Ballet

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY

The Mill Theatre, Banbury

Sunday 2.30pm and 6pm

themillartscentre.co.uk

The Vienna Festival Ballet is a favourite at Banbury and now brings its traditional, enchanting The Sleeping Beauty. This classic fairytale set to Tchaikovsky’s magnificent score features stunning choreography, beautiful costumes and talented dancers thanks to celebrated Austrian dancer Peter Mallek whose com-pany spends eight months of the year taking ballet to all corners of the UK to take the classics to as wide an audience as possible.

Comedy

SO Comedy Live!

 

The North Wall, Summertown, 8pm, thenorthwall.org

The North Wall has a new monthly resident comedy night it wants to shout about featuring “bright young sensation” local comedian Matt Richardson as its new MC. This month, Matt will welcome Tom Wrigglesworth and Eric Lampaert to the North Wall stage, both names to watch on the comedy circuit.

Children’s show

Michaela Strachan

Oxford Playhouse

Tomorrow (Friday) 5pm

Call 01865 305305 or oxfordplayhouse.com

Popular TV presenter Michaela Strachan returns to her roots in children’s entertainment with this adaption of her new children’s book Michaela Strachan’s Really Wild Adventures which takes families on a journey through an alphabet jungle of animal rhyme. Antelopes to zebras, orphaned orangutans to polar bear dentistry, this is Michaela’s home turf, taking your little ones on a whistle stop interactive tour complete with poetry, dancing, music and lots of fascinating wildlife facts.

Drama

ENGLAND STREET

Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford

Wednesday, April 17, to Sat, April 20, 7.30pm.

n Call 01865 305305 or oxfordplayhouse.com Too close for comfort maybe, but this is a tale of the worst kind of reality. The country is England but not as we know it. In the wake of brutal riots, new laws divide the land and Ali and Brennan are on the run.

Fundraiser

LYNNE TRUSS

The Theatre Chipping Norton

Saturday, April 13, 7.45pm

Call 01608 642350 or chippingnortontheatre.com

Best known for her book Eats, Shoots & Leaves, join author, playwright and apostrophe heroine Lynne Truss for a night of hilarious and brilliantly perceptive ‘talking head’ monologues. For this unique fundraising event in support of The Theatre, