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Abigail's Party - The Playhouse - March 2004
Abigail's Party - Keble O’Reilly Theatre - February 2005
A Christmas Carol - The BMW Plant - December 2004
Accidental Death of An Anarchist - February 2005
A Cloud In Trousers - Burton Taylor - December 2004
A Doll's House - The Playhouse - April 2004
All My Sons - The Oxford Playhouse - January 2004
Alice Through The Looking Glass - December 2004
A Midsummer Night's Dream - July 2005
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Unicorn Theatre - March 2004
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Merton Gardens - June 2005
A Night at The Musicals - The New Theatre - September 2003
After Mrs Rochester - The Playhouse - April 2003
Amajuba - The Playhouse - July 2003
An Inspector Calls -The Playhouse - June 2005
Another Muffin - January 2005
Antigone - The OFS - November 2004
Anton Chekhov - The Oxford Playhouse - April 2003
Arcadia - President's garden at Magdalen College - May 2005
A Room Of One's Own - April 2004
A Streetcar Named Desire- The Oxford Playhouse - March 2005
As You Like It - Headington Hill Park - June 2005
As You Like It - The Oxford Playhouse - June 2003
As You Like It - Wadham College - July 2003
As You Like It - New College - February 2005
Ashmole and The Ark - The Ashmolean Musuem - July 2003

B
Baby Jane - Pegasus Theatre - November 2003
Bash - The Burton Taylor Theatre - January 2003
Bedbound - Burton Taylor - April 2003
Beauty Queen of Leenane - Unicorn Theatre - April 2004
Billy Connolly - New Theatre - April 2004
Bernard O'Donoghue - Half Moon pub - May 2003
Blasted - review - OFS - January 2003
Buddy Holly Show - Oxford Apollo - February 2003
Busted - Oxford Apollo - May 2003
Blood Brothers - The Oxford Playhouse - May 2003
Bottom - The New Theatre - November 2003
Boys Will Be Boys - The Mill, Sonning - July 2003

C
Camille - The Oxford Playhouse - May 2003
Candice Breitz - Modern Art Oxford - September 2003
Cardenio - The Burton Taylor - March 2004
Carousel - The New Theatre - January 2004
Carry on Gilbert & Sullivan - The Old Fire Station - Sept 2003
Chicago - The New Theatre - Oct 2004
Cinderella On Ice - The New Theatre - January 2005
Comedians - Burton Taylor - February 2005
Comedy Of Errors - February 2005
Complete Works of Shakespeare - Oct 2004
Compleat Angler - The OFS - October 2004
Conversations after a burial - Burton Taylor - May 2004
Copacabana - Oxford Apollo - June 2003
Cooper! Jus' Like That! - The Oxford Apollo - March 2003
Star Doors - The Chuckles Strike Back! - The Oxford Apollo - March
Copacabana - The Oxford Apollo - July 2003
Cyrano De Bergerac - Playhouse - October 2004

D
Dave Gorman - The New Theatre - May 2004
Dealer's Choice - The Burton Taylor - November 2004
Debbie Does Dallas - The OFS - March 2005
Decision (The) - The Burton Taylor Theatre - November 2003
Death of Socrates (The) - The Burton Taylor - February 2004
Dead Beet - The Burton Taylor - September 2004
Debbie Does Dallas - OFS - March 2005
Derek Acorah - New Theatre - January 2005
Dial M for Murder - The Mill, Banbury - July 2003
Discontented Summer: House remix - Pegasus - April 2004
Dogs Barking -Burton Taylor Theatre - February 2004
Down Under - The New Theatre - February 2004
Dr Faustus - The OFS - May 2004
Dumb Waiter (The) - The Oxford Playhouse - February 2004

E
Ed Byrne - The Oxford Playhouse - March 2003
Elements - The Pegasus Theatre - October 2003
England Expects - Burton Taylor -March 2004
English National Ballet - Triple Bill - November 2003
Enter A Free Man - Keble O’Reilly Theatre - January 2005

