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Oxford Theatre listings, reviews, times, ticket and theatre information
for all your favourite shows at Oxford Theatres.
New
Theatre Oxford
George Street, Oxford OX1 2AG. Tel: 0844
847 1585 www.newtheatreoxford.org.uk Tickets:
Phone, go online or visit
the box office, situated
on George Street, Oxford.
Oxfordshire Gang Show
Tuesday
9th - Saturday 13th March: The Oxford Gang Show
is a family variety show performed by young people in
Scouting and Guiding from the county of Oxfordshire.
Gang show gives these 200+ young people the opportunity
to develop the skills required to put on a show in a
professional theatre. Come along and see how talented
these young people are and what they have achieved. Tickets: £10.60.
Times: Tues-Fri 7.15pm, Sat 7pn. Sat Mat 2pm.
Jimmy Carr - Rapier
Wit
Thursday
18th March: A heady mix of artistic integrity,
loyalty and greed has put Jimmy back on the road. If
you only see one comedy show this year… what’s the matter
with you? Get out more. A ‘rapier’ is the long sword
of a gentleman. ‘Rapier wit’ is defined as clever, quick,
intelligent humor.
Please note, Jimmy Carr doesn’t have ‘the long sword of
a gentleman’ and even if you like him, ‘clever, quick and
intelligent’ is a bit of a stretch. Tickets: £28.00
Times: 8pm
Ricky Tomlinson's Laughter
Show
Friday
19th March: Ricky Tomlinson hosts as his character
Jim Royle (BBC TV's Royle Family). He opens the show
with hilarious true anecdotes and gags, and is on and
off stage all night. With Ricky on the show will be Tony
Barton (Coronation Street & Emmerdale), Eddie Archer
(The Comedians) and the comedy show band, Black Onyx
(Rock with laughter). This is a night of comedy with
a Capital C... something in these gloomy times not to
be missed. Performance: 7:30pm
Tickets: £19.50.
Childish Things 6
Saturday
20th March:Having raised over £38,000 at Childish
Things 5, Helen and Douglas House are returning in 2010.
With previous casts including Stephen Fry, Rowan Atkinson,
Jo Brand, Jimmy Carr, Jude Law, Jeremy Clarkson and Bill
Bailey, this is set to be a night like no other! 2010
Line Up Starring Rob Brydon and Out of the Blue - More
names to be announced soon! Tickets: £19.50
Times: 7:30pm
Ricky Gervais
Wednesday
24th and Thursday 25th March: In the last year,
as well as starring in his first Hollywood feature film
– Ghost Town, performing multiple nights to sell out
audiences at The Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles and The
Madison Square Gardens in New York, creating the most
downloaded audiobook series in the world, stealing the
show at The Emmy's and The Golden Globes, writing, producing,
directing and starring in his second feature film – This
Side Of The Truth, appearing in Sesame Street, recording
an HBO special of his live show ‘Out Of England’ being
asked to host the Oscars and releasing another book in
the award winning, million selling Flanimal series which
is now being made into a Hollywood movie, Ricky Gervais
has written a brand new live show called Science. He
hopes it will get the record for the fastest selling
stand up show of all time (And guess who currently holds
that record). Tickets: £36.25
Times: 7:30pm.
