Reviews by Harpreet K Paul
Kaleidoscope
Harpreet K Paul
I took my almost 17 month old
and six year old to see Kaleidoscope by Filstkit Theatre Company at the
Pegasus Theatre yesterday. It’s recommended for 6 to 18-month-olds but
my six year old ...
9 months ago
Kaleidoscope
The Sound Of Music
Harpreet K Paul
The Sound of Music arrived in Oxford yesterday, bringing its sickly sweetness and familiar notes to the New Theatre. Martin Connor's touring production, produced by Bill Kenwright, felt a bit like ...
8 years ago
The Sound Of Music
Of Mice And Men
Harpreet K Paul
The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy!
Robert Burns
Set in California during the Great Depression of the late 1930s, ...
9 years ago
Of Mice And Men
Rent
Harpreet K Paul
A ground breaking musical inspired by Puccini's opera La Boheme, it is set as a raw rock musical portraying the gritty and bohemian world of New York City's East Village in the late 1980s, under the ...
9 years ago
Rent
What Does it Mean to be Human in the Digital Age?
Harpreet K Paul
Students, local residents and academics gathered at the Mathematics Institute yesterday, wondering how four speakers would answer the question "What Does it Mean to be Human in the Digital Age?". ...
9 years ago
What Does it Mean to be Human in the Digital Age?
The Flint Street Nativity
Harpreet K Paul
The Flint Street Nativity, written by Tim Firth, was broadcast by ITV on 22 December 1999. Based on real accounts, the play is set in an inner city primary school on the Welsh-Cheshire borders. BMH ...
9 years ago
The Flint Street Nativity
Banana Tree
Harpreet K Paul
Sandwiched between Zizzis and the Opium Den, across the street from the Old Fire Station, Banana Tree is the latest culinary chain restaurant arrival in George Street. Billed as a healthy 'Indochina ...
9 years ago
Banana Tree
Annie
Harpreet K Paul
Annie is set in the U.S. in the 1930s during the Great Depression which has forced millions out of work, and into extreme poverty. Navigating her way through the gritty reality of social exclusion, ...
9 years ago
Annie
The Bodyguard
Harpreet K Paul
The soundtrack from The Bodyguard became formative through my teen years. The capacity of the original soundtrack to move people through decades is what holds this stage adaptation of The Bodyguard ...
9 years ago
The Bodyguard
The Journey
Harpreet K Paul
Oxford is a town of two cities. The poverty and deprivation which triggered the town or gown riots of the early 1990s has been entrenched further in recent years. Economic stagnation - as wages fail ...
9 years ago
The Journey
He Had Hairy Hands
Harpreet K Paul
Set in a quaint English town where preparations for an afternoon tea party are being upset by vicious murders, He Had Hairy Hands has the aesthetic of a 1970s buddy-cop TV show, combined with a ...
9 years ago
He Had Hairy Hands
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
Harpreet K Paul
The Cherry Orchard was Anton Chekov's final play. The Russian realist playwright intended the play as a comedy but its first production (1904) was directed by Constantin Stanislavski as a tragedy. ...
9 years ago
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
Brave New World
Harpreet K Paul
Brave New World, a dystopian novel written by Aldous Huxley in 1931, has been bravely adapted for theatre by Dawn King. The stage adaptation is careful to relay the key themes of the novel, which is ...
9 years ago
Brave New World
Hairspray The Musical
Harpreet K Paul
1962…JFK was in The White House…John Glenn was in orbit…Cadillacs had fins …Beehives were in …And girls really knew how to tease! Bringing arresting Broadway and West End glitz to Oxford, ...
9 years ago
Hairspray The Musical
Zumba Fitness With Rhiannon
Harpreet K Paul
Between two doors from the entrance to the studio, the Old Fire Station went from bright and breezy to nightclub-esque, complete with dimmed lights interspersed with florescent flashes of red, ...
9 years ago
Zumba Fitness With Rhiannon
Andre Bisson & the Rhythm & Blues Experience
Harpreet K Paul
Canada, the land of ice hockey, Celine Dion, poutine and maple syrup. Certainly, Rhythm and Blues is not the first thing to come to mind. Yet, Ontario born musician André Bisson brought sounds from ...
9 years ago
Andre Bisson & the Rhythm & Blues Experience
Dr Longitude’s Marvellous Imaginary Menagerie
Harpreet K Paul
Children no longer play using their imagination is a phrase I often hear said. They need immediate gratification and get it from the stream of entertaining videos available on demand. Les Enfants ...
9 years ago
Dr Longitude’s Marvellous Imaginary Menagerie
