Reviews by Marie The Minx
Beauty and the Beast
Marie The Minx
I had high expectations for this pantomime version of Beauty and the Beast, having previously enjoyed excellent panto productions at the Oxford Playhouse and also being a fan of the stage show, which ...
10 years ago
Beauty and the Beast
3 Legendary Rock'n'Roll Tours
Marie The Minx
Three Steps to Heaven is the second in a trilogy of shows featuring tribute acts to rock and roll stars of the past, recreating their finest moments and giving us the greatest rock and roll gigs that ...
11 years ago
3 Legendary Rock'n'Roll Tours
Cats
Marie The Minx
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 30-year old musical spectacular Cats is currently in its second life, doing the rounds of local theatres after three decades of success in the West End.
I first saw ...
11 years ago
Cats
Ocean Colour Scene
Marie The Minx
From the moment Steve Cradock unleashed the opening riff from '100 Mile High City', the crowd went wild and the scene (‘scuse the pun) was set for a throwback to the 90’s Britpop ...
11 years ago
Ocean Colour Scene
MMG Oxfordshire Battle Of The Bands 2013 Final
Marie The Minx
Oxford’s O2 Academy played host to MMG’s Oxfordshire Battle of the Bands Final, bringing the winners of previous rounds together to battle it out for 2013’s Oxfordshire title. ...
12 years ago
MMG Oxfordshire Battle Of The Bands 2013 Final
Andy Parsons - I've Got A Shed
Marie The Minx
Andy Parsons brought his satirical stand-up comedy show ‘I’ve Got A Shed’ to Oxford Playhouse for one night only, and what a night! The Playhouse was pretty much sold out and the ...
12 years ago
Andy Parsons - I've Got A Shed
Ron Moody
Marie The Minx
A legend in his own lifetime, it was a privilege to be able to attend an audience with the remarkable 89-years-young Ron Moody.
Having enthralled generations with his performance on both stage ...
12 years ago
Ron Moody
Surprises
Marie The Minx
Alan Ayckbourn’s Surprises explores love and life in a futuristic time. Initially we are introduced to Grace and her father Franklin, having a debate over her new boyfriend, whom Franklin ...
12 years ago
Surprises
The Last Bookshop
Marie The Minx
With so many high-street retailers going bust lately, it is refreshing to have a local success story to report. The Last Bookshop has moved its store from St Aldates to New Inn Hall Street (opposite ...
12 years ago
The Last Bookshop
Hardeep Singh Kohli
Marie The Minx
Well-known for his kilt-and-turban combo and Glaswegian-Sikh background, the loveable Hardeep came to entertain Oxford with his Indian Takeaway one-man show.
Engaging from the ...
13 years ago
Hardeep Singh Kohli
The Mole And The Worm
Marie The Minx
Despite being billed as a tragi-comedy, I found this play dark and depressing, despite the first scene of interaction between the two actors being the oddest simulation of oral sex you will ever see. ...
13 years ago
The Mole And The Worm
Happy As Larry
Marie The Minx
This was the UK Premiere of Happy as Larry, a contemporary and thoughtful dance show by award-winning Australian director Shaun Parker. Using the medium of dance, Parker explores the nature of human ...
13 years ago
Happy As Larry
80s Mania
Marie The Minx
It was a brilliant show. Everyone on stage - singers and dancers - were fantastic, and the audience were on their feet for the whole show - the costumes onstage were authentic and there were lots of ...
14 years ago
80s Mania
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides [12A]
Marie The Minx
A very disappointing film, a thin plot too similar to the previous Pirates films. Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz played their parts well but I felt like I had seen it all before. The mermaids brought ...
14 years ago
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides [12A]
Thor [12A]
Marie The Minx
I thought the film was very good. I enjoyed the direction of the film and the plot was easy to follow. Thor was played brilliantly and the chemistry between Thor and Jane was believable. The 3D ...
14 years ago
Thor [12A]
Taking Care of Baby
Marie The Minx
***SPOILERS*** A disturbing tale surrounding the story of Donna, who has been accused of murdering her two babies. Backed up by Dr Millard, a convincing academic who has defined a condition called ...
