical and the digital are shaping how we experience Shakespeare in the twenty-first century

Clean Break – Theatre and the Criminal Justice System

Cesca Echlin talks to Clean Break, the theatre charity offering female offenders a means of expression

‘Black Men Walking’ – Review

An exuberant meditation on nature, belonging, and blackness

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