“Caryl Churchill described Tim Crouch’s two-hander as “a play about theatre, a magic trick, a laugh and a vivid experience of grief, and it spoils you for a while for other plays”. She’s right, but An Oak Tree doesn’t so much spoil other theatre as offer a different manifestation of magic, one that doesn’t pretend to expunge the differences between art and life but draws attention to them. It circles elegantly around ideas of presence and absence, the real and the representational, doubt and certainty, even time itself.” /The Guardian
