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Oxford Playhouse
Beaumont Street
Oxford
OX1 2LW
Box Office: 01865 305305
Administration: 01865 305300
BETTY BLUE EYES at the Oxford Playhouse
"A wonderfully silly piece of theatre, Betty Blue Eyes could only have been invented by Alan Bennett.... I always enjoy a musical, and this one is very catchy, hitting all the right notes (pun intended) with the audience...
STAND – Oxford Playhouse plays out
"It’s a very simple set up: six actors sit in a row on the stage in West Oxford Community Centre on Botley Road and tell the stories of six members of our community...It was a privilege to be a witness to these persona...
‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE at Oxford Playhouse
To experience Cheek By Jowl’s ‘TIS PITY SHE'S A WHORE you must immerse yourself in the excess and madness, and hold on for dear life until you are released two hours later. Exhausting and exhilarating, it grabs you b...
AN AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY LARK at the Oxford Playhouse
... is a new play, written for the World War One centenary. The title, taken from Philip Larkin’s poem MCMXIV, evokes the prevalent frivolous feeling among young men as they signed up for war in 1914, not realising tha...
TRANSLATIONS at the Oxford Playhouse
Brian Friel’s 1980 play Translations is a marvellous piece of writing and tonight at the Oxford Playhouse the English Touring Theatre brought the words wonderfully to life. For almost three hours, I actually felt like ...
ROBIN HOOD at the Oxford Playhouse
Like a Christmas pudding, a panto needs to have a universally agreed set of ingredients in order to be deemed a success. So how does Robin Hood do against the checklist? Pantomine dame? Check. Daniel Stockton plays Dame ...
OUT OF THE SHADOW at the Oxford Playhouse
Out of the Shadow, hosted by the Oxford Playhouse this week, is something very unique. Yes, it is a dance production, and yet, it is more than that. A vivid theatricality and poignant story-line shines through, and so to...
PUSH ME, PULL YOU at the Oxford Playhouse
As someone with dreadful coordination and balance, I have always been wildly jealous of anyone with the slightest acrobatic skill. After watching Apocalyptic Circus’s Push Me, Pull You this evening, I really want to b...
MIES JULIE at the Oxford Playhouse
“…when people turn violent, you know you’ve told the truth” Yael Farber’s Mies Julie is an adaptation of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, transplanted from a ballroom in nineteenth-century Sweden to a kitch...
THE PITMEN PAINTERS at the Oxford Playhouse
Art about the power of art has to deal with the tricky task of being inspiring without being overly worthy; of conveying a higher feeling without being pompous or patronising. Writer Lee Hall has done it before wi...
DANCING AT LUGHNASA Oxford Playhouse
The set of Royal & Derngate Northampton’s DANCING AT LUGHNASA transports the audience to another world. Birds chirp offstage, and a realistic approximation of evening sunlight bathes the set which is at once indo...
THE BLUE REMEMBER HILLS at the Oxford Playhouse
Before this evening, I had no frame of reference for Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills, unlike, it seemed, much of the audience – the older members who had watched the 1979 TV version, the group of students in t...