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• Some Like It Hotter, Oxfordshire Theatre Company, touring

  Oxfordshire Theatre Company’s latest production (in conjunction with the Watermill, Newbury) is a witty, fast-paced and moving reflection on the afterlife. read more

• Oedipussy: Royal&Derngate, Northampton

  Those admirable pranksters Spymonkey virtually write their own review of their new show Oedipussy in what is posted on the warning notices we pass on the way into the Royal Theatre’s auditorium. The list of perils ahead runs: “Nudity, smoke, strobe lighting, bodily mutilation (ankles, eyes), scenes of incest, rape, infanticide, suicide, pestilence and animal sacrifice.” read more

• You're Not Like Other Girls Chrissy: The Rotunda, Iffley

  On January 31, those lucky enough to get tickets to The Rotunda saw the first sell-out performance in a new tour of You’re Not Like the Other Girls Chrissy, a one-woman show by Caroline Horton. read more

• Joan Bakewell: Oxford Playhouse

  ‘Evenings with . . .” can be desultory or pompous affairs — self-serving and often self-demeaning. Friday’s Playhouse event was never going to be like that: the guest was writer and broadcaster Joan Bakewell, and a good-sized audience enjoyed 75 minutes of sensible insight, wise counsel and memories of an impressive career. read more

• 'Tis Pity She's a Whore: Oxford Playhouse

  The Grand Guignol climax to John Ford’s Caroline revenge tragedy ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore comes so close to ‘designer violence’ as sometimes to provoke more laughter than fear from those watching. read more

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