Oxford’s largest producing theatre company presents a programme of stunning shows at extraordinary venues across Oxford.
The festival opens with Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing in Oxford Castleyard, followed by a magical production of another Shakespeare favourite – A Midsummer Night’s Dream – in promenade around Headington Hill Park. Also not to be missed is a brand new one man show incorporating the best of the Bard’s famous speeches, Shakespeare’s Saints and Sinners and soon to be announced is a family show in Oxford Castle Garden which promises to be unforgettable.

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Creation will also offer an exciting programme of drama workshops for children and young people this summer holiday.

Racial and political tensions are high in the Venice council estate, where native British merchants mix uneasily with a financially strong ethnic community. Suspicion lingers in the hearts of the merchants, whilst an insecurity and resentment that cannot be soothed by political concessions, still exists in their neighbours.

Based on eyewitness accounts, The Audacity Of Ideas is a dramatisation of the last two weeks in the magnificent Palace Of Versailles before the French Revolution. Student production.

A vaudeville review about those few who have taken a shot at a President of the United States. Student production.

Set on the eve of the First World War, Heartbreak House is Shaw’s playful yet biting critique of British society as it blithely sinks towards disaster. Student production.

The Red Ladies are on their way. Who are they and what do they want? Do their stilletos pose a threat to national security? Be vigilant. Eighteen women, identically dressed, clandestine and possibly dangerous, will descend on the city. Rendezvous with them at their makeshift headquarters where they may reveal their true identities.

DV8’s Artistic Director Lloyd Newson leads a multi-ethnic cast in a poetic but unflinching exploration of tolerance, intolerance, religion and sexuality.
This new show is based on hundreds of hours of audio interviews collected throughout the UK with people directly affected by these issues. In a production incorporating dance, text, documentary, animation and film, twenty years on, DV8 still refuses to be defined.

The world is a saddening mess, of unfathomable complexity and the simplest cruelty. Yet, rather than raging or weeping, most of us still manage to eat snacks, do crosswords and occasionally wash.
But what if, what if we heave our compassion from wherever it’s buried and with courage enough to seem naïve or under informed or oblivious to futility, we reach for something better. Something more engaged, more humane and less snack based.

A version by Frank McGuinness of Henrik Ibsen’s original.
Set as a picture of 1950s domestic bliss, overturned family traditions and values come to the fore as one happy family realises life will never be the same again.

Simon Yates first became known as the man who cut the rope holding his friend and climbing partner Joe Simpson during their descent from Peru's Siula Grande in 1985, a story immortalised in the film Touching the Void. Simon's dry wit, philosophical approach and stunning images will transport the audience to some of the highest and most treacherous peaks in the world, giving a real insight into the mountain environment and the extreme mental and physical challenge of climbing.

Sometimes in a dark and daft world where no one can be trusted, a man needs to go to any lengths to control a woman.

Just what is it about the ravishing heiress Grace Harkaway that attracts the attentions of both the ageing, self-deluded dandy Sir Harcourt Courtly and his rakish son Charles?
Destined to be married for her money, Grace professes indifference to her fate. Her resolve to remain aloof begins to waiver, however, when Charles arrives at her country estate in the guise of "Augustus Hamilton". Grace colludes with her cousin, the lusty Lady Gay Spanker, who undertakes to distract a seasoned suitor, leaving Grace free to pursue the object of her desire.