Reviews by Robin Derbyshire
Hay Fever
Robin Derbyshire
What do the Grandes Dames of the theatre do when they finally withdraw from the limelight? If Noël Coward is to be believed, they retire to the Berkshire countryside, where their overindulged ...
9 years ago
Hay Fever
Hunted by Tim Arnot
Robin Derbyshire
Hunted is the second part of the Flick Carter series by Oxfordshire author Tim Arnot. The story takes place in a post-oil, post-information-age England, where most of the population have returned to ...
9 years ago
Hunted by Tim Arnot
As You Like It
Robin Derbyshire
For their latest Shakespearean outing – a production of As You Like It – the Studio Theatre Club have opted for a World War II setting. Visions of Dad's Army and Allo Allo abound as the court of ...
9 years ago
As You Like It
School Assembly and Condemned To Live
Robin Derbyshire
This Oxford Fringe double-bill showcases two new 30-minute plays by local writers.
School Assembly, written and directed by Chris Sivewright, shows the aftermath of an affair between a teacher ...
10 years ago
School Assembly and Condemned To Live
Contractions by Mike Bartlett
Robin Derbyshire
Mike Bartlett's pitch-black two-hander began life as the Radio 4 play Love Contract, and was originally staged in an upstairs office at the Royal Court. This 50-minute play takes the form of a ...
10 years ago
Contractions by Mike Bartlett
Wanted
Robin Derbyshire
Wanted, the debut of Oxfordshire-based author Tim Arnot, is the first in a series of novels telling the story of Flick Carter. Sixteen-year-old Flick lives a simple life in the town of Faringdon, ...
11 years ago
Wanted
Rookery Nook
Robin Derbyshire
The year is 1926. A young woman has arrived at a country house wearing nothing but pyjamas. Waiting in the wings are loud Germans, brusque Admirals, gossiping housekeepers, interfering in-laws, and ...
11 years ago
Rookery Nook
Billy Christmas - a novel by Mark A. Pritchard
Robin Derbyshire
It is nearly a year since Tom Christmas disappeared without trace on Christmas Day, leaving his son, the eponymous Billy, with an increasingly reclusive mother, and the non-stop taunts of his ...
12 years ago
Billy Christmas - a novel by Mark A. Pritchard
The Happiest Days Of Your Life
Robin Derbyshire
It is 1948. The war is over and things are slowly returning to normal, but some difficulties remain. What do you do with 50 pupils and their teachers when their school buildings have been flattened ...
12 years ago
The Happiest Days Of Your Life
The Comedy Of Errors
Robin Derbyshire
Mistaken identity is a common theme in Shakespeare‘s comedies, and it peaks in The Comedy of Errors (aka The One With All The Twins). The story involves two pairs of twins – two masters ...
12 years ago
The Comedy Of Errors
The Hollow
Robin Derbyshire
The Hollow was adapted by Agatha Christie from her own novel and is a typical country-house murder mystery. Everything seems to be present and correct – the murder victim whom almost everyone has a ...
13 years ago
The Hollow
All's Well That Ends Well
Robin Derbyshire
Adding to their burgeoning Shakespearean back-catalogue, the Studio Theatre Club have decided to move away from the standards and stage All’s Well That Ends Well. Although superficially a breezy ...
14 years ago
All's Well That Ends Well
