Reviews by Lucille Hook
Imtiaz Dharker
Lucille Hook
For 45 minutes, Imtiaz Dharker, who was described by Carol Ann Duffy as the best contender for Poet Laureate of the World, transformed the North Wall into a storytelling haven that took us around the ...
7 years ago
Imtiaz Dharker
OxPHWOARd: B-Movies
Lucille Hook
B-movies are by their very definition inferior quality affairs made on a shoestring – and part of their appeal is the acknowledgement of these limitations. It’s a very apt theme then for this ...
7 years ago
OxPHWOARd: B-Movies
Octopus
Lucille Hook
"Three women have been called in for assessment. Sara looks kind of Asian, Scheherazade is kind of Middle Eastern, and Sarah is kind of white. But how British are they?" Such is the premise of ...
8 years ago
Octopus
Bed Time Tales
Lucille Hook
Bed Time Tales is the companion to the Oxford Playhouse's new family show Bed Time. Over the course of three nights, six storytellers performed on the same stage to an audience of grown-ups. James ...
9 years ago
Bed Time Tales
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Lucille Hook
Rebecca Crookshank's Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is not to be confused with Tina Fey's recent movie of the same name. Crookshank's one-woman show retells her years in the Royal Air Force, whereas Fey's ...
9 years ago
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Adult Ballet Classes
Lucille Hook
Nestled on the first floor of the Jericho Community Centre is Yuka Kodama Ballet Group’s headquarters, a well lived-into dance studio, with cupboards covered in pictures from previous classes and ...
9 years ago
Adult Ballet Classes
Hammer and Tongue
Lucille Hook
Hammer and Tongue was created by Steve Larkin 12 years ago and has now become entrenched in Oxford’s cultural landscape. It’s poetry, but not as you know it, it’s raucous and democratic, with ...
10 years ago
Hammer and Tongue
Mindspiders
Lucille Hook
Mindspiders, the title to Andrew O’Neill’s latest show, are the random thoughts that get stuck in your head like an earworm (such as ‘We didn't start the fire / It was always burning / Since ...
10 years ago
Mindspiders
Emilie
Lucille Hook
Émilie du Châtelet is a fascinating mathematician and physicist of the eighteenth century whose tale and research deserves to be better known. Émilie: La Marquise du ...
11 years ago
Emilie
The Oh F**k Moment
Lucille Hook
This is a collaboration between poet Hannah Jane Walker and theatre maker Chris Thorpe, set around a long board-meeting table littered with notes scrawled with, no doubt, The Oh F*** Moments of ...
12 years ago
The Oh F**k Moment
Hammer and Tongue
Lucille Hook
Founded in 2003 by Steve Larkin and Jim Thomas, Hammer and Tongue first brought slam poetry to the crowds of Oxford. Since then it has gone on to open chapters in Bristol, Brighton, London, and ...
12 years ago
Hammer and Tongue
Finding Joy
Lucille Hook
The play opens with a focus on daily domestic tasks out of multiple windows: a bewatched-wrist emerges from curtains, a window opens on a hand darning fabric; these peeks at a functioning routine are ...
12 years ago
Finding Joy
