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  The Oh F**k Moment was always going to be a brave idea, not just because of its title, but because it involves audience participation, and as we Brits are rather backward about coming forward, let alone spilling the beans, it seems an occupation more suited to our cousins over the pond.
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           <title>Chekhov gets an update thanks to vibrant company</title>
           
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  ‘High Art? High arse more like!” That’s how the more self-regarding aspects of the theatrical profession are described in a new version of Chekhov’s The Seagull commissioned by Headlong and the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton. “It’s lovely to spit that line out with as much vitriol as possible,” actor Alexander Cobb tells me — he delivers those cutting words in the production, which tours to the Oxford Playhouse next week. “I bumped into Henny Finch, Headlong’s producer, in the beer garden of a South London pub one night,” explains writer John Donnelly.
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           <title>Still questing for answers in Frost/Nixon</title>
           
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  Rarely does a political interview on TV make history. Many are quickly despatched to oblivion, sometimes to the relief of those concerned, no doubt. But the series of interviews between ex-President Richard Nixon and David Frost broadcast in 1977 have remained in the public eye — thanks, not least, to Peter Morgan’s play, and recent film, Frost/Nixon. In the interviews, Nixon eventually conceded that he had participated in the Watergate cover-up and lied to the world about it.
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           <title>Lucky charms of Giffords Circus</title>
           
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  Cal McCrystal can’t stay long. Once Giffords Circus’ latest show is up and running he has to jet off to the USA to work as a comedy consultant on the new Spiderman movie, but until then you’ll find him in a dusty field in Gloucestershire, where the finishing touches are being put to Lucky 13.
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           <title>Julian Clary in Oxford tonight</title>
           
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  Julian Clary may be a dangerous mixture of funny and frank, but the ‘queen of innuendo’ still has the same compulsion as all comedians to get up on stage and make people laugh. That Julian does it in his own imitable style, carving a niche for his camp, bitchy, acerbic style of humour, is all the better.
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           <title>Having a Ball on stage</title>
           
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  He is one of our best-loved stars of musical theatre, gracing the West End and the pop charts with his rich singing voice. But, reassuringly, not everything comes naturally to Michael Ball. Like everyone, this Broadway idol still has to practise.
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           <title>Preview of Life is a Dream: Oxford Playhouse</title>
           
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  Calderón de la Barca’s La Vida es sueño (Life is a Dream) is a great masterpiece of Spain’s 17th-century Golden Age of drama sometimes referred to — for its fame and importance rather than its plot — as “the Spanish Hamlet”. It is not as well known in Britain as it ought to be, though a much-lauded production four years ago at the Donmar Warehouse, starring Dominic West, helped to change that.
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           <title>James Baker on The Incredible Book Eating Boy</title>
           
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  The Incredible Book Eating Boy is the latest offering from Bootworks Theatre Collective who are taking on Oliver Jeffers’ award-winning picture book of the same name.
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           <title>Julian Glover on his role in Maurice's Jubilee at Oxford Playhouse</title>
           
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  Having made a career out of playing the most iconic baddies on earth (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Bond, Harry Potter and Dr Who to name but a few) it is therefore a surprise to find that Julian Glover is particularly gentle in real life, and a delight to interview.
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           <title>Roger McGough on his translation of Moliere's The Misanthrope</title>
           
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  For people of a certain age — and that includes the present writer — Liverpudlian Roger McGough will for ever be thought of as a pop star. He was one of the members of the trio The Scaffold — the others were Mike McGear, brother of a certain Paul McCartney, and John Gorman — who scored three big hits, including the No 1 Lily the Pink.
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           <title>Agony aunt Virginia Ironside on growing old disgracefully</title>
           
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  Growing Old Disgracefully is the perfect title for someone who took up stand-up comedy in their 60s. Growing Up At All would have been another suitable description, Virginia Ironside’s well documented battle with depression being an enormous factor in her life. Which makes her latest foray into comedy even more inspiring.
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           <title>Gareth Gates talks about his role in Boogie Nights at the New Theatre</title>
           
