1806. It was cold. It was dark. It was almost certainly snowing… Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and their beloved sister, Lotte travel into deepest Bavaria. They are assembling what will become the greatest collection of fairy tales ever published.
But now reality and fantasy are colliding and the family Grimm find themselves trapped in a twisted fantasy world of their own fairy tales. Are the hapless heroes in grave danger? Yes. From what? We can’t tell you. Will they make it back alive? We hope so.
Having previously thrilled audiences with hit shows Is That A Bolt In Your Neck? and You Don’t Need To Know That!, Gonzo Moose are back with a comedy fairy tale adventure bursting with physical comedy, absurd jokes and magical illusion.
Featuring special guest appearances from Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Tom Thumb, Little Red Riding Hood and Rumplestiltskin… subject to their availability.
There will be a post show talk after the matinee on Saturday 10th December.
Christmas is about feasting and you can start in the cafe with Hansel and Gretel gingerbread folk along with lots of other show character snacks!
Check out the reviews…
“No opportunity for laughs of all kinds is wasted: not a second passes without a gag, verbal or visual, blatant or sly. This is seriously talented comic inventiveness, and pure joy from start to finish. Do not miss any chance to see it. “(John Christopher Wood – Venue)
Ticket Competition
We are giving away a family ticket (worth £20) to see Grimm and Grimmer at the Pegasus Theatre. This competition has ended.
Performances:
Friday, December 9, 7pm
Saturday, December 10, 1.30pm & 7pm
Sunday, December 11, 1.30pm & 7pm
Tuesday, December 13, 1.30pm & 7pm
Wednesday, December 14, 1.30pm & 7pm
Thursday, December 15, 1.30pm & 7pm
Friday, December 16, 7pm
Saturday, December 17, 1.30pm & 7pm
Sunday, December 18, 1.30pm & 7pm
Tuesday, December 20, 1.30pm & 7pm
Wednesday, December 21, 1.30pm & 7pm
Thursday, December 22, 1.30pm & 7pm
Friday, December 23, 1.30pm & 7pm
Saturday, December 24, 1.30pm
Monday, December 26, 7pm
Tuesday, December 27, 7pm
Wednesday, December 28, 7pm
Thursday, December 29, 7pm
Friday, December 30, 7pm
Tue 13 December, 8pm
Old Boot Factory
102-104 St Mary’s Road
Cowley, Oxford OX4 1QD
Kate Tempest - fresh from a sell out tour with Billy Bragg graces the Hammer & Tongue stage, this time at the terrific "pop-up" venue The Old Boot Factory on St Mary's Road just off of the Cowley Road.
Kate is an exciting performer who has been elating audiences world over receiving standing ovations and massive critical acclaim. This year she signed a record deal and has been stomping all over the hip hop and spoken word worlds. She's received plaudits from those predisposed to the appreciation of high brow literature as well as those who love a drunken riot of a gig.
Also we have the stunning Dead Poets who last summer became an Edinburgh hit with their show about being a hip hop artist and an English teacher.
There will be the Open Poetry Slam, get there early to guarantee a place.
Lincoln Center Theater production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific
Directed by Bartlett Sher
Starring:
Samantha Womack
Jason Howard – 6-20 December
Paulo Szot – 21-31 December
Oxford New Theatre Wednesday 07 - Saturday 31 December
Winner of 7 Tony Awards
This breathtaking and lavish Lincoln Center Theater production reinvented Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical. Sweeping the 2008 Tony Awards, playing for two years to sold-out houses on Broadway and televised across America, this smash hit has enchanted London audiences, selling out at London's Barbican in the summer and receiving huge critical acclaim.
With a cast and a live orchestra of 50, this international landmark production, brought to you by the producers of West Side Story and Guys & Dolls goes on tour for a strictly limited time.
Metropolitan Opera Director and Winner of the Tony Award for Best Director, Bartlett Sher, directs a stellar cast which includes two of the original Broadway stars: Internationally renowned Welsh baritone Jason Howard, alongside Tony Award nominated Loretta Ables Sayre as 'Bloody Mary'. Plus British musical theatre star Samantha Womack.
Considered one of the finest musicals ever written, the score includes Some Enchanted Evening, I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair and There Is Nothin' Like a Dame. Don't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to witness this stunning production of one of the greatest musicals of all time.
Ticket Competition
We are giving away TWO PAIRS of tickets to the performance on Wednesday, 21st December, which is the debut evening performance of Paulo Szot. This competition has ended.
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We are giving away twenty Wave Cards! This competition has ended.
From 26 November 2011 the Ashmolean welcomes visitors to the new galleries of Ancient Egypt and Nubia (present-day Sudan). Following the success of the Museum’s new building which opened in 2009, this second phase of major redevelopment will redisplay the world-renowned Egyptian collections and exhibit objects that have been in storage for decades, more than doubling the number of mummies and coffins on display. The new galleries will take visitors on a chronological journey covering more than 5000 years of human occupation of the Nile Valley.
This historic £5 million project has received lead support from Lord Sainsbury’s Linbury Trust, along with the Selz Foundation and other trusts, foundations and individuals. Designed by Rick Mather Architects, the new galleries will show the collections under the broad themes: Egypt at its Origins; Dynastic Egypt and Nubia; Life after Death in Ancient Egypt; The Amarna ‘Revolution’; Egypt in the Age of Empires; and Egypt meets Greece and Rome.
The Ashmolean is home to some of the finest Egyptian collections in the world, with Predynastic and Protodynastic material unrivalled outside Cairo. With new lighting, showcases, and state-of-the-art facilities, the project will complete the Museum’s new Ancient World Floor spanning the world’s great ancient civilisations from Egypt and Nubia, the Near East, Greece and Rome, to India, China and Japan.
