MATILDA WNEK finds a story of woe – but an inconsistent one – in an ADC production that hasn’t the vision to take its text all the way.
The newly-sceptered THEATRE GUIDE DUKE holds audience with the serfs of Cambridge and dispenses infallible wisdom ex cathedra.
Theatre’s back, and so is THE THEATRE GUIDE DOG. He spent the vacation revising biting and snarling – reader caution advised.
Theatre Editor KIERAN CORCORAN can’t quite bring himself to savage these non-student amateurs like they deserve. But he maintains that they were really bad.
King’s student Lily Cole is set to appear in popular BBC show Doctor Who, as her acting career continues, though not all Who fans are impressed.
CALLUM MULLINS: was forced to ‘take a warm, golden shower of camptastic close-harmony fun’ in the varsity a cappella-off.
MATILDA WNEK takes childish yet well-articulated delight in devised theatre from beyond the Iron Curtain.
Senior Theatre Critic PHOEBE LUCKHURST doubts herself, but gets past that and then doubts this production instead. A lot.
The novelty of seeing Simon Haines in a student play isn’t enough for TOBY PARKER-REES. Ironically, the standout performance was from a complete greenhorn called Lily.
LAURIE COLDWELL ponders Czech whispers, pigs and streams of consciousness. There’s a review in there somewhere too.
CAITLIN DOHERTY mourns the absence of Tory-bashing, but is otherwise taken in by a poignant stab at privilege and elitism.
JOE BATES finds Jeff Carpenter’s Dido and Aeneas so bad it’s not even so-bad-it’s-funny.
Theatre Editor KIERAN CORCORAN gets lost in the woods late at night. And likes it.
MATILDA WNEK: “there’s only so far you can go with a production whose highlight is a crab impression.”
MOLLY GAVRIEL: ‘Witty but unoriginal, the show was a poorly executed agglomeration of student comedy’
PHOEBE LUCKHURST: ‘dark, voyeuristic and rather unnerving but extremely well acted, directed and produced.’
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Sophie Hoare
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