REVIEW BY CHARLOTTE FRASER EDITED BY MYA HELOU As the lights dim in the Union Theatre, the audience buzzes and latecomers scurry in, not wanting to miss the beginning of the show. My pen is in my hand, and I flip it between my fingers anxiously – or, perhaps, excitedly (the line between the two is very blurry). I have seen Othello performed before, professional … Continue reading MUSC’s Othello: Exposing the Immortal Parts of Ourselves
REVIEW BY AKSHITA BENNY EDITED BY OLIVIA DI GRAZIA Go Piss Girl! Or maybe not… ICAC’s Urinetown delivers spectacular performances of a musical theatre favourite. When wandering into the Union Theatre with my musical-loving friend, all we knew about this show, to phrase it crudely, was that it was about pissing. The first thing I said to my friend that night was “go piss girl” … Continue reading Urine For A Treat at ICAC’s Urinetown
REVIEW BY ELLA CALLOW-SUSSEX AND ANNA RYLEY EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT No one knew what was happening. The long-established traditions of theatre etiquette weren’t going to save us now. We furiously looked around the room for any sign of what was to come. But we needn’t have worried. Over the course of eight days, an ensemble of students devised and rehearsed a playful and immersive … Continue reading Surprising Encounters at Union House Theatre’s Theatre Takeover
Reviewed by: Aditi Acharla It’s a book that many of us have heard of, maybe even read; a staple in the coming of age and young adult genres. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time written by Mark Haddon follows Christopher (Peter Chen), a 15-year-old boy who discovers his neighbour’s dog dead in the garden. Implied to be on the autism spectrum, his … Continue reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: Inside the UFO
Reviewed by: Mya Helou Edited by: Lola Sargasso Walking into the theatre, it was clear that this would not be your average Romeo and Juliet production. As the curtains parted for the prologue, 70s style disco-funk pounded and you just couldn’t help but bop along as a somewhat bare but elegantly draped set was revealed. The prologue contained even more surprise, as we learned that … Continue reading Barkly’s Romeo and Juliet Makes Shakespeare Groovy
Reviewed by: Grace Dwyer I’ve had the privilege of seeing two Four Letter Word shows this year – the student-led production company specialising in original musical works has demonstrated an impressive capacity to produce spectacularly grand shows with tight turnaround. Their Semester One production, Cancelled, was fun and flashy, with a large cast of memorable characters – but in A Matter of Family, co-directors and … Continue reading A Matter of Family: This Ambitious Noir Musical Delivers Killer Looks, Songs and Story
Reviewed by: Tom Worsnop Edited by: Hallie Vermeend Queen’s College’s latest production, directed by Gabriel Donaldson and Avi Walsh-Davis, offers a delightfully light-hearted piece of theatre, Thornton Wilder’s 1954 play The Matchmaker. Perhaps better known in the form of its musical adaptation Hello Dolly!, the play is set in 1880s New York, and centres around an old curmudgeon, Horace Vandergelder, who is trying to stop … Continue reading Queen’s College and The Matchmaker: A Compatible Pair
Reviewed by: Lilah Shapiro Edited by: Mya Helou It was just one of those nights, where no-one (not even my most periphery down-for-a-good-time friends) was available to see a college production of Legally Blonde with me. So, there I was, by myself on a Saturday night, ready for three hours of whatever St Hilda’s college had in store for me. As the opening number – … Continue reading What You Want Is St Hilda’s College’s Legally Blonde
Reviewed by: Shixin Wang Edited by: Aditi Acharla It seems like every fairy tale has a woods full of stories. Little Red Riding Hood is seduced by the Big Bad Wolf and deviates from the correct route on the way to her grandmother’s house and enters the woods; Rapunzel lives in a tower deep within the forest; Snow White is driven into the darkness and … Continue reading Into The Woods And Out Of The Woods
Reviewed by: Katya Ewing Starkid, a musical theatre company founded in 2009 by a group of Michigan university students, have long given us hilariously quirky musicals. ICAC, directed by Hannah Crompton, rose to the occasion, exploding with contagious vitality and joy in their side-splitting interpretation of Starkid’s The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals. The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals launches us into the world of … Continue reading The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals: A Musical Takeover Triumph
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