This Week's Music (Dec22-28)

Aside from Christmas Carols, there's not much music in Oxford during the holidays. The Oxford Waits will be playing the Holywell Music Room on Saturday, December 23rd, and Charivari Agreable will perform their Christmas by Candlelight - Ringing Changes in Paris at the Holywell Music Room on Thursday, December 28th.

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What's in the Theatres this Week? (Dec 22-28)

The Oxford Playhouse:

Dick Whittington - The Panto!

A capital pantomime for young and old, with rats, a cat and streets of gold! Christmas just isn't Christmas without an Oxford Playhouse pantomime, the purrfect treat this festive season with magic, sparkle and fun for all the family.

Creation Theatre Company:

Arabian Nights - Celebrate the festive season with us as we whisk you away on a magic carpet ride to an unforgettable world of colourful characters, fantastical creatures and devious villains.

Suitable for children 5+

Old Fire Station:

A Little Christmas Night Music - brings songs by Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers and Noel Coward into an anthology which ranges from operatic hits to Victorian ballads and modern classics, - and all interspersed with some seasonally appropriate favourites.

New Theatre:

Cats - See the world's best loved musical and the memory will live forever. Enter the magical, musical world of Cats, Andrew Lloyd Webber's record breaking adaptation of T S Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. With an amazing musical score, spectacular set design, stunning costumes and breath taking choreography, Cats really is a uniquely magical musical.

Abingdon Touring Theatre:

Aesop's Fables

Their third tour is a specially commissioned adaptation of Aesop's Fables. This tour has been written to be suitable for the entire family and will combine Aesop's stories with tales from his own life.

Showing this week at - the Ashmolean Museum

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What's in the Cinema this Week? (Dec 22-28)

Opening in Oxford this week is Night at the Museum, starring Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, and Ricky Gervais. Ben Stiller stars as a security guard who accidentally releases an ancient curse in the Museum of Natural History. A wax figure of Theodore Roosevelt is the only person who can help him. The film contains comic scary moments. (PG)

Also opening this weekend is It's A Boy Girl Thing. A boy and a girl who despise one another wake up one morning to find themselves in each other’s bodies. As lifelong sworn enemies, both set out to destroy the high school reputation of the other. The film contains moderate sex references and language. (12A)

Opening at the Phoenix Cinema this week is Hollywoodland, starring Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck, and Bob Hoskins. Hollywoodland is based on a true story, the mysterious death of George Reeves, an actor who found fame as Superman on American television in the ‘50s, and who apparently committed suicide in his Hollywood Hills apartment in 1959. The film contains strong language and violence. (15)

Also at the Phoenix this week is Perfume: The Story of A Murderer starring Alan Rickman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, and Ben Whishaw. In mid-18th-century Paris, young Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Whishaw) realises he has a highly refined sense of smell and becomes an apprentice at the perfumery of Baldini (Hoffman). The art of mixing scents soon becomes his obsession, which drives him away from human company. Possessed by the idea of preserving human aromas, he murders young women whose scent turns his head. This film contains sexualised nudity and disturbing images. (15)

Opening at the Vue Cinema this week is Flags of Our Fathers, starring Ryan Phillippe, Jamie Bell, and Jesse Bradford. Based on James Bradley's book about his father, John 'Doc' Bradley, Clint Eastwood's new film revolves around the last survivor of the six soldiers who famously raised the American flag on Iwo Jima. Following the bloody battle on the Japanese Island, Bradley and his fellow flag raisers use their hero status to drum up support for the war effort in its dying weeks. Still haunted by the horrors they had witnessed, the job proves too much to take. The film contains strong language and war violence. (15)

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