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  Gareth Gates has certainly found his spiritual home on stage. This might sound like a prerequisite for someone who found fame on a reality TV show, but having been feted and lauded before being churned up and spat out by pop’s vociferous machine, he has re-emerged as a musical theatre performer and consistently stunned his critics into submission. Having a severe stammer has done little to impede his journey, and interestingly when in character Gareth doesn’t have a speech impediment, only as himself. “When I was a child I was the only person I knew with a stammer, which is a very lonely place to be, and it would have been very helpful to know there was someone in the same situation, because it dictates everything from your job to your personal life,” Gareth Gates says without a scrap of self-pity. His battle to speak normally and in the full glare of the public eye has been a brave one — an entire BBC documentary Stop My Stutter — being dedicated to the subject last year where he discussed the revolutionary McGuire Technique which helped him, and of which he is now a teacher, a role he is hugely proud of. “Speech for me has been a very big part of my life because it’s always something I’ve had to deal with, so to show other people what it’s about and help others is a great feeling for me.” Who can forget watching him appear on our screens for the first time to sing like an angel on Pop Idol, unable to utter a word to the judges? “This is my journey and I’m not ashamed of that at all. It’s made me who I am.” Singing has always been Gareth’s release, and with a classical education that is seldom mentioned, he is the perfect musical star; Joseph, Les Miserables, Legally Blonde and now Boogie Nights meaning he’s a pro. “The last four years have been full-on. I’ve jumped from show to show, so I’m fortunate,” he says. About to wow you in Boogie Nights at the New Theatre, Gareth is in his element: “It’s lots of fun and full of 1970s classics which my parents used to listen to so it’s right up my street,” he says, “and I’m the lucky one who gets to sing with the Osmonds! “It’s the kind of show which gets everyone up on their feet singing and dancing,” he smiles. Unsurprisingly Gareth plays the heartthrob, “Yes,” he laughs embarrassed, changing the subject, “but it’s amazing to work with legends like The Osmonds and an honour, so I wasn’t nervous, more excited. But I do need a break after this.” Until the next one? “Absolutely.”
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           <title>Lenny Henry talks about his role in the play Fences</title>
           
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  You are a successful stand-up comedian.
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           <title>Curiosity Shop head to Oxford Playhouse with Abingdon's Richard Holt in leading role</title>
           
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  It is Dickens but not quite as we know him as Oxford Playhouse and Theatre Alibi reunite on an updating of The Old Curiosity Shop. The action in Curiosity Shop is shifted from early in the 19th century to present day and the featured business premises deal in vintage records rather than the “odds and ends” of the novel.
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           <title>Comedian Simon Day heads for the Mill, Banbury</title>
           
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  All comedians have dark sides, some darker than others. But Simon Day’s recent autobiography Comedy And Error goes further than that. Much further. It’s a tale of neglect, survival, punishment, incarceration, violence, addiction, fame, comedy and redemption... in that order.
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           <title>The Glass Menagerie previewed: The Theatre Chipping Norton</title>
           
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  It’s a very English view, looking out across the Cotswold stone roofs from Chipping Norton Theatre’s top-floor rehearsal studio. But inside the studio the scene switches abruptly to America, for the play being rehearsed is Tennessee Williams’ autobiographical The Glass Menagerie.
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           <title>Preview of Wasted at the North Wall</title>
           
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  Wasted is Kate Tempest’s first play. Before that she was a rapper and poet in South-East London so this is a big departure for the 27-year-old. But her insight into the whole rave scene struck a cord, and Wasted has been selling out around the country ever since.
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           <title>Jonathan Miller on his new production of Rutherford and Son at Oxford Playhouse</title>
           
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  Show business or medicine? The dilemma that has persisted throughout Jonathan Miller’s working life is evident in the very first cutting on him in the library here at Newspaper House. It is contained in an envelope file labelled — comical as it seems, for Miller is nearly 80 — “Miller, Jonathan, Cambridge student”.
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  Comedy
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