Reviews by Josh Hall
Beard
Josh Hall
Beard is a new student musical from Eoghan McNelis. It tells the story of Sam (Hero Douglas), an aspiring journalist who has been served an eviction notice on her flat in London. Fortunately, her ...
4 years ago
Beard
Spring Awakening
Josh Hall
In Spring Awakening, composers Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater inject Frank Wedekind’s 1891 play of the same name with alt-rock crowd pleasers, to tell a story of sex and repression in 19th-century ...
5 years ago
Spring Awakening
Green Book [12A]
Josh Hall
Green Book is the Oscar-nominated film charting the true story of Tony 'Lip' Vallelonga (Vigo Mortensen), a stereotypical Italian-American bouncer from the Bronx, charged with the driving and ...
5 years ago
Green Book [12A]
Apostasy [PG]
Josh Hall
It's not uncommon to see Jehovah's Witnesses at public locations with leaflets and copies of their magazine The Watchtower. Despite these public street placements, they never seem to actively sell ...
6 years ago
Apostasy [PG]
Our Town
Josh Hall
It’s very easy to forget that the Oxford School of Drama exists. On the Oxford theatre circuit, audiences are always inundated with publicity for local amateur, touring and Oxford University ...
6 years ago
Our Town
Dogfight
Josh Hall
The Duke of Wellington once said of his soldiers 'I don’t know what they do to the enemy, but they sure as hell frighten me'. If he’d ever met the US Marines featured in Dogfight, he’d have ...
6 years ago
Dogfight
One Small Step
Josh Hall
One Small Step, a children’s show telling the story of the space race from Sputnik 1 to Apollo 11, might go down as one of the greatest achievements in the history of the Oxford Playhouse. The show ...
6 years ago
One Small Step
Godspell
Josh Hall
Godspell is what The Passion of The Christ would have looked like if it was performed by the cast of Glee. The 1971 musical is written by John Michael Tebelak and Steven Schwartz, the later going on ...
6 years ago
Godspell
Isle of Dogs [PG]
Josh Hall
Isle of Dogs is the latest offering from Wes Andreson. This is only his second animated feature after Fantastic Mr Fox which is surprising as Anderson is a director who demands maximum control over ...
6 years ago
Isle of Dogs [PG]
DNA by Dennis Kelly
Josh Hall
DNA is best described as Blue Remembered Hills for millennials. It is written by Dennis Kelly, famous for his darkly comic theatre writing such as Osama The Hero, After The End and recent sell-out ...
6 years ago
DNA by Dennis Kelly
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
Josh Hall
It is normally in the formula of reviews to give a synopsis of the show in order for the reader to make an informed decision about whether this is something they want to see or not, almost regardless ...
6 years ago
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
Little Howard's Big Show for Kids
Josh Hall
Little Howard's Big Show For Kids brings to the live stage a comedy double act which has now endured for nearly 10 years. Comprising of the grown-up and real-life Big Howard and the 6-year-old ...
8 years ago
Little Howard's Big Show for Kids
300 to 1
Josh Hall
300 to 1 is the latest theatrical offering from Matt Panesh (or Monkey Poet). The evening is comprised of a 45 minute one-man re-enactment of the Zack Snyder and Gerrard Butler film 300, and a second ...
10 years ago
300 to 1
The Nightingales
Josh Hall
The Nightingales, a comedy by Peter Quilter set in the 1950's, is this week brought to The Unicorn stage at Abingdon by amateur group BreakaLeg Productions. The story tells of variety pianist ...
11 years ago
The Nightingales
Dealer's Choice
Josh Hall
Dealer's Choice is an award winning 1995 play by Patrick Marber which originally staged at The National Theatre before being revived at Trafalgar Studios in 2007. It tells a story set in a ...
11 years ago
Dealer's Choice
A Hijacking [15]
Josh Hall
Kapringen (A Hijacking) is a Danish language film, (although the characters do fluctuate between Danish and English), from director Tobias Lindholm. It is set aboard the cargo ship MV Rozen which is ...
11 years ago
A Hijacking [15]
The Seagull
Josh Hall
When Chekov premiered The Seagull on the 17th of October 1896 at the Alexadriskey Theatre in St Petersburg the audience found it truly shocking, some jeered, some walked out, some just sat ...
11 years ago
The Seagull
Lead Feathers
Josh Hall
A small village in Kent, 1919. The Law family, made up of husband Charles, wife Jane and teenage daughter Elsie, are about to play host to their estranged friend Robert and his wife Cynthia. Charles ...
11 years ago
Lead Feathers
