What's in the Theatre this week? (March 7-13)

Oxford Playhouse:

The Clean House - Worlds collide in one painfully clean living room as four men and one woman confront the mess and beauty of their own lives. Lane has got everything, a successful surgeon for a husband and her own busy career as a doctor, but all she wants is a clean house. Unfortunately Matilde, her young cleaner from Brazil, hates to clean, instead preferring to dream up the perfect joke. Lane's sister Virginia loves to clean and comes to an arrangement with Matilde. Meanwhile, Lane's husband Charles becomes enchanted by one of his patients, the free-spirited Ana who cast a surreal spell over the clean house.

Tac au Tac Dance Company - An evening of dance and live music from local young dancers.
Part of Dancin' Oxford 2008.

Our Friends in the North - Spanning two decades, this magnificent play sees the changing world through the hopes and temptations of four young people from Newcastle whose lives take very different paths.

Old Fire Station:

Mort - Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job. But when Mort is left in charge for an evening, he allows his heart to rule his head and soon the whole of causality and the future of the Discworld itself, are at risk. Along the way, Mort encounters not only Death's adopted daughter, Isabell - who has been 16 for 35 years - and his mysterious manservant Albert - whose cooking can harden an artery at ten paces - but also an incompetent wizard with a talking doorknocker and a beautiful, but rather bad-tempered and dead, princess. He also, of course, meets Death.

As You Like It - Arguably Shakespeare's most beautiful comedy, As You Like It is a play of disguise and ambiguity - a hymn to the transformational power of love. Set in a forest of enchantment and discovery, desires and needs are explored and emotional truths finally uncovered.

Burton Taylor Studio:

True West - By Sam Shepard. LA, 1981. Austin's in town to write a movie, when brother Lee blows in from the desert for some light robbery. Turns out he steals Austin's producer, and in 24 hours of savage boozing, Shepard's power-house pair go from grand theft toaster to fatal violence and everything in between.

24/7/52 - Bill Aitchison - by Bill Aitchison in collaboration with Boris Kahnert and James Dunn. 24/7/52 is a performance about time: how we experience it and how we tell it. A kaleidoscope of a show that walks a fine line between minimalism and vaudeville, 24/7/52 is a game that plunges headfirst into certain failure producing meticulously structured chaos that calls upon multi-tasking ad absurdum to create the relentlessness that is 24/7/52.

Hanging Hooke - Christopher Wren loved him and Isaac Newton loathed him. This genius of the 17th Century provoked intense loyalty, controversy, jealousy and hatred. But was "England's Leonardo" buried by another Da Vinci plot? In hot-blooded times, passions explode. History is on trial. Robert Hooke - your time has come.

New Theatre:

Swan Lake - Birmingham Royal Ballet - Out hunting, Prince Siegfried watches in astonishment as a swan changes into a beautiful Princess. She is Odette, who, under the evil Von Rothbart's spell, spends her days as a swan, returning to human form as night falls. Only Siegfried's love - that of someone who has never loved before - has the power to break the evil spell. But when the Prince is tricked into declaring himself to Von Rothbart's daughter Odile, magically disguised as Odette, all hope appears lost.

Oxford Gang Show - The Oxford Gang Show is a variety show, performed by members of the Scout Association and Girl Guiding UK within Oxfordshire at the New Theatre, Oxford. The show provides the cast with the opportunity to learn & develop theatre skills with the reward of performing on one of the largest professional stages in the UK. The show is packed full of fun, laugher & excitement and is suitable for all the family. Why not come along and see the talent of the young people of Oxfordshire?

Pegasus Theatre:

Ain't Misbehavin' The Fats Waller Musical Show - Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company presents AINT MISBEHAVIN a sexy, sultry, sassy musical show that boasts a live jazz trio and five fabulous vocalists strummin, struttin, and singing the songs made famous by the outrageously prodigious King of Swing, the fabulous Thomas Fats Waller. A prestigious team includes concert pianist Dominic Harlan & singers that have recently performed in West End productions of Carmen Jones, The Lion King and Miss Saigon.

College Theatre:

Oxford Comedy Deathmatch - Pilch Theatre, Jowett Walk.
It's the perfect pre-bop entertainment for the end of term, and there is a bar on the premises with alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. So come along and share in the excitement!

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