Thursday
4th March: Current poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy
wrote the best-selling collection of poems, The World’s
Wife, imagining the perspective of the wives of famous
men through the ages, from Mrs Faust, to Frau Freud,
Queen Kong and Mrs Midas. This one woman show brings
those characters to the stage, slicing through history
and myth, and laced with dark humour and wit. Tickets: £13, £11.50
(concs), £10.50 (members) Times: 7.30pm
Moon Fool
Thursday
11th March: Deep in the heart of the forest a
King and Queen fall in and out of love, and a Fool tries
to lead them astray. Together, they create a heady confusion,
which changes the course of one hot summer’s night. Inspired
by A Midsummer Night’s Dream, this brilliant play uses
new and original text. Three performers transform into
countless different characters in this very lively show. Tickets: £14, £12.50
(concs), £11.50 (members), £48 (family) Times: 7.30pm
Loving April
Sunday
21st March: Loving April is a love story adapted
by Giles Croft from the novel by Carnegie Medal Winning
writer Melvyn Burgess. It tells the tale of a young woman
trapped in a world of silence in the strictly moral world
of 1920s England. April spends most of her time down
at the nearby river with the swans in a world of her
own. However, all this changes when beautiful Barbara
Piggot and her son Tony arrive from London. The pair
has been cast aside by the world of privilege and power,
and it is April who then teaches them how to survive…until
Tony falls in love. Tickets: £14, £12.50
(concs), £11.50 (members) Times: 7.00pm
Alfie
Sunday
28th March: Made famous in the classic movie starring
Michael Caine and more recently in the remake with Jude
Law, Alfie is the brilliant original stage play about
a young man with an overwhelming desire for the ladies.
Bill Naughton’s classic comedy drama features a cast
of five multi- talented actor-musicians, live music,
quick-fire comedy and a story that is sometimes hard-hitting. Tickets: £14, £12.50
(concs), £11.50 (members) Times: 7.00pm
Hardeep Singh Kohli
Friday
9th April: Grab a seat and tuck in as a guest
of Hardeep Singh Kohli. Celebrated broadcaster, raconteur,
writer and cook, Hardeep combines comedy with inventive
cuisine on-stage. He will demonstrate recipes while recounting
real-life anecdotes with his trade mark dry sense of
humour. The show debuted at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe
Festival, where it played to sell-out audiences and sold
over 5,000 tickets. Tickets: £14, £12.50
(concs), £11.50 (members) Times: 8.00pm
North
Wall Arts Centre
South Parade, Summertown, Oxford
OX2 7NN. Tel: 01865 319450 www.thenorthwall.com
Cling
To My Ivy Thursday 25th -
Friday 26th March: Rivka wants the perfect
wedding. She has the man, the dress, the wig
and two weeks to go. But when doubt is cast
on her wig, everything starts to unravel and
Rivka finds herself far from home up a tree
and caught up in the eviction of an anti-road
protest, not knowing whether she’ll be able
to go back to where she came from, or whether
she wants to go back at all.
‘This is that genuinely rare beast, a popular
comedy with heart, brains and the stomach to
make some difficult choices.’ Lyn Gardiner,
The Guardian Performance:
8pm. Tickets: £10 - £12.
Loving
April Thursday 1st April: Adapted
by Giles Croft from the novel by Melvin Burgess.
April spends her time among the wild swans
on the nearby river and, most importantly,
keeping away from the boys in the village.
But all that changes when beautiful Barbara
Piggott arrives from London with Tony, her
well-educated son. Cast aside by a world of
privilege and power, it is April who teaches
them how to survive. That is until Tony falls
in love…
‘First class theatre’ – The Oxford Times Tickets: £10
Times: 8pm.
Crush Friday 9th April: Double
Fringe First award winner Paul Charlton’s new play
is an acutely observed insight into modern relationships,
seducing audiences with sharp humour and digging
out the darkness in our fascination with online
gambling and socialising.
Sam loves Anna, football and gambling. But when
the spark disappears, how much is he prepared to
risk in the chase to recapture the thrill? Crush
examines a loving but dysfunctional relationship
against the backdrop of individual and collective
obsessions- storytelling at its best.
‘A heart-tugging look at the dangers of temptation,
Facebook fantasy and letting yourself go in a powerful
new piece by Paul Charlton
****Fringe Review Tickets: £10 - £12. Times: 8pm.
Romeo
and Juliet Tuesday 16th June: The
Oxford Shakespeare Company perform the classic William
Shakespeare play “Romeo and Juliet” (directed by Guy Retallack) Tickets: See website
Oxford
Playhouse
11-12 Beaumont Street, Oxford
OX1 2LW. Tel: 01865 305305 www.oxfordplayhouse.com Tickets: Phone,
go online or visit the box office, situated
on Beaumont Street, Oxford.