14 years ago
Taking Care of Baby
Consciousness: Confessions of Romantic Reductionist
Marie The Minx
This year's Charles Simonyi Lecture tackled the massive - and massively popular - topic of the neurobiology of consciousness (what is it, what do we know about it, what are its limits) and ...
14 years ago
Consciousness: Confessions of Romantic Reductionist
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky [15]
Marie The Minx
Despite being unconnected to last year’s production of Coco Before Chanel, this story (directed by Jans Kounen) neatly picks up where that one left off. Coco Chanel (Anna Mouglais) first ...
14 years ago
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky [15]
The World's Wife
Marie The Minx
Oxford Playhouse, Friday 11th June 2010, 5pmAn interesting concept for a show– performer Linda Marlowe acts out adaptations from the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s poems on history’s ...
15 years ago
The World's Wife
Rocky Horror Show
Marie The Minx
‘You better wise up, Janet Weiss. Your apple pie don't taste too nice’ As a Rocky Horror virgin, I didn’t know whether to dress up or not. The age-old quandary, do I dress up for the fancy ...
15 years ago
Rocky Horror Show
The Hour Glass
Marie The Minx
This take on the classic Yeats tale is a concise performance using only the key elements needed to tell the core story – reducing the original 11 cast members to 5 and combining the 3 roles of ...
15 years ago
The Hour Glass
The Beauty Queen Of Leenane
Marie The Minx
‘Me whole world doesn’t revolve around your taste in biscuits’I had high hopes for this play as its writer, Martin McDonagh, wrote the fantastically witty In Bruges, so I was expecting a ...
15 years ago
The Beauty Queen Of Leenane
The Ghost [15]
Marie The Minx
Wow. A top class, totally engaging, spellbinding thriller – go and see it! I was going to start this review with a warning about never going to review a film on an Orange Wednesday as the theatre ...
15 years ago
The Ghost [15]
Oxfringe 2010
Marie The Minx
LOL is a clever, funny one-woman play performed by the excellent Ros Adler. Based on supposed real-life experiences of the perils of internet dating, Adler performs the entire play on-stage, ...
15 years ago
Oxfringe 2010
Oxfringe 2010
Marie The Minx
Funny Women Finalist Rosie Wilby performs this one-woman stand-up show with lots of energy, laughter, cynicism and some very disturbing scientific diagrams….did you know that the average ...
15 years ago
Oxfringe 2010
Oxfringe 2010
Marie The Minx
Rob Bailey delivers an interesting and very entertaining show based around tricks of the mind – he is a psychologist rather than a psychic, and he attempts to show how magic and mind-reading is ...
15 years ago
Oxfringe 2010
Oxfringe 2010
Marie The Minx
First a confession – I have never studied Philosophy, only knowing a bit about pop theories so you will get no pretentious waffle from me pretending to know the meaning of life etc (anyway, someone ...
15 years ago
Oxfringe 2010
Oxfringe 2010
Marie The Minx
You know, I’ve seen some strange plays in my time but I can usually conjure up a decent review of anything, which is the nature of being a reviewer. But I am sitting here with my head in my hands ...
15 years ago
Oxfringe 2010
The Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas
Marie The Minx
This was the opening night of a week-long run of the popular show featuring impressions of crowd-pleasing crooners Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin. Originally a West End show and now ...
15 years ago
The Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas
Never Forget
Marie The Minx
It seems a lot of the audience hadn’t done their homework about this show (me? of course not…) and were expecting a Take That tribute show, thinking it would be about Take That forming, ...
15 years ago
Never Forget
High School Musical 2
Marie The Minx
I have never seen any of the High School Musical films or shows, and am only moderately aware of the franchise via the media. This, presumably, is because I am not the parent of a small child or ...
15 years ago
High School Musical 2
Storm / Pork
Marie The Minx
Storm by Lita Doolan‘I killed him with a fucking fried breakfast’This play features four characters who have each lost a loved one on an ill-fated Air France flight which has disappeared en route ...
15 years ago
Storm / Pork
Broken Embraces [15]
Marie The Minx
Broken Embraces is the latest offering from director and screenplay writer Pedro Almodovar – it is a seductive tale of love and loss, with our hero being a middle-aged blind writer called Harry ...
