Alan Bennett’s The Habit Of Art has returned to its meta-spiritual home this week, arriving at the Oxford Playhouse on Monday night to amuse and entertain its erudite
“I’m the seagull. No, that’s not it. I’m an actress” our ‘Nina’ informs the audience in a stuttering performance. She then turns away, grabs the back of the
Oxford’s ten-day fringe fest, Offbeat, launches this Friday with a full programme of the anarchic, comic and oddball. Offbeat, back for a second year, takes place from at
Poetry, as a genre, seems to have fallen completely out of fashion. The role of Poet Laureate today has been so diminished as to be almost forgotten. Can
The hardest thing for a first-time playwright is to come up with an original idea, thought and sentence. So Richard Bean put pen to paper and wrote about
Wartime creates extraordinary circumstances and calls for exceptional behaviour. Human sacrifice, in terms of valour, heroism, love and fortitude, is pushed to the limit. Terence Rattigan, who served