Europe - The Oxford Playhouse - October 2003

F
Faith Healer - The Burton Taylor Theatre Company - January 2003
Fame - The New Theatre - April 2005
Faust of the Colonnade - The Burton Taylor Theatre - May 2004
Fiddler on the Roof - The Oxford Apollo - March 2003
Faust - The Oxford Playhouse - May 2003
Four Nights in Knaresborough - May 2005
Funny Guy - Burton Taylor Theatre - March 2004
Future Remembered, Past Imagined -The Pegasus - May 2004

G
Ghosts of Ibsen - The Old Fire Station - November 2003
Gretel Parker's artistry provides escape - May 2003
George Piper Dancers - The Oxford Playhouse - May 2003
Graceland - February 2005
Grand Theft Auto Vice City Public Radio - June 2004

H
Hamlet - The Mill - March 2003
Hannah & Hanna - The Pegasus Theatre - November 2003
Happy Natives - October 2003
Harry Hill - The Oxford Apollo - March 2003
Hedda Gabler - The Oxford Playhouse - February 2003
Henri Oguike Dance Company - October 2003
Hobson's Choice - The Oxford Playhouse - September 2003
Humble Boy - The Oxford Playhouse - October 2003

I
Idomeneo - The New Theatre - December 2003
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change - The BT - Feb 2005
The Importance of Being Earnest - The Playhouse - August 2005
Insignificance - The Playhouse - March 2005
In The Mix - The Pegasus Theatre - February 2003
Into The Woods - North Oxfordshire College - June 2003
I Was A Rat! - The Pegasus Theatre - May 2004

J
Jack and The Beanstalk -The Playhouse- December 2003
Japes - The Burton Taylor - June 2005
Jesus Christ Superstar - November 2004
Jim Lambie exhibition - Modern Art Oxford - October 2003
Jimmy Carr - November 2004
Judith Durham - June 2003
Julian Clary - The Oxford Apollo - April 2003
Jo Brand - The Oxford Playhouse - May 2003
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - The New Theatre - December 2003

K
Kafka's Dick - Burton Taylor Theatre - May 2004
Kindertransport - November 2004
Kiss of the Spiderwoman - OFS - November 2003
Krapp's Last Tape - Burton Taylor - June 2005

L
La Boheme - The New Theatre - November 2004
La Boheme - The Oxford Playhouse - March 2003
La Boheme - The Oxford Apollo - March 2003
La Chunga - The BT - March 2005
La Traviata - The New Theatre - December 2003
Lulu - Old Fire Station - May 2004

M
Madama Butterfly - The New Theatre - September 2003
Madam Bovary, Breakfast with Emma - The Playhouse, Sept 2003
Mark Thomas - Pegasus Theatre - May 2005
Mark Thomas - Pegasus Theatre - March 2004
Memoirs of a Professional Cad - Burton Taylor Theatre - Sept 2003
Mission - Pegasus Theatre - June 2003
Midsummer Night's Dream - The Playhouse - June 2003
Me and My Girl - April 2003
Meatloaf - The Oxford Apollo - March 2003
Man and Boy - The Playhouse - November 2004
Mongoose - The Burton Taylor - February 2004
Moon On A Rainbow Shawl - The Oxford Playhouse - March 2003
Mrs Warren's Profession - The Oxford Playhouse - May 2003
Mugged - The Burton Taylor - March 2005
My Night With Reg - The Burton Taylor - October 2004
My Boy Jack - The Oxford Playhouse - May 2004
Mythologies - The Burton Taylor - June 2005

N
1984 - The Old Fire Station - March 2003
Noddy and the Magical Day - Oxford Apollo - June 2003
Nut Cracker (The) The Pegasus Theatre - December 2003

O
Old World - The Oxford Playhouse - June 2003
Old Times- The OFS - January 2005
One Third of a Picture - The Pegasus Theatre - January 2004
Organillo - The Pegasus Theatre - December 2004
Our Country's Good - March 2005
Outside Over There - Banbury Museum - April 2003
Ovid's Women - The BT February 2005
Oxford Student Revue - The Oxford Playhouse - May 2003

