http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/arts/theatre/ The Oxford Times /leisure/arts/theatre/ en-gb Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:24:37 +0100 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:24:37 +0100 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/arts/theatre/rssterms/ M6 nvincent@newsquest.co.uk (Nigel Vincent) webmaster@digitalmedia.newsquest.co.uk (Tim Joy) http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/resources/images/727338/?type=rsslogo http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/arts/theatre/ http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/arts/theatre/4469134.Oxford_Shakespeare_Company__Romeo_and_Juliet/?ref=rss GILES WOODFORDE on a Romeo and Juliet production set and performed in Oxford Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0100 e8bfc2b3dfecf7df8891b20f81796072 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/arts/theatre/4469155.Private_Fears_in_Public_Places__Royal___Derngate__Northampton/?ref=rss The Royal & Derngate continues its festival celebrating the 70th birthday of Sir Alan Ayckbourn with a welcome revival of his touching – and a tad depressing – Private Fears in Public Places, written in 2004. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:13:00 +0100 50ac48e0611ce13b51889cde8f5c081d http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/arts/theatre/4469146.Spider_s_Web__Oxford_Playhouse/?ref=rss The Agatha Christie Theatre Company exists to promote and tour those works by The First Lady of Crime that have been adapted, or specifically created, for the theatre. Last year, the Playhouse hosted a splendid version of And Then There Were None, where the body count mounts in a plot which, though creaky, holds the interest. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:11:13 +0100 aa326dc97a91ccb1914094929770c07d http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/arts/theatre/4458297.Horrible_Histories__New_Theatre/?ref=rss HELEN PEACOCKE previews the stage adaptation of two of Terry Deary’s Horrible Histories in Oxford next week Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:22:20 +0100 4264fae28209135433d153a665b7960c http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/arts/theatre/4458288.Preview__Henley_Festival_2009/?ref=rss NICOLA LISLE looks at some of the main attractions of this year’s Henley Festival Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:20:23 +0100 ac75e9fdbf7ecf1035080d3a8c17aca2 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/arts/theatre/4458420.Dancing_in_my_Dreams__OTC__touring/?ref=rss The Barn at Blackbird Leys was a new venue to me, but with its rustic legacy and up-to-date facilities, it made a perfect setting for Oxfordshire Theatre Company’s new production, Dancing In My Dreams, in which Karen Simpson with musical director Andrew Dodge, writer Neil Duffield and designer Laura McEwan have brought to life a poignant chapter in our history. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:42:36 +0100 478c520bfba499bdf694c01d7208e099 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/arts/theatre/4458326.Orwell__A_Celebration__Trafalgar_Studios__London/?ref=rss ‘Orwellian’ needs something of a refit. The overused and abused adjective is rarely employed except to qualify the (supposed) ‘nightmares’ of our security-paranoid age. Really, though, in almost all circumstances, nightmarish or merely discomforting, ‘Orwellian’ ought just to mean ‘exceptionally prescient’. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:26:52 +0100 ab3be7784ae08dcd6cd5c8814851f5df http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/arts/theatre/4458308.The_Merchant_of_Venice__Propeller__The_Oxford_Playhouse/?ref=rss The leafy delights of an Athenian wood with its fairy denizens were swapped for the dank and depressing atmosphere of a jail as Propeller followed its production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with a second Shakespeare play performed last week at the Playhouse in very different style. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:23:34 +0100 d3de3d2115b0832b434e76f1e94fd04f http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/arts/theatre/4458291.Gaslight__Tomahawk_Theatre_Company__North_Wall_and_Kenton_Theatre__Henley/?ref=rss While Patrick Hamilton’s excellent novels provide an uncomfortably accurate picture of life as it was led (by rackety characters such as himself at least) in the first half of the last century, his much-better-known stage plays, Rope and Gaslight, possess plots that stretch credibility to breaking point and beyond. They remain first-class entertainment, however, as professional revivals demonstrated to my satisfaction two years ago – Rope at the Watermill Theatre, Gaslight at the Old Vic. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:21:03 +0100 4be1ea09b0892b0133708d45c48a03b1 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/arts/theatre/4458236.Shappi_Khorsandi__The_North_Wall/?ref=rss Timing is everything in comedy. Obviously it’s a great pity that current events made Iranian-born Shappi Khorsandi’s appearance so topical. But then she has been advancing from the horizons of stand-up rapidly to the point that she’s everywhere: a national newspaper interview on the day of the show, with Michael McIntyre on TV the previous evening and a scheduled outing with Jonathan Ross this week. She was on Have I Got News For You recently and will take her show to the Edinburgh Fringe. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:12:29 +0100 669de4427df09b9cdfe447748b069678