Hugh Hughes in…360
Wednesday
3rd March: It's been over two years since Hugh
Hughes' last visit to Oxford Playhouse. Since then, the
emerging Welsh artist has travelled across the world
to perform in Colombia, Russia, Singapore, the USA and
a sell-out run at the iconic Sydney Opera House. Following
award-winning success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe,
Hugh heads back to Oxford for one night only and invites
you into his wonderful world to share an evening of delightfully
comic stories of friendship, mountains and the excitement
of building a dam.
Performance: 7.30pm. Tickets: £14.00.
Forever in Your Debt
Thurday
4th March: A band rolls into town. Teetering
on the edge of financial ruin, these women's twelve heart-stopping
stories weave a cautionary tale that pulls on our heartstrings,
pricks our conscience, and prods the old pathos bone.
This gang of recession renegades might not be able to
pay the bill but they can still top it. Even as the bailiff
repossesses their instruments, they'll play to the last
note, sing for their supper and if anyone has a penny
to keep the lights on, put it in the meter. Tickets: £12-£19
Times: 7.30pm.
Charlie and Lola's
Best Bestest Play
Friday
5th - Sunday 7th March: Don't miss everyone's
favourite brother and sister, Charlie and Lola, in their
extremely everso wonderful stage show! The stars of the
hit BBC TV series and books by Lauren Child are brought
to life by a magical mix of puppets and music.Will Lola
ever tidy her messy room? Will Charlie get Lola to sleep,
even though she is not sleepy and will not go to bed?
Tickets: Adults £10.50, Child £8.50. Times: See website.
The Ministry of Fear
Tuesday
16th - Saturday 20th March: When Arthur Rowe bumbles
into a garden fête during the Blitz he's haunted by his
past and innocent of his future. But from the moment
he enters Mrs Bellair's fortune teller's tent he trips
into a hell of corruption and betrayal where he's way,
way out of his depth. With a powerful whiff of Hitchcock
and echoes of film noir classic The Third Man, The Ministry
of Fear is both a taut espionage thriller and unnerving
portrait of a mind in free fall.
Tickets: £15-£24 Times: 7.30pm Daily, Fri 8pm, Sat Mat
2.30pm.
Hedda Gabler
Monday
29th March - Saturday 3rd April: Returning from
her honeymoon and already bored with her marriage, Hedda
finds herself caught between the brilliant but dissolute
Eilert Loevborg and the clutches of the predatory Judge
Brack. As a shocking path of destruction unfolds, there
can be only one outcome... The lead role is taken by
international star of stage and screen, Rosamund Pike.
As one of our leading actresses she is perhaps best known
for her film portrayals of Bond villainess Miranda Frost
in Die Another Day and Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice.
Tickets: £15.50-£27. Times: 7.30pm Daily, Fri 8pm, Sat
Mat 2.30pm.
Tuesday
2nd - Saturday 6th March: Federico Garcia Lorca's
Blood Wedding in translation by Carmen Zapata and Michael
Dewell Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding in translation by
Carmen Zapata and Michael Dewell When a bride runs away
from a former lover on the very day of her wedding, it
leads to inevitable double tragedy.
Set to original music, this production brings Lorca's passionate
and intensely lyrical drama to life, a tale of honour,
grief and rebellion againts the suffocating constraints
of a harsh rural Andalusian existence. Tickets: £11.10
Times: 7:30pm
Shakespeare's Henry
IV
Tuesday
16th - Saturday 20th March: A new adaptation of
Shakespeare's great history plays- two and a half hours
of fast paced action. Kings and nobles, rogues and vagabonds,
princes and paupers all collide in a performance of energy
and vitality. Oxford Triptych theatre returns once again
to the OFS Studio with actors drawn from all over Oxfordshire
to present a new-minted classic. Tickets: £11.10
Times: 7:30pm daily, Sat Mat 2pm.
