Reviews by Daniel Hart
Out Of This World
Daniel Hart
The multimedia extravaganza that is
Out Of This World, directed by Mark Murphy, has come to the Oxford Playhouse. Combining choreography, aerial movement, staged dialogue, immersive audio, music ...
8 years ago
Out Of This World
Mark Steel, Shappi Khorsandi & Joel Dommett
Daniel Hart
Even in the well-heeled cloisters of Magdalen College School, the Brexit aftershock hung in the air. As three comedians took to the stage to deliver an enjoyable and often spectacularly relevant ...
8 years ago
Mark Steel, Shappi Khorsandi & Joel Dommett
Colin and Katya
Daniel Hart
How do you feel the play deals with issues of 'exploitation', and what counteracts that? Exploitation implies victimhood only on one side and I do not believe that this is entirely the case with ...
9 years ago
Colin and Katya
Colin and Katya
Daniel Hart
As with its 'real-life' counterpart, online dating goes on for better or worse, while the boundaries between online and offline become increasingly blurred in this weird, brave new world. The ...
9 years ago
Colin and Katya
The Sixteen: The Choral Pilgrimage 2016
Daniel Hart
The Sixteen come to Christ Church Cathedral early in their 16
th annual 'Choral Pilgrimage' tour which sees them perform in many of the UK's most beautiful venues – churches, abbeys and ...
9 years ago
The Sixteen: The Choral Pilgrimage 2016
Hector [15]
Daniel Hart
I went to see Hector at Cowley Road's wonderfully intimate Ultimate Picture Palace, which preceded a fascinating Q&A with first-time director Jake Gavin (an established photographer who also ...
9 years ago
Hector [15]
East Is East
Daniel Hart
Set in Salford in 1971, East is East was premiered in 1996 – a period that saw British Asians prominently define themselves on the cultural map, with Nitin Sawhney, Hanif Kureishi, Talvin Singh and ...
9 years ago
East Is East
Richard Herring: Lord Of The Dance Settee
Daniel Hart
Like his erstwhile comedy partner Stewart Lee, Richard Herring delights in confronting the supposed prejudices of his audience and confounding expectations. He is also hilariously funny and for me, a ...
10 years ago
Richard Herring: Lord Of The Dance Settee
Live Stand-Up Comedy at the Glee Club
Daniel Hart
Greg Burns, Jim Park, Liam Williams, Gary Delaney - Glee Club. Saturday night at the Glee Club can be a patchy and chaotic experience and this one was no exception. As one comedian noted, there was a ...
10 years ago
Live Stand-Up Comedy at the Glee Club
Oxford Philomusica plays Bruch, Dvořák, Paganini
Daniel Hart
I hadn’t seen a full orchestra in the Sheldonian before, so filing in past the harp, kettle drums and the like, I was struck by how little the audience seemed to outnumber the performers (although ...
10 years ago
Oxford Philomusica plays Bruch, Dvořák, Paganini
The Rite of Spring & Petrushka
Daniel Hart
A solitary, suited figure appears on stage, singing a poetic Irish lament. As a prelude to the eerie bassoon notes of the familiar first movement, this serves as a statement of intent for Michael ...
11 years ago
The Rite of Spring & Petrushka
John Grant, Asgeir Trausti, Futur Primitif
Daniel Hart
The evening opens with an impressive set from 20-year old Icelandic singer Ásgeir Trausti, who performs gentle acoustic songs redolent of José González. Iceland remains a common ...
12 years ago
John Grant, Asgeir Trausti, Futur Primitif
