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Oxford Playhouse
Beaumont Street
Oxford
OX1 2LW
Box Office: 01865 305305
Administration: 01865 305300
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...