Reviews by Sean Diamond
Blood Runs Thicker
Sean Diamond
A moment that I shall forever cherish came in late 2009, Just before xmas, when I was sent to see a play by the name of The Local by this very website. It was written by a student named Ed Baranski, ...
13 years ago
Blood Runs Thicker
Pedestrian
Sean Diamond
A one-man show, Pedestrian began as a 15 minute sketch at a small venue in Bristol, being one of five works to be commissioned in an Old Vic Theatre competition. It has attracted a fair bit of ...
14 years ago
Pedestrian
Frimston and Rowett
Sean Diamond
Frimston and Rowett come from the esteemed Cambridge Footlights comedy company, the group that spawned the likes of Monty Python and Peter Cook And Dudley Moore. They specialise in character-based ...
14 years ago
Frimston and Rowett
Mogwai +The Twilight Sad, The Regal, Wednesday 23rd February 2011
Sean Diamond
Although not a venue usually associated with live bands - generally being more of a DJ and comedy orientated place - The Regal, with it's Olympian stone pillars, impressively roomy ...
14 years ago
Mogwai +The Twilight Sad, The Regal, Wednesday 23rd February 2011
Barry Potty & His Full Blood Brother Paul In The Ghostly Shadows
Sean Diamond
Certified veterans of children's entertainment The Chuckle Brothers have come to Oxford with a brand new show! Loosely based on the Harry Potter series, the play follows the pair attempting to ...
14 years ago
Barry Potty & His Full Blood Brother Paul In The Ghostly Shadows
Monsters
Sean Diamond
Monsters, by Swedish playwright Niklas Radstrom, concerns the 1993 murder of James Bulger in Liverpool by two ten year old boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, a case which shocked the nation. The ...
14 years ago
Monsters
Fairview Manor
Sean Diamond
A two-man student play, Fairview Manor is a highly unusual production. It concerns a married couple, Mr and Mrs Coward, both played by the two male leads, who discover a killer weed growing beneath ...
14 years ago
Fairview Manor
At First Sight
Sean Diamond
"At First Sight" is the first play by Oxford University graduate Barney Norris. Written in 2008, it's been doing the rounds at theatres throughout the country since, winning the Drama ...
14 years ago
At First Sight
Klaxons
Sean Diamond
Arriving into the stagnant wasteland of 2007 armed with colourful clothes, glowsticks and floppy haircuts, Klaxons seemed like a genuine breath of fresh air. Their craftily cerebral, achingly melodic ...
14 years ago
Klaxons
Little Dark
Sean Diamond
Described on the theatre program as "the most transgressive comedy to ever appear outside of a UKIP election manifesto", the new production from the student comedy group Little Dark sets out to ...
14 years ago
Little Dark
Public Image Ltd at the 02 Academy Oxford
Sean Diamond
As a life-long fan of John Lydon, I nearly wet myself in excitement when I heard he was coming to Oxford! Public Image Limited, or PIL for short, were formed straight after The Sex Pistols became ...
14 years ago
Public Image Ltd at the 02 Academy Oxford
Egyptian Hip Hop + The Dead Jerichos
Sean Diamond
The Dead Jerichos take to the stage, and skillfully enrapture the audience with their artful, angular brand of new wave punk indie. Jaw droppingly tight; This fearsome threesome bring to mind the ...
14 years ago
Egyptian Hip Hop + The Dead Jerichos
Closet Land
Sean Diamond
Closet Land tells the story of a female children's author who is being interrogated by an unspecified government, in an unspecified country, for a seemingly innocent children's book she has penned. ...
14 years ago
Closet Land
Meeting Joe Strummer
Sean Diamond
A big hit at last year's Ediburgh Festival, Meeting Joe Strummer is currently doing a nationwide tour. A two-man play concerning two friends, and their obsession with the late Clash frontman, who ...
15 years ago
Meeting Joe Strummer
The Vagina Monologues
Sean Diamond
This production of The Vagina Monologues forms part of the V-Day campaign to fight sexual violence against women in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with proceeds also going to the Oxford ...
15 years ago
The Vagina Monologues
Little Shop Of Horrors
Sean Diamond
Pembroke College Hall is a highly impressive building. A rich, historical concoction of stone pillars and stained glass windows, it proves to b the perfect setting for a comedy/horror/musical ...
15 years ago
Little Shop Of Horrors
i-witness
Sean Diamond
i-witness concerns a book that changed the lives of its performers. The book in question is "The Rings Of Saturn" by W G Sebald: the story of a man who goes for a walk in East Anglia. Not the most ...
15 years ago
i-witness
The Local
Sean Diamond
The Local focuses on a bunch of misfit characters conversing with each other in a dingy pub called The Dark Horse. It is nearly Christmas. Arthur, an elderly local, drops a bombshell. ...
15 years ago
The Local
The Black Album
Sean Diamond
Hanif Kureishi's acclaimed 1991 novel, concerning a young asian student who finds himself drawn between his education and his religious beliefs, has finally found it's way onto the stage. A sequel, ...
15 years ago
The Black Album
Metamorphosis
Sean Diamond
Franz Kafka's classic short story from 1912, about a young man who awakens one morning only to discover he has been transformed into a giant insect, is given a fresh new lease of life in this student ...
15 years ago
Metamorphosis
Deep Cut
Sean Diamond
Sherman Cymru theatre are fairly well-known for their plays on social injustice; they have previously produced a play about the death of Stephen Lawrence, and are committed to helping bereaved ...
15 years ago
Deep Cut
Bully
Sean Diamond
A big hit at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe festival, Richard Fry's critically acclaimed one-man play finally comes to Oxford. Spoken entirely in verse, Fry tells the tale of a troubled youngster trying ...
15 years ago
Bully
The Scholars + Fixers + Huck & the Handsome Fee + Inventions of Jerry Darge
Sean Diamond
Inventions Of Jerry Darge are a peculiar band. Kind of like Mogwai if they'd been commissioned to write the soundtrack to "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly." Or Snow Patrol if they'd been kidnapped by ...
15 years ago
The Scholars + Fixers + Huck & the Handsome Fee + Inventions of Jerry Darge
The Night Marchers + Winnebago Deal + Gunnbunny
Sean Diamond
There is a wave of anticipation circling the bully tonight. Speedo, AKA John Reis, is in the building! Best known as the frontman in legendary San Diego punk rockers Rocket From The Crypt, his CV ...
16 years ago
The Night Marchers + Winnebago Deal + Gunnbunny
GunnBunny + Vultures + 50 ft Panda
Sean Diamond
The Port Mahon, one of Oxford's most intimate live music venues, tonight played host to three of the city's finest up-and-coming bands.First up are two piece instumental band 50 ft Panda. The ...
17 years ago
GunnBunny + Vultures + 50 ft Panda
