Category: Reviews
Banbury Cross Players’ 70th Birthday Party
A page from Four Shires Magazine The following page was published in Four Shires magazine in July 2015 for Banbury Cross Players’ 70th Birthday Party, part of our Anniversary celebrations at Wroxton House Hotel. Please select/click/tap an image to see more. Sadly Four Shires Magazine closed in January 2020. It will be missed. See what…
British All-Winners Drama Festival 2019
Our success with Contractions by Mike Bartlett at Lighthorne qualified Banbury Cross Players to enter the British All-Winners Drama Festival. The Rhoda McGaw Theatre in Woking was the venue for the festival this year.
Nell Gwynn Review by Lance Bassett
Never ceasing to be amazed by Banbury Cross Players’ eclectic choice of plays, I approached their latest production of Nell Gwynn with some trepidation. I had never heard of the piece and apart from the publicity blurb describing ‘A bawdy romp’ I was clueless. Of course I needn’t have worried, BCP came through again with…
GamePlan Review by Lance Bassett
GamePlan, the second play of the BCP season, is written by Alan Ayckbourn, and it shows. This is a funny play, although as many Ayckbourn productions do, it does descend into darker issues in the second act. The plot however is simple. Sixteen-year-old Sorrel enters the murky world of prostitution in order to alleviate the…
Review of My Boy Jack by Am Dram Man
The following review by Am Dram Man Lance Bassett for Oxford Mail. My Boy Jack by David Haig – Banbury Cross Players The Mill, Banbury 7th -10th February 2018 Am Dram Man Having seen David Haig’s My Boy Jack on television a couple of weeks ago, I was intrigued how BCP would present this poignant…
Sex, Drugs Rick ‘n’ Noel Reviews
Review Written by Maurice Smith, The Loft, Leamington Spa – Jul 06 When I decided to come and see BCP’s production of Sex, Drugs and Rick and Noel, I was not sure which version I would see. There is a play version and a musical version. Or it would be more correct to say a…
Aladdin Review January 2006
For a number of years one or two decades ago it seemed to have become unfashionable to put on a Pantomime by Amateur Companies. The BCP started to have ’Christmas’ children’s plays instead – such as: ’Pinocchio’, ’The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’, ’Peter Pan’ and ’Toad of ToadHall’. The general public who wanted…
Review by Lance Bassett – February 2022
“Out of Order” is the second production in Banbury Cross Players’ 2021/2022 season and is a typical Ray Cooney farce. Much of Mr Cooney’s work could be the same script but with just a change of title. Having said that I love them, and BCP’s adaptation of this comedy is up to their usual high…