Reviews by Yulia Savikovskaya
Blink by Phil Porter
Yulia Savikovskaya
Sometimes a student theatre production in Oxford can be a pure delight. I always knew it, and remember running to several shows I had particularly enjoyed to see them twice or more: Posh staged at ...
3 years ago
Blink by Phil Porter
Orestes
Yulia Savikovskaya
The past year has brought so many unexpected changes to the world order that one might feel inundated and overwhelmed on an everyday basis. Having graduated from Oxford in 2019, I can only imagine ...
4 years ago
Orestes
The Happy Prince [15]
Yulia Savikovskaya
The Happy Prince is a new take on Oscar Wilde’s final years, the period that has haunted and inspired many artists after Wilde’s death. The film is a creation of Rupert Everett, who wrote, ...
6 years ago
The Happy Prince [15]
Imogen Cooper, SJE Arts International Piano Series 2018
Yulia Savikovskaya
The wonderful and high-profile SJE Arts International Piano Series had another installment of their season on 14th June 2018. Imogen Cooper, an internationally renowned pianist, who was the Humanitas ...
6 years ago
Imogen Cooper, SJE Arts International Piano Series 2018
Much Ado About Nothing
Yulia Savikovskaya
In Trinity Term, many garden plays spring up, using the beautiful landscapes and hidden corners of Oxford colleges as their setting. Attending a garden play is a special experience, with a feeling of ...
6 years ago
Much Ado About Nothing
Gautier Capuçon
Yulia Savikovskaya
It could have been just another nice evening spent listening to the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra's carefully chosen program of Mozart and Haydn’s works. The OPO was reduced to just around 20 ...
7 years ago
Gautier Capuçon
Whitney - Queen of the Night
Yulia Savikovskaya
Last
night, Oxford audiences had a chance to reconnect with their memories of
the great multi-award winning singer Whitney Houston, and to their experiences of the 1980s and 1990s. Paul Roberts ...
7 years ago
Whitney - Queen of the Night
Oxford Philharmonia: 15 Years At Oxford
Yulia Savikovskaya
Posters featuring Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra with renowned soloists are a common feature of every year in Oxford. Although it seems like another Oxford tradition dating back many years, the ...
7 years ago
Oxford Philharmonia: 15 Years At Oxford
A Familiar Friend
Yulia Savikovskaya
Student productions are always a case of trial and error. Explorations of skills growing and not yet fully mastered: we expect them to waver and have minutes of uncertainty and confusion. But in ...
7 years ago
A Familiar Friend
The Seagull
Yulia Savikovskaya
In the summer and autumn 2016 the National Theatre had a Young Chekhov season of three plays – Ivanov, Platonov and The Seagull, with three of them being translated by David Hare. While the two ...
7 years ago
The Seagull
Arseholes
Yulia Savikovskaya
One of the last student productions of Trinity Term 2017 has taken place in Bernard Sunley Theatre in St Catherine's College – an unusual location for student drama which nevertheless has gathered ...
7 years ago
Arseholes