P
Parsifal - The New Theatre - October 2003
Phaedra's Love - The Burton Taylor Theatre - May 2004
The Physicists - The Burton Taylor Theatre - January 2003
Pillowman (The) - The Oxford Playhouse - January 2005
Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead - April 2003

Play What I Wrote - The Oxford Playhouse - September 2003
Princess Ida - Wykham Hall - Banbury School - February 2004
Pygmalion - The Old Fire Station - February 2005

Q
The Quare Fellow - Oxford Playhouse - April 2004

R
Random Dance - The Oxford Playhouse -January 2003
Rigoletto - The Old Fire Station - September 2003
Romeo & Juliet - The Oxford Playhouse - October 2003
Romeo & Juliet - The OFS - February 2005
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - May 2005
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - October 2004
Rosencrantz - April 2003
Rambert Dance Company - April 2005
Retrospect - The Old Fire Station - February 2003
Richard Alston Dance Company - The Oxford Playhouse - March 2003
Rich Hall - Oxford Playhouse - June 2004
Ricky Gervais - April 2004
Roy Chubby Brown - The Oxford Apollo - March 2003
The Real Thing - Old Fire Station - May 2004

SSaturday Night Fever - The Oxford Apollo - June 2003
Samo Is Dead - The Burton Taylor - November 2004
Seagull (The) - The Playhouse - May 2005
School for Scandal - Unicorn Theatre - May 2004
Seed - OFS - October 2004
Sejeant Musgraves Dance - November 2003
Shakespeare's Villains - Oxford Playhouse -April 2004
Six Degrees Of Separation - December 2004
Solid Silver '60s Show (The)
Some Sort Of Beautiful - February 2005
Some Voices - January 2005
Spanish Interludes - Feb 2005
Speed The Plow - May 2005
Splendour - The Burton Taylor Theatre Company - May 2003Chuckle Brothers Strikes Back - The Oxford Apollo - April 2003
Still Life - The Burton Taylor - November 2004
Stones In His Pockets - April 2003
Sugar Daddies - The Playhouse - January 2003
Summer and Smoke - The Pegasus Theatre - June 2005

T
Taking Sides - The Playhouse - January 2003
Tom and Viv - Unicorn Theatre - March 2004
Tony and Pat - The Pegasus Theatre - November 2003
Too Hot to Handel - The Old Fire Station - Sept 2003
Tosca - The New Theatre - February 2003
Touched By Fire - May 2004
Treasure Island - February 2005
Trojan Women - The Playhouse - May 2004
Trojan Women -The Theatre Chipping Norton - Feb 2004
Trust Byron - Sept 2003
The Boy Who Fell Into A Book - The Oxford Playhouse - January 2003
The Permanent Way - Oxford Playhouse - May 2004
The Pirates of Penzance - April 2005
The Rape of Creativity - Modern Art Oxford - April, 2003
The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
The If Path - Pegasus Theatre - March 2003
The Cherry Orchard - The Oxford Playhouse - July 2003
The Tempest - Creation Theatre Company - July 2003
Theodora - The New Theatre - December 2003
This One's for the Girls - September 2004
Three Sisters - Oxford Playhouse - March 2004
Turn Of The Screw (The) - February 2004
Two - The Burton Taylor - March 2005
Two Gentlemen of Verona - Wadham College - July 2003
Twelfth Night - Headington Hill Park - June 2003
Twelfth Night - OFS - December 2004

U
Under My Skin - February 2004

V
Vagina Monologues - The Oxford Playhouse - February 2003
The Voice - The BT - February 2005

W
Washed Away - The Pegasus Theatre - March 2004
Way Of The World (The) - April 2004
Why The Whales Came - Oxford Playhouse - June 2003
Winter's Tale (The) - The Playhouse - May 2005
Woman In Mind - BT - February 2005

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Y
Young Media Art - Banbury Museum - May-June 2003

Z

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39 steps (The) - The Playhouse - July 2005

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