Reviews by Erin Stewart
On the Basis of Sex [12A]
Erin Stewart
US Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsberg is largely seen by progressive pockets of America as a key figure protecting the public from Trump’s abuses of power. Ginsberg was appointed to the ...
5 years ago
On the Basis of Sex [12A]
The Lonesome West
Erin Stewart
How many people have to die for two brothers to get along? This question is posed throughout Practically Peter Production’s performance of The Lonesome West, originally written by Irish playwright ...
6 years ago
The Lonesome West
Hedda
Erin Stewart
The University of Oxford student company Peripeteia Productions' production of Lucy Kirkwood’s Hedda provides a compelling and grimly humorous account of boredom, restlessness, and grief. British ...
6 years ago
Hedda
How We Think We Think
Erin Stewart
'Sonder' is an invented word with a real resonance. It's defined in John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows as 'the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as ...
7 years ago
How We Think We Think
The Amplitude
Erin Stewart
The Amplitude is partly a lecture, partly a dance recital, partly spoken word poetry, and partly an interactive workshop which changes the way we understand sound. Created and performed by Gabriele ...
8 years ago
The Amplitude
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Erin Stewart
Leaning House and Oxford University Press's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream makes use of the extended hours of sunlight in July and the OUP's beautiful quad. Four young lovers wander the ...
8 years ago
A Midsummer Night's Dream
10,000 Smarties
Erin Stewart
There are currently 65 million refugees in the world and an incredibly low willingness to provide safe homes for them globally. Harsh regulations, border closures, long expected stays in refugee ...
8 years ago
10,000 Smarties
A Streetcar Named Desire
Erin Stewart
Blank Canvas Production's interpretation of classic play, A Streetcar Named Desire, takes audiences into the seedy, sultry, and sweaty heart of New Orleans in the 1940s. Blanche Dubois (Mary Higgins) ...
8 years ago
A Streetcar Named Desire
Cold Warm
Erin Stewart
Cold Warm, a play by Florence Read showing as part of the Oxford University Dramatic Society's New Writing Festival, traces the rise of capitalistic housing developments with the fall of community. ...
8 years ago
Cold Warm
Standby For Tape Back-Up
Erin Stewart
It turns out that a video tape can be medicinal. Standby for Tape Back-Up, a play performed by Ross Sutherland at the Old Fire Station, shows this to be the case. Depressed, bereaved, dealing with ...
8 years ago
Standby For Tape Back-Up
Turning Leaves
Erin Stewart
Directed by Eleanor Conlon and John Retallack, Turning Leaves is a play about justifying unethical, illegal behaviour, and the arbitrary ways that behaviour is judged. The play comprises of three ...
8 years ago
Turning Leaves
The 39 Steps
Erin Stewart
There are certain things you expect of a traditionally British comedy. Cross-dressing is an obvious one, alongside repressed homoeroticism. Jokes about the Scottish accent, absurd politeness (such as ...
8 years ago
The 39 Steps
Freak
Erin Stewart
In her memoir released last year, Lena Dunham opined, "There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is a woman." ...
8 years ago
Freak
Museums at Night - Damifino!
Erin Stewart
For Halloween, the Museum of Oxford and the immersive theatre company, Hidden Track, ran Damifino!, which included a tour of the more macabre aspects of their collection. This is no easy feat, not ...
8 years ago
Museums at Night - Damifino!
Aesthetic Crime: architectural controversies in 20th century Oxford
Erin Stewart
You could be forgiven for thinking that the architecture of Oxford is actually quite nice. There are buildings in Oxford which represent each design epoch since the days of the Saxons, and the ...
8 years ago
Aesthetic Crime: architectural controversies in 20th century Oxford
Proof by David Auburn
Erin Stewart
Mathematics is at the centre of David Auburn’s Proof and so it's thus apt that The Oxford Theatre Guild’s adaptation, directed by Daniel Whitley, is being held under the corridors and offices of ...
8 years ago
Proof by David Auburn
