Reviews by George Fogarty
A Tiger’s Tale
George Fogarty
A Tiger's Tale opens with a trio of actors starting to get a little bored with the traditional fare of princes, princesses, dragons and even happy endings. Instead they decide to set themselves the ...
2 months ago
A Tiger’s Tale
Lokkhi Terra
George Fogarty
Bossaphonik has long been one of the best things about living in Oxford. For almost twenty years now, the club night has, come rain and shine, showcased consistently banging live music, every single ...
2 years ago
Lokkhi Terra
Live Stand-Up Comedy at the Glee Club
George Fogarty
Tom Ward is both compere and headline act of tonight’s show (“cuts,” he explains), which makes him effectively the warm up act for his own warm up act. So underwhelming is our response when he ...
2 years ago
Live Stand-Up Comedy at the Glee Club
The Show That Must Not Be Named
George Fogarty
Jericho Comedy has been consistently delivering weekly doses of stand up to adult audiences for several years, but their hugely popular wizarding parody is one of their first foray into children’s ...
2 years ago
The Show That Must Not Be Named
A Christmas Carol
George Fogarty
Dickens’ classic tale of yuletide redemption was set in 1842, one of the most tumultuous years in British revolutionary history. That summer, the Plug Plot riots had brought industry to a virtual ...
2 years ago
A Christmas Carol
Comedy 4 Kids
George Fogarty
Stand up is, in this humble writer’s opinion, one of the world’s finest art forms, so when a chance to introduce my kids (aged 5 and 9) to it, I snapped it up! Just like an adult comedy club, ...
2 years ago
Comedy 4 Kids
Oxford Festival Fringe Preview Comedy Festival 2022
George Fogarty
Some people say politics and comedy don’t mix, but I believe the opposite; neither really makes sense without the other. Without a sense of the absurdity of our current predicament, politics cannot ...
2 years ago
Oxford Festival Fringe Preview Comedy Festival 2022
Oxford Festival Fringe Preview Comedy Festival 2022
George Fogarty
The Oxford Comedy Festival is a great chance to see comedians honing new shows on the road to the Edinburgh Festival, and it always reminds me what a tremendous art stand up comedy really is. I first ...
2 years ago
Oxford Festival Fringe Preview Comedy Festival 2022
Dinosaur World
George Fogarty
Miranda’s parents, back “in the ancient past - the 1990s,” went on a voyage to a mysterious island off the coast of Argentina with a team of palaeontologists. No one had ever made it back from ...
2 years ago
Dinosaur World
Tweedy's Lost Property
George Fogarty
Anyone disappointed by the cancellation of Gifford’s Circus in recent years will be happy to know that Tweedy, their resident clown, is now touring with his own show, which is a delight for ...
3 years ago
Tweedy's Lost Property
Home In Time For Christmas
George Fogarty
The intimate environment of the Burton Taylor studio, where you are never more than about a metre and a half from the action, can sometimes be a little overwhelming for shy kids like mine. But as ...
3 years ago
Home In Time For Christmas
Andromache
George Fogarty
Andromache is an intriguing choice from Oxford Theatre Guild, and the first play ever to be performed in Trinity College chapel. Written at the dawn of the liberal era, it is now being performed ...
3 years ago
Andromache
Much Ado About Nothing
George Fogarty
Outdoor stagings of Shakespeare have become something of an Oxford tradition, with various college quads, Magdalen College school, the courtyard of the Bodleian library, and even Headington Hill ...
3 years ago
Much Ado About Nothing
Summer Family Days at the Science Oxford Centre
George Fogarty
I have to be honest - I was not a neutral observer at this event. I am partisan when it comes to Science Oxford, and when I saw review tickets available, I snapped them up because my kids absolutely ...
3 years ago
Summer Family Days at the Science Oxford Centre
Stewart Lee: Snowflake / Tornado
George Fogarty
Fucking funny, as ever. So that’s that bit of the review done. Now to more serious matters. As a politically correct liberal comic, Lee tells us, he’s not sure how he fits into a comedy scene ...
5 years ago
Stewart Lee: Snowflake / Tornado
How Does This Politics Thing Work Then?
George Fogarty
Browsing the latest Pegasus programme on the lookout for some quality puppetry to take my kids along to, it was in fact this show, promising to make politics comprehensible to seven-year-olds, that ...
5 years ago
How Does This Politics Thing Work Then?
The Threepenny Opera
George Fogarty
Georgie Botham’s reimagining of Brecht’s classic musical could not be more timely. Debuting in 1928, the play gained traction as the Great Depression started to bite, and was performed thousands ...
6 years ago
The Threepenny Opera
Malcolm X: Legacy, Continuities and Challenges
George Fogarty
Part of the Malcolm X Film Festival, this session focuses specifically on Malcolm's legacy today, and will hear from five cultural activists who have made great contributions to bringing issues of ...
10 years ago
Malcolm X: Legacy, Continuities and Challenges
