Reviews by David Glass
FT Weekend: Oxford Literary Festival
David Glass
Angus Phillips, director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at Oxford Brookes, chaired a team of publishing great and goods (and a librarian) to ask what was happening to ...
11 years ago
FT Weekend: Oxford Literary Festival
FT Weekend: Oxford Literary Festival
David Glass
In a cosy room at Corpus Christi College, journalist Alex Clark chaired a panel discussion on storytelling, inspired by the launch of the Folio Prize. Agent Andrew Kidd joined her, as founder of the ...
11 years ago
FT Weekend: Oxford Literary Festival
Acis & Galatea
David Glass
In the ornate chapel at St. Peter's College, Opera Lyrica gathered six singers and a small group of chamber musicians to perform Handel's Acis and Galatea; commonly thought of as an opera, ...
11 years ago
Acis & Galatea
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2013
David Glass
An unfortunate start for this talk - both the advertised speakers couldn't make it and were replaced in the preceding week. One, crime writer Anna Blundy, was away for a meeting about a ...
12 years ago
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2013
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2013
David Glass
Meg Rosoff is a Young Adult writer from New York who started writing novels in her forties. She learnt her craft at the coalface of advertising, which taught her to 'think sideways, not be ...
12 years ago
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2013
Tosca
David Glass
Tosca began with a lightweight tone, comedic and farcical. This soon darkened but never to the point of any grittiness. The opera, and the play it was based on, were intended as melodrama, and ...
12 years ago
Tosca
The Maids
David Glass
The first sign that this student production is in good hands is the set. Dressed with a lightness of touch, bound together by webs of cord decorated by flowers and props, it evokes atmosphere and ...
12 years ago
The Maids
Short Stories Aloud
David Glass
Short Stories Aloud at the Old Fire Station presents short stories by published authors, read out by professional actors. Enthusiastically presented by Sarah Franklin and fuelled by complementary and ...
13 years ago
Short Stories Aloud
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2012
David Glass
As you'd expect, the marquee was packed full of people eager to lap up Alain de Botton's latest thoughts, a man who at one point described himself quite seriously as an intellectual. No one ...
13 years ago
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2012
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2012
David Glass
Bruce Hood, with the relaxed fluency that comes from being a professor, took an hour from the days of a sold-out audience to tell us all that there is no 'you' inside our heads. The idea of ...
13 years ago
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2012
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2012
David Glass
Having evaded the HSBC salesman and found their way to Christ Church College, the mostly white, middle-class, middle-aged audience wafted the heat away with their Sunday Times supplements, waiting ...
13 years ago
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2012
Oxford Lieder Festival 2011
David Glass
There's always something, isn't there? The planned pianist went down with a bad case of food poisoning so Roger Vignoles was invited to replace him at very short notice, performing the same day as he ...
13 years ago
Oxford Lieder Festival 2011
Mark Kermode
David Glass
Mark Kermode commandeered the Oxford Playhouse to show us a film and have a bit of a chat. The film in question was The Ninth Configuration, the story of a man sent to an isolated madhouse, written ...
13 years ago
Mark Kermode
The Pirates Of Penzance: Broadway version
David Glass
This is a thoroughly rehearsed and slick show. Vibrant, noisy and chaotic, several people were often on stage at once, nimbly weaving among each other. Credit goes to the choreographer and cast for ...
14 years ago
The Pirates Of Penzance: Broadway version
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2011
David Glass
Karen Armstrong is a TED Prize winner who has forged a post-convent career by studying the world's religions and writing very sensible things about them. Years of exploration have persuaded her that ...
14 years ago
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2011
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2011
David Glass
Acclaimed poets Kate Clanchy and Patience Agbabi and local hero Philip Pullman tackled 'voice', an ephemeral subject that shapeshifts when looked at too closely. Agbabi, reworking The Canterbury ...
14 years ago
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2011
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2010
David Glass
Adam Zamoyski is a fantastic speaker. After a slightly farcical start where he was interrupted after a few words so the steward could give us a tour of the fire exits, he quickly engrossed the ...
15 years ago
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2010
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2010
David Glass
Kate Phiges has written books about the realities of having children and specifically teenagers, and has now turned her hand to uncovering the truth behind marriage and long-term relationships. This ...
15 years ago
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2010
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2010
David Glass
Today I had my first appointment with a call girl. I wasn't alone. Belle de Jour, Dr Brooke Magnanti, bravely faced a packed auditorium of curious onlookers. Perhaps the high attendance results from ...
15 years ago
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2010
Queen of Clubs Cabaret: Oxford's Vintage Variety Night
David Glass
The Queen of Clubs saw off September with a swing-themed night at the Isis Tavern last Friday, offering a cabaret of delights and surprises. One of those surprises was caused by me expecting a ...
15 years ago
Queen of Clubs Cabaret: Oxford's Vintage Variety Night
For You
David Glass
The drama started before the opera tonight, as one of the singers had gone missing moments before the performance. Unfortunately, he was a baritone, not a tenor, depriving me of the opportunity to ...
16 years ago
For You
Twelfth Night
David Glass
“If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction,” says a character in Twelfth Night, and it’s a fair point. This is quintessential Shakespearian comedy, with ...
16 years ago
Twelfth Night
Oxfringe 2009
David Glass
Another woefully small turnout proves some of Oxfringe really is on the fringe. Nevertheless, St Michael at the Northgate provides enough atmosphere to make up for it, and the gap between audience ...
16 years ago
Oxfringe 2009
Oxfringe 2009
David Glass
Comedy Cubed, Oxfringe's comedic equivalent of the Goring 10K, kicked off with the superb Isy Suttie. Recently demonstrating her talent for character acting in Peep Show, Suttie is a warm and ...
16 years ago
Oxfringe 2009
Oxfringe 2009
David Glass
Juliet E McKenna, our host for the evening, is part of a group of writers called 'The Write Fantastic' who aim to uphold fantasy fiction's reputation and generally spread the word to a public who ...
16 years ago
Oxfringe 2009
Hippolytus
David Glass
It is a difficult enough affair being caught between two women; let alone being fought over by goddesses. This is the fate of Hippolytus, the title character of Euripides' play, performed with gusto ...
16 years ago
Hippolytus