15 years ago
Broken Embraces [15]
Jake & Elwood - The Best Blues Brothers Show in the World Ever!
Marie The Minx
I was intending to be a tough nut to crack tonight, as despite a passionate love of soul music I have never particularly enjoyed a Blues Brothers show, always finding them predictable, tacky and ...
15 years ago
Jake & Elwood - The Best Blues Brothers Show in the World Ever!
A Fistful Of Mondays
Marie The Minx
A Fistful of Mondays is very well scripted and choreographed with an excellent choice of casting, in particular Barry the Barman and Tom Jones the karaoke singer (no, not that one). The ...
15 years ago
A Fistful Of Mondays
Legacy
Marie The Minx
This powerful performance tells the life story of Dorothy Whitney Elmhirst, an amazing woman whose life was full of different strands, each of which could be worthy of a full-length play – orphaned ...
16 years ago
Legacy
Rudo & Cursi [15]
Marie The Minx
Rudo and Cursi is the tale of two Mexican brothers – Beto (aka Rudo), who has dreams of becoming a professional footballer, and Tato (aka Cursi), his younger brother who wants to pursue stardom as ...
16 years ago
Rudo & Cursi [15]
Professor Richard Holmes
Marie The Minx
An amiable speaker, Prof Richard Holmes captivated his audience with a passionate and competent talk about the Duke of Marlborough, ‘Britain’s Greatest General’ who led Britain to great success ...
16 years ago
Professor Richard Holmes
A Fistful Of Mondays
Marie The Minx
A Fistful of Mondays is the new show written by the talented Joe Graham, produced by Balancing Act – following on from their acclaimed collaboration Dancing to the Sound of Crunching Snails at ...
16 years ago
A Fistful Of Mondays
Three More Sleepless Nights
Marie The Minx
Three More Sleepless Nights is a short play by Caryl Churchill, which is structured around two couples. Each couple shares the common bond of insecurity, which manifests itself in different ways in ...
16 years ago
Three More Sleepless Nights
Out of the Blue
Marie The Minx
I was invited along to a preview by the Oxford acapella sensations Out of the Blue in advance of their show at the New Theatre next week, and boy was I in for a treat! I got a private acapella ...
16 years ago
Out of the Blue
As The Mother of a Brown Boy...
Marie The Minx
As the mother of a brown boy, I had other plans tonight but I felt compelled – perhaps duty bound – to see this play when I had the chance. I am glad I listened to my gut feeling. The play – a ...
16 years ago
As The Mother of a Brown Boy...
Fighting [15]
Marie The Minx
This is the second film directed and co-written by New York native Dito Montiel and tells the formulaic tale of a talented fighter discovered by a manager with an eye on the money who propels him ...
16 years ago
Fighting [15]
W B Yeats At Garsington
Marie The Minx
This show is a celebration of the works and life of the poet WB Yeats, who spent a great deal of time visiting his friends Phillip Morrell and his wife Lady Ottoline in Garsington, hanging out with ...
16 years ago
W B Yeats At Garsington
Green Onions: The UK Blues Brothers
Marie The Minx
This was as much a place review as a show review for me as it was the first time I’d been to the Regal, so this review briefly covers all bases. The place. First impressions: it was very cold (air ...
16 years ago
Green Onions: The UK Blues Brothers
Sing-A-Long-A ABBA
Marie The Minx
Magic moments bag – check. Audience filled with a mixture of students and people who remembered Abba the first time around – check. A suitable smattering of fab 70s costumes – check. So, on ...
16 years ago
Sing-A-Long-A ABBA
Let's Hang On
Marie The Minx
This lively show featured a four-piece tribute act to Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, with tunes spanning their career from the 1950s to today. I had really only gone as a treat to my dad so was ...
16 years ago
Let's Hang On
Puppetry of the Penis
Marie The Minx
Ok, I have spent ages trying to think how best to describe this show. If you do a web search, you will no doubt find some pretentious arty-farty reviews about contemporary art and reclaiming the ...
16 years ago
Puppetry of the Penis
Topless Mum
Marie The Minx
Expecting a kind of laugh-out-loud satire on the media industry and something to do with a media scandal featuring a soldier returning from Afghanistan, I was not disappointed, although the play was ...
