★★★★★ This was billed as an operatic monodrama for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble. Frida Kahlo, as most of us know, was a Mexican artist who painted many self-portraits, ‘I paint myself because I am often alone and because I am the subject I know best’.

★★★★☆ We travel around the centre of Oxford accompanied by appropriately themed songs like TNT, (AC/DC) and Shot through the Heart (Bon Jovi). SPOILER ALERT – the bus does manage to stop without the bomb exploding and our detective does solve the crime in the end (although I won’t tell you who did it).

Mistero Buffo (a comical mystery play) was first performed by Dario Fo himself in 1969 and he performed it across Europe, Canada and Latin America for thirty years. In 1977, the Vatican denounced its broadcast as ‘the most blasphemous show in the history of television’.

FRIDA (World Premiere) on 3rd July.

This was billed as an operatic monodrama for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble. Frida Kahlo, as most of us know, was a Mexican artist who painted many self-portraits, ‘I paint myself because I am often alone and because I am the subject I know best’.