A complex scientific subject matter combined with theological debate was never going to be my first choice for a theatre experience. I did want to support this first venture of The Oxford Saturday Matinee Club but 'Collider' proved to be a very wordy piece and I often found it hard to believe in the ‘dialogue’ as much more than the four characters making speeches sometimes at rather than to each other or the audience. However, although it might not have been tremendous theatre and was over long (I was definitely clock watching towards the end), it featured some strong performances, especially from Steve Hay. The venue and staging did the play no favours. It was performed in the round but, with no raked audience seating, when actors sat down the sight lines were unforgiving. The friends who went with me (both of whom had stronger grasps of physics than me and one of whom is a devout Catholic) enjoyed the play far more than I did and it provoked some debate and discussion between them afterwards. They both declared it to be very good. I was unconvinced. The so-called vaudeville interludes did little to lift this from being effectively a difficult radio discourse and I may not know much about burlesque but found those elements some of the weakest. Hopefully The Oxford Saturday Matinee Club will provide greater entertainment with its future pieces. This one failed to move me and most of the information contained was too complex for me to retain on a Saturday afternoon.