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Reviews
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Cool to be Curious
Muddy reviews this phenomenal National Theatre production, in Oxford until Saturday. The long and short of it? GO!
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Jane Eyre
If you see one play this year, make it this jaw-droppingly brilliant production at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre
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C’est parfait
The Degas to Picasso exhibition at The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has us totally wowed at Muddy HQ, and this is the last weekend to catch it.
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Evita, New Theatre, Oxford
Don't cry for me, Muddy readers, the truth is I'll never leave YOUUUUUU.... Fresh from a sell-out West End run and and newly arrived in our 'hood, Evita has flounced up to Oxford's New Theatre in her furs but is she worthy of your affections?
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Muddy reviews: Wonderland at New Theatre, Oxford
A re-imagining of Alice in Wonderland at Oxford's New Theatre, with our heroine now in her forties, having a mid-life crisis and searching for a way to get out of the hole (get it?). Read the Muddy review.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (Waterside Theatre)
Read the book but not yet seen the play? Mark Haddon's 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime' is among the most exciting plays I've ever seen - so mind-blowing I've seen it three times. Now at the Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, here's why you should see it.
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Up close and personal
Know much about artist John Piper? We didn't either, but having seen the new the permanent new exhibition of the Henley-based polymath at The River & Rowing Museum in Henley we're now decided fans. See what the fuss is about here.
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Review: ‘Aladdin’ at the Aylesbury Waterside
I’m just back from Aylesbury Waterside Theatre and onto my computer to give you my hot-off-the-panto press verdict on Aladdin starring EastEnders‘ Michelle Collins and TOWIE‘s Jasmin Walia. To put it succinctly – because I’m knackered! – I think you’ll love it. There, shall I go to bed now? What do you mean no?! […]
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Dirty Dancing at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre
Watching the first night of the Dirty Dancing The Musical at the AWT was exactly like watching the movie (which is no bad thing, let’s face it), but with added hysteria. Go-with-your-girlfriends gold-dust.
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Storms, War and Shipwrecks
The Ashmolean's Summer exhibition is an underwater triumph, a 200-strong exhibition focuses on objects rescued from the bottom of the sea around Sicily, including pieces from an incredible 'flat pack' church and bronze battering rams once mounted on the prows of Roman warships.
