Reviews by Dan Hall
'What We Cannot Know', by Marcus du Sautoy
Dan Hall
'God,' says Marcus du Sautoy, 'is the things we cannot know.' Such is the imposing tone of the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science's talk on his latest book, What We Cannot ...
8 years ago
'What We Cannot Know', by Marcus du Sautoy
Casablanca [U]
Dan Hall
Cult Screens marries the marvels of Hollywood with the beauty of Oxford's older spaces, taking its peripatetic silver screen to some of the city's most spectacular spots: this year at Oxford Castle, ...
8 years ago
Casablanca [U]
The Smyths
Dan Hall
Commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of The Smiths’ seminal second album, Meat is Murder, are acclaimed cover band The Smyths – an act so good that the epithet ‘cover band’ really does not ...
9 years ago
The Smyths
Much Ado About Nothing
Dan Hall
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy of quarrelling lovers, stately affairs, and high-voltage farce. What is promised (and delivered) in this particular performance is a spectacle with a sense of ...
9 years ago
Much Ado About Nothing
T.S. Eliot Four Quartets anniversary concert
Dan Hall
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past. A transcendence, for me, that took place in hearing Eliot’s words in the context of ...
9 years ago
T.S. Eliot Four Quartets anniversary concert
Last Train To Oxford (Someone Called Derrida)
Dan Hall
There is a corpse in the Bodleian… John Schad and Fred Dalmasso’s adapted “play of voices”, Last Train to Oxford, is an incredibly daring exercise in transgression. Writings are the rebar ...
9 years ago
Last Train To Oxford (Someone Called Derrida)
Rich Hall: 3:10 To Humour (ages 15+)
Dan Hall
Rich Hall is an American frontiersman of British comedy, and he is at the top of his game. Far from being a finely honed act of precise beats and crafted material, 3:10 to Humour is more like ‘An ...
10 years ago
Rich Hall: 3:10 To Humour (ages 15+)
Silent on the Matter
Dan Hall
Newton’s Third Law of Motion: When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction on the first body. Examining ...
10 years ago
Silent on the Matter
Harvey
Dan Hall
Harvey tells the story of the nice guy to end all nice guys, Elwood P. Dowd. Elwood’s best friend is an invisible, 6-foot-three-and-a-half-inch tall white rabbit: the eponymous Harvey. Coupled with ...
10 years ago
Harvey
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
Dan Hall
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men – David Foster Wallace’s 1999 collection of postmodernist short stories – seems an extremely unlikely candidate for a comic stage adaptation. Stories include ...
10 years ago
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
Jonny Pelham, Mark Silcox, and Peter White at The Glee Club
Dan Hall
We were all laughing as soon as Jonny Pelham walked out on stage (being, as he attests, clinically ugly). Considering the highly structured approach of his routine, there is a real darkness at the ...
10 years ago
Jonny Pelham, Mark Silcox, and Peter White at The Glee Club
Handel's Messiah
Dan Hall
The pulchritude of Wren’s Sheldonian theatre provides an air of occasion to any concert, but it holds a particularly special pertinence for the works of Handel, whose fortunes were transformed by ...
10 years ago
Handel's Messiah
Othello
Dan Hall
Othello, here, is not what it is. Transposing Shakespeare’s lofty tragic masterpiece into the grotty interior of a northern pub invariably entails a radical departure from conservative ideas of The ...
10 years ago
Othello
