Reviews by Coral
Amelie
Coral
The Watermill Theatre, Mon 15th April 2019
When I heard that Watermill Theatre were adapting Amélie, I
thought ‘Really? But
Amélie is such a
cinematic film. How can a stage
production ...
6 years ago
Amelie
Virginia Woolf's Orlando
Coral
Marvellous Machine have created a masterful adaptation of Orlando: a splendid piece of theatre in its own right, which also stays absolutely true to the spirit of the novel. Lines lifted from the ...
6 years ago
Virginia Woolf's Orlando
A Man For All Seasons
Coral
Caught between the demands of his king and his conscience, Thomas More chooses not to choose. Abingdon Drama Club's production of A Man For All Seasons does the play full justice. It is cast and ...
8 years ago
A Man For All Seasons
Pegasus presents Festival of Shorts
Coral
This was the third Festival of Shorts that Pegasus’ Writing for Performance group has written, and was an impressive showcase of their skills. Ten short plays were performed, each written by one of ...
9 years ago
Pegasus presents Festival of Shorts
Blake Remixed
Coral
William Blake: social justice, religion, racial tolerance and rebellion. In his entirely unique show, hip-hop artist Testament sets out to explore the relevance that Blake’s work and themes can ...
9 years ago
Blake Remixed
Going Viral
Coral
Daniel Bye’s Going Viral is a really unique show that manages to tell a story whilst weaving comedy, social commentary, world events and a lecture on the science of epidemiology all into the mix. ...
9 years ago
Going Viral
Into the Woods
Coral
This year’s RicNic production, Into The Woods by Stephen Sondheim, follows the stories of a handful of fairy-tale characters as their stories intertwine, reach their happy endings in time for the ...
9 years ago
Into the Woods
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
Coral
Following the success of Olivier Award winning The Play That Goes Wrong, Mischief Theatre now brings us Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society’s attempt to carry off a big budget production of JM ...
9 years ago
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
Les Misérables School Edition
Coral
Producing
Les Misérables would be challenging even with a professional company. So MYCO's decision to perform the School Edition with a cast of 53 young actors between 12 and 18 years old might ...
10 years ago
Les Misérables School Edition
The Government Inspector
Coral
Flintlock’s production of The Government Inspector is a four-man show that sticks close to Gogol’s original script but in a unique, highly stylised way. In the play, a town prepares for the visit ...
10 years ago
The Government Inspector
The Honey Man
Coral
The Honey Man is an original play by Tyrone Huggins about a friendship between an ageing Caribbean man and a teenage girl, daughter to the Lord of the Manor. The play explores the generational and ...
10 years ago
The Honey Man
Bouncers
Coral
On arrival at the Burton-Taylor Studio tonight we were accosted on the door by two bouncers, and the flashing coloured lights in the theatre created the atmosphere of a nightclub before the play had ...
10 years ago
Bouncers
Rock of Ages
Coral
Rock of Ages opened tonight in Oxford, on the New Theatre stage, with a band playing buried beneath the crazy and chaotic set, to a large and enthusiastic audience. The songs that played as we took ...
10 years ago
Rock of Ages
Around The World in Eighty Days
Coral
Around the World in 80 Days, with only three actors, in one evening. This was the tall task the ambitious Oxfordshire Theatre Company set themselves in their new show. Based on the Jules Verne ...
10 years ago
Around The World in Eighty Days
Guys and Dolls
Coral
MYCO’s production of Guys and Dolls, performed by a cast of young singers, dancers and actors aged 12-18, is bursting to the seams with fresh talent and ability. The performance, much hyped ...
11 years ago
Guys and Dolls
The Mikado
Coral
Opera Della Luna’s new interpretation of The Mikado was immediately defined by its bold, brightly-coloured set and colourful, highly stylised costumes (which became more and more surreal as the ...
11 years ago
The Mikado
Cinderella
Coral
The Abingdon Drama Club pantomime this year features Cinderella as she might appear in 2014: no longer a meek young girl waiting for her fairy godmother to help her, this production’s heroine ...
11 years ago
Cinderella
The Bluestocking!
Coral
I found The Bluestocking to be beautifully written in many ways – most outstandingly, the songs, which had truly inventive and inspired rhymes, and tunes that were running through my head all ...
11 years ago
The Bluestocking!
Calendar Girls
Coral
This week, the Bartholomew Players are performing Calendar Girls by Tim Firth, based on the story of a real group of WI women who made a nude calendar to raise funds for Leukaemia research. I have ...
11 years ago
Calendar Girls
Ruddigore
Coral
This term, the OUG&SS are producing Ruddigore, the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta about a young man, Robin, trying to escape his title of baronet and the curse which accompanies it. The play is ...
11 years ago
Ruddigore
Emma
Coral
ONEOHONE’s Emma is a piece of immersive theatre based on the Jane Austen novel. Emma throws a party - comprising herself, some of the book’s key characters and the entire audience - at ...
11 years ago
Emma
Pride and Prejudice
Coral
Theatre Company Two Bit Classics set themselves a frightening challenge this year – to perform the entirety of Pride and Prejudice with only two actors playing the more than twenty roles in the ...
11 years ago
Pride and Prejudice
Judgment at Nuremberg
Coral
After the end of the war, the first international court of justice spent years trying to bring to justice those behind the Holocaust and War Crimes of World War Two, in what were called the Nuremberg ...
11 years ago
Judgment at Nuremberg
