Oxford Mail | Theatre

School Role

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Talented young actress Rosie Wyatt tells KATHERINE MACALISTER about her latest part in the powerful play Mogadishu.

Loafing About

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Tom and Henry Herbert, The Fabulous Baker Brothers, are so busy it’s almost impossible to pin them down. But I finally managed to nab them on a layby on the side of the M4. Oh the glamour. Having already been up with the larks baking, before setting off on the road for a busy day of interviews and TV appearances, you get the gist of how hard these boys are working. Katherine MacAlister finds out what motivates this handsome duo.

Royal Male

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:00:00 +0000

As majestic musical The King and I sweeps into Oxford, KATHERINE MACALISTER spends time getting to know the two lead actors and finds out what it takes to tackle such iconic roles.

Watch The Birdie

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:00:00 +0000

KATHERINE MACALISTER puts the focus on schoolboy Jamie Unwin whose pictures are taking the photography world by storm.

Larkin About

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Steve Larkin, poet, Hammer & Tongue inventor, royal entertainer, youth worker, university lecturer, prison poet, the list goes on. He is also presenting his own one-man show at the North Wall tomorrow night. Katherine MacAlister meets the man behind the words.

REVIEW: Suggs: My Life Story, Oxford Playhouse

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:00:00 +0000

We all know that Suggs is a larger-than-life character and hugely entertaining on stage. But who would have guessed that the Madness frontman’s new one-man show Suggs: My Life Story would be so professional, and brilliantly delivered?

REVIEW: Spamalot, New Theatre, Oxford

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:00:00 +0000

WHERE else would you get head-bashing monks, a killer wooden rabbit and a former EastEnder pretending to be a horse?

Cool For Catz

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Caroline Catz is a honey, an intense one maybe – the cliche would be ‘thinking man’s crumpet’ – but there’s more to her than that, as her role in Carol Churchill’s revived feminist play Top Girls proves. So don’t be fooled by her pragmatic character Louisa in Doc Martin, there’s fire in her belly, as Katherine MacAlister finds out.

Stepping Beyond

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Madness frontman Suggs tells KATHERINE MACALISTER how the death of his cat spurred him on to find out more about his past.

Pure Circus

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Throw away all your preconceptions about circuses, rip up the rule book and start again.