MYTHMAKING and BRITISH VOGUE on 28th June.
As part of the Offbeat Festival, a local group of writers and creators have put on an exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum. The beauty of this idea is that this could be done at any museum across the country, and could be done by anyone with an imagination.
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★★★★☆ 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).
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★★★☆☆ Right from the start there is a sense of fun, and of provocative social comment, too. On entering, the audience is greeted by members of the cast who hand out leaflets about a community project.
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★★★☆☆ This play, original written and performed in 2013, tells the story of four iconic, black, American men who meet in a hotel room one night in 1964. There to celebrate the victory of the young Mohammed Ali, then Cassius Clay, were nation of Islam leader Malcolm X, singer and record producer Sam Cooke, sportsman Jim Brown and the celebrated boxer himself; newly crowned heavyweight champion of the world.
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★★★★★ Dead Dog is a story of hypocrisy, as the swaggering and corrupt upper echelons of society persecute the crimes of the commoners whilst going unpunished themselves. . . .The themes are highly relevant now with its searing contempt for a broken society and those exploiting their way to the top.
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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’.
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