The Oxford Playhouse:
Our Country's Good -
Australia, 1789. A young lieutenant prepares to stage a play, facing the opposition of his colleagues, a cast of headstrong prisoners and a leading lady who is about to be hanged.
Blonde Bombshells of 1943 - The Blonde Bombshells, the most glamorous all-girl swing band in the North, loses members every time it plays a GI camp. With an important BBC job in the offing, they need new members fast! A warm witty musical play filled with live swing band performances.
Old Fire Station:
Tales From Hollywood - A fast-paced, controversial and charmingly funny story of European expatriates writing American films in the 1940's. As they fall in and out of love and adjust to American life, they explore their roles as artists and come to terms, from afar, with the political disorder of their home countries. A mix of politics, film history, and raw comic genius, this play has something for everyone.
The Hothouse - On Christmas Eve at a government psychiatric hospital, one patient is discovered dead and another has just given birth. Before long, the man in charge starts unravelling, and a conspiring staff leaves unattended the tensions simmering beneath them. Rarely performed, this riotous blend of farce and terror is roundly considered to be Pinter's most comic play.
Burton Taylor Theatre:
Diary of a Madman - by Joe Spence adapted from Gogol - Poprishchin's love-induced hallucinations steadily drive him mad. Gogol's famous and amusing short story brought to life in a fresh new adaption for the stage. A fast-paced adaption of Gogol's comic masterpiece. The tale of a hapless clerk who falls for his boss's daughter. His unrequited love drives him to hallucination and insanity.
The Enormous Space - devised by the company, based on writing by J G Ballard
A man decides never to leave his house again. As time slips away, the man wonders why he hadn't ever noticed how much space there was within his four walls....
Baby With the Bathwater - by Christopher Durang - An absurdist, hilarious and familar look at how hard it is to be a parent and how scary it is to be a child.
We Got Chickens! - Corpus Comedy Collective - Oxford's newest and best sketch comedy team combine the best of their first two shows with some brand new material for an evening of mirth, hilarity and jokes about AIDS.
New Theatre:
Peter Pan On Ice: The Russian Ice Stars - The finest company of professional skaters in the world with a line-up that includes Loulia Barsoukova, the 2000 Olympic gold medallist. Expect a magical show with exciting choreography and world class skating.
Theatre at Headington:
Forgetting Myself - Forgetting Myself tells the story of Lindy, a teenage girl who defies her mother and sneaks out late at night. Her mother goes out to find her, and is involved in a car accident. The action of the play unfolds as Lindy waits in hospital for her mother to recover. There, she encounters a mysterious stranger who takes her back in time to experience her mother’s teenage life, revealing that she and her mother are not so different after all. The stranger reveals how our perception of time, living and dying are but small elements in the grand scheme of existence.
Hamlet: Cut to the Bone - In this breathtaking performance, David Keller captures the essence of Hamlet. His one man production cuts to the heart of every character with the help of little more than a toy box and a stuffed shirt. That Keller is no ordinary Hamlet is apparent from his first appearance on stage, peeling off his mother's stockings. This vivid performance is guaranteed to hold audiences enthralled from opening scene to shocking climax. Stripped of the politics and side-shows, yet faithful to Shakespeare's vision, the plays raw passions are laid bare.
College Theatre:
Muse Monologues - Eight lives. Four voices. One city. The Oxford Muse [and the ETC] takes you into the heads of eight people living in Oxford through a series of monologues.
Have you seen where a blind woman finds beauty? Have you met a paranoid schizophrenic with a history of violence? Find out why a sixty year old didn't know who she was or how a suicidal teen is still alive, how a college porter writes his poetry or why a PPEist lives on the streets of Oxford. Muse Monologues takes you to places in Oxford you won't have been, brings you voices you won’t have heard, shows you people you won't have seen.
The Oxford Revue: Cagoule Weather - Do you ever wish you were in a Lunn Poly advert? Do you ever resent the continual low pressure? Is all this doom and gloom really starting to bobble your jumper? After last year's sell out success, the Oxford Revue return to the Moser Theatre with a bout of inclement sketches designed especially for this intemperate weather we're having. So come, wring your socks out, and get comfy.
Oxford Amnesty Lectures 07 - Incarceration and Human Rights - Sheldonian Theatre:
Oxford Amnesty Lectures invites internationally respected figures to debate the future of human rights. Lectures are open to the paying public and texts published as a book. OAL has to date donated over £100,000 to Amnesty International
Speaking this week: 31st Jan - Anne Owers: Prisons Inspection and the Protection of Human Rights
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. This is the FINAL WEEK.
Showing this week at - Radnor Hall in Salisbury, Kingsclere Village Club, and Harwell Village Hall.
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