16 years ago
Topless Mum
Possessed
Marie The Minx
Possessed was billed as a ‘workshop performance play’, so I was unsure what to expect – would the Playhouse seating have been transformed so that we all sat around in a circle and ...
17 years ago
Possessed
An Evening with Blowers
Marie The Minx
Sauntering on to the stage in a cream dinner jacket and slippers, Blowers acknowledges the generous applause from an audience who have been appreciating his Test Match Commentary for a decent segment ...
17 years ago
An Evening with Blowers
Paul Potts
Marie The Minx
Ok. I have to be honest. I don't like reality TV shows, and classical music ain't really my thing. So I went along to this gig slightly dreading it, but having accepted I took my professionalism and ...
17 years ago
Paul Potts
The Free Beer Show - 2007 Season
Marie The Minx
Sully O’Sullivan, Mon 12th November 2007
This was our first visit to The Free Beer Show and we weren’t sure what to expect – having read last week’s review of it being sparsely attended, we ...
17 years ago
The Free Beer Show - 2007 Season
Rabbit
Marie The Minx
This brilliantly witty, fast-flowing play portraying the interactions in a group of friends celebrating a 29th birthday was written by Nina Raine and directed flawlessly by Chloe Masterton. ...
17 years ago
Rabbit
Sylvia Plath Gala Evening
Marie The Minx
This symposium of Sylvia Plath’s life and work was held as part of what would have been her 75th birthday celebrations. Being somewhat of a Plath novice, I found the start of the show difficult and ...
17 years ago
Sylvia Plath Gala Evening
Grand Union Orchestra
Marie The Minx
Talk about a game of two halves! The Grand Union Orchestra’s ‘Can’t Chain Up Me Mind’ show is a commemoration of the Atlantic slave trade and the resulting evolution of different musical ...
17 years ago
Grand Union Orchestra
The Witches Of Eastwick
Marie The Minx
This stage version of the Witches of Eastwick is the first play to be performed at the New Theatre by Oxford Brookes Students Union (OBSU) Fortune Players – this is the first time they’ve ever ...
18 years ago
The Witches Of Eastwick
Dancin' Oxford Festival 2007
Marie The Minx
I attended the Press Launch for the Dancin’ Oxford Dance Festival, to be held in Feb/March 2007. We were treated to 3 very different dance displays: flamenco, breakdancing and independent dancing. ...
18 years ago
Dancin' Oxford Festival 2007
Twaddle, Babble, Jabber and Pap
Marie The Minx
This was my first visit to the Pegasus Theatre, and I was really impressed with the vibrant atmosphere amongst the staff, the audience, and especially the cast. This play was acted solely by the ...
19 years ago
Twaddle, Babble, Jabber and Pap
Canting And Canapes
Marie The Minx
Canting and Canapés centres around a 10-year reunion between old friends as their old University student paper changes its name - tellingly - from Life etc to Youth.
With a cast of four - a ...
19 years ago
Canting And Canapes
Bone by John Donnelly
Marie The Minx
This play will demand your full attention to follow three separate stories, but it is well worth the emotional ride. At first the pace and fragmentation made me wonder if I would keep up with all ...
19 years ago
Bone by John Donnelly
Trainspotting
Marie The Minx
Wow. This play is absolutely spellbinding. I had only seen the film, not read the book, so I was expecting a grittier, real, de-commercialised version of the film – and I was not disappointed. ...
19 years ago
Trainspotting
Macbeth (Tomahawk Productions)
Marie The Minx
Before we go on, I must confess to not being a Shakespeare buff. In fact I have not seen a Shakespeare play since I was at school, which was…ooh a good few years ago now, and I never paid it much ...
19 years ago
Macbeth (Tomahawk Productions)
Merlin's Secret
Marie The Minx
The play opened with a bang (and boy did I jump!), and as Merlin began the proceedings, the beauty of this small play in the cosy venue of the Old Fire Station unfolded. The character of Merlin, ...
19 years ago
Merlin's Secret
Tootsies
Marie The Minx
I visited Tootsies by chance, while visiting the new Castle Complex on a lazy Sunday afternoon - we almost didn't choose it as I suspected it might just be a big tacky burger bar - how wrong I was! ...
19 years ago
Tootsies
