The Oxford Playhouse, Oxford

Although I have lived near Oxford for many years I had only ever been to the New Theatre and although I was vaguely aware that the city boasted other theatres I had never visited them. My daughter is part of a local drama group and they have become involved in the National Theatre youth connection competition. On passing the first round their next challenge was to perform in a “proper” theatre. They were allocated the Oxford Playhouse which is how I came to visit last week to watch their performance. Getting There Travelling in to Oxford can be tiresome from our direction as the one-way system ... more

There is something 'Windows 95' about a membership database that doesn't compute while ‘updating details’, such as: your correct name. Of course, this happened to me, when a work-experience staff member of the Oxford Playhouse initially added a letter (s) to the end of my surname. This was when I was accepted as an honorary member of the ‘OP Production Database’ – naturally, a proud moment for me but slightly tarnished by being plural – there is only one of me and frankly for the good of the human race I’m glad this is the case. I’m not for cloning either, as I’ll be worried what the other me ... more