Reviews by Katerina Kappa
Alexei Volodin, Piano
Katerina Kappa
There is a series of piano concerts at St. John the Evangelist Church on Iffley Road which is being taken, possibly, slightly for granted. For if you read the résumés of the musicians, they are ...
5 years ago
Alexei Volodin, Piano
Billionaire Boy
Katerina Kappa
This adaptation by Birmingham stage
company of David Walliams’ novel Billionaire Boy is definitely a winner amongst
devotees, and possibly, even the great man himself, according to the programme. ...
5 years ago
Billionaire Boy
Macbeth
Katerina Kappa
Theatre productions of Macbeth often run alongside A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as both plays draw on a common theme of the supernatural in a complementary way: mischievous fairies and magical ...
5 years ago
Macbeth
The Show - An Interactive Rap Musical
Katerina Kappa
If, like me, you avoid any theatrical performances that have any subtext with the words ‘interactive’ or ‘audience participation’ DO NOT FEAR. The poster outside Pegasus mentions those fatal ...
6 years ago
The Show - An Interactive Rap Musical
Comedy 4 Kids
Katerina Kappa
Comedy Club 4kids is billed as 'the best comedians on the UK circuit doing what they do best…but without the rude bits!' As is to be expected of kids comedy, there were bottom jokes and poo jokes. ...
6 years ago
Comedy 4 Kids
Jon Boden and the Remnant Strings
Katerina Kappa
Having found our way to our seat in the upper gallery of the North Wall Arts Centre in Summertown, thanks to the volunteer staff, we waited for the former Bellowhead frontman and his “Genre ...
6 years ago
Jon Boden and the Remnant Strings
All Is True [12A]
Katerina Kappa
This film promises much, but disappoints. It begins on the banks of the Thames, with the Globe in flames and Shakespeare turning his back on the embers of his theatre and his career, and galloping ...
6 years ago
All Is True [12A]
Colette [15]
Katerina Kappa
For an actress known for one-dimensional acting, Keira Knightley makes a fine stab at being the feminist LGBT icon Colette, and co-star Dominic West is great as Willy, her rakish husband. Knightley ...
6 years ago
Colette [15]
A Pure Woman
Katerina Kappa
Getting to Chipping Norton for this Oxford reviewer was a bit of a headache on a Thursday evening, but there can’t be a theatre - outside of Dorset - better placed for a play about the novelist ...
6 years ago
A Pure Woman
Folk in Oxford: Kadia
Katerina Kappa
I went to see Kadia this Saturday at Holywell
music rooms. Kadia is composed of three good, decent blokes from Bournemouth. They are,
by day, a primary school teacher (Lee), an accountant (Chris) ...
7 years ago
Folk in Oxford: Kadia
Folk Weekend Oxford 2018
Katerina Kappa
'If you hear a tinkle on the knee, a Morris dancer it must be,' this is not a Chaucerian cant, or even a line from a Thomas Hardy novel, but something I just made up to accompany the cover photo of ...
7 years ago
Folk Weekend Oxford 2018
John Hegley: All Hail the Snail
Katerina Kappa
Much like a lot of quintessentially English things, it turns out that John Hegley is, at least in part, French.
He takes us on a mini tour of his family through his art work - some surreal, some ...
7 years ago
John Hegley: All Hail the Snail
Holywell Music and Folk presents: Iona Fyfe Trio
Katerina Kappa
"Too many Bothy Ballads can get gloomy," Iona Fyfe sympathetically tells the audience, before going ‘uptempo’. She and her band, the fiddler Charlie and guitarist Aidan, knock out a good few ...
7 years ago
Holywell Music and Folk presents: Iona Fyfe Trio
A Christmas Carol
Katerina Kappa
This local theatre company’s A Christmas Carol can actually get you in the mood for what has become the season of tat and wanton spending. Yes, it is a faithful rendition of Dickens’ classic ...
7 years ago
A Christmas Carol
Room On The Broom
Katerina Kappa
The unfortunate witch in Room on the Broom has a broken broomstick. Broken, because of the demands that friendship plays on her (and the broom). But in the end, her friends (a cat, a bird and a frog ...
8 years ago
Room On The Broom
The BFG
Katerina Kappa
Oxford's Story Museum is, it has to be said, somewhat haphazard. Crawlers battle it out amongst pre-teens and the in-betweens for space near the front. What any of the surrounding rooms or themes are ...
8 years ago
The BFG
Theories of potential and the creation of inequality in education
Katerina Kappa
Professor Danny Dorling is a geographer who has written much about inequality and the distribution of wealth. He starts his lecture on some interesting points about genetics - he shares few ...
9 years ago
Theories of potential and the creation of inequality in education
Richard Parker
Katerina Kappa
Travel disaster always makes unsettling viewing. Richard Parker is so nearly in this category, yet the underlying themes around fate and free will override the potential for nervousness that this ...
10 years ago
Richard Parker
The Canterbury Tales
Katerina Kappa
This play, excellently adapted by Mike Poulton, who was recently behind Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies at the RSC, is being performed by Oxford Theatre Guild at Oxford Castle this week.
For ...
11 years ago
The Canterbury Tales
Angel Song
Katerina Kappa
‘May the choirs of angels lead you into paradise’ says the subtitle to this performance by Oxford City Choir (directed by Duncan Aspden). A good summation - and excellent venue, ...
11 years ago
Angel Song
FT Weekend: Oxford Literary Festival
Katerina Kappa
Don’t expect eruditeness from a Sicilian aristocrat, that’s the message of the evening. However, Tomasi di Lampedusa’s vignettes were sometimes amusing, sometimes waffle, sometimes ...
11 years ago
FT Weekend: Oxford Literary Festival
