Portfolio Archives: Said Business School

The Merchant of Venice

7TH JULY - 1ST SEPTEMBER 2012 SAID BUSINESS SCHOOL Performed in an amphitheatre perched above the dreaming spires. Under balmy skies and starry nights, Creation Theatre’s open-air productions at Saïd are an essential part of any summer’s day in Oxford. Set against the backdrop of 1930s Italy, director Natalie Abrahami (Regent’s Park, Headlong, Young Vic)…

Antony & Cleopatra

8TH JULY - 3RD SEPTEMBER 2011 SAID BUSINESS SCHOOL Summer 2011 we brought a bit of Egypt and Rome to Oxford, with a powerful performance of Shakespeare’s passionate historical love story, Antony & Cleopatra. Turning the Said Business School’s atmospheric Amphitheatre into the crumbling remains of fallen empire, Shakespeare’s grown up love story played out…

Romeo and Juliet

9TH JULY - 4TH SEPTEMBER 2010 SAID BUSINESS SCHOOL, AMPHITHEATRE Directed by Charlotte Conquest, this summer production of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece was set in a world of weathered stone, rust and gravel. The show kicked off in the courtyard of the Saïd Business School with the Capulets and Montagues fighting; skidding through the gravel at…

Twelfth Night

9TH JULY - 5TH SEPTEMBER 2009 SAID BUSINESS SCHOOL AMPHITHEATRE The amphitheatre of the Said Business School provided the stunning setting for Shakespeare’s comedy of mistaken identities. With the striking architecture of the Said Business School and innumerable beautiful sunsets creating a magnificent backdrop, and a sand-filled stage setting the scene for a shipwreck, returning…