Reviews by Jessica Osborne
The Writers' Greenhouse
Jessica Osborne
This summer, as usual, I attended two Writers' Greenhouse Saturday workshops. It was sad not to be cycling over to Wolvercote for the day, but instead we had afternoon workshops on Zoom. Although I'm ...
4 years ago
The Writers' Greenhouse
The Writers' Greenhouse
Jessica Osborne
The final workshop of the Writers' Greenhouse summer series was on getting published. This was the third workshop I have attended and it had all the usual ingredients - great atmosphere, interesting ...
5 years ago
The Writers' Greenhouse
The Writers' Greenhouse
Jessica Osborne
I attended one of the summer Saturday workshops - on writing in scenes - and it was a revelation. There were twelve of us, some of whom had already worked with Meegan, and some - like me - ...
6 years ago
The Writers' Greenhouse
Coffee Concert: Tom Poster (piano)
Jessica Osborne
The idea of a piano recital is not always as tempting as chamber music played by several instruments, but this morning’s Coffee Concert given by Tom Poster was one not to miss. (If you did miss it, ...
6 years ago
Coffee Concert: Tom Poster (piano)
The Road to Romanticism
Jessica Osborne
From the moment it was advertised this concert was unmissable: Instruments of Time and Truth with its chief conductor, Edward Higginbottom, and Bojan Cicic, a lively and passionate performer who is ...
7 years ago
The Road to Romanticism
Mezzeto
Jessica Osborne
Mezzeto has become our favourite place to eat before or after a visit to the Phoenix, or if we just want to meet for lunch in town. It's a tapas bar with mezze available and some tagine thrown in - ...
8 years ago
Mezzeto
It's A Wonderful Life
Jessica Osborne
During the interval of last night’s performance of It’s a Wonderful Life at the Playhouse, I asked my husband if it reminded him of his childhood in America. ‘That film was the reason I left ...
9 years ago
It's A Wonderful Life
Inside Llewyn Davis [15]
Jessica Osborne
This is a marvellous film - a Coen Brothers classic with a touch of Groundhog Day. Not being myself that keen on folk, I almost didn't go, but there is some fine singing. Even more importantly ...
10 years ago
Inside Llewyn Davis [15]
A Dangerous Method [15]
Jessica Osborne
Don't be put off seeing this film! Knightley IS painful to watch (see previous reviews), but that makes what happens all the more interesting - and real.
Jung comes under the microscope here, ...
12 years ago
A Dangerous Method [15]
A Delicate Balance
Jessica Osborne
The subject matter of A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) is far from cheery: family life, ageing, alcoholism, existential dread, the limits of friendship. ...
13 years ago
A Delicate Balance
Adderbury Ensemble
Jessica Osborne
Adderbury Ensemble, Sheldonian, 22 September 2011Last night the Adderbury Ensemble inaugurated their autumn series at the Sheldonian with a sparkling Baroque programme. They were led by David Lepage ...
13 years ago
Adderbury Ensemble
Book Ends
Jessica Osborne
It is a stroke of genius to perform Book Ends in a book shop - the only downside being that there is only room for about forty people in the audience: if you want to see it (last performance today, ...
13 years ago
Book Ends
My Dog Tulip [12A]
Jessica Osborne
Exquisite drawing - in the style of The Illusionist. A great story of a lonely man finding himself through a female Alsation. We laughed, we cried. A marvellous film.
13 years ago
My Dog Tulip [12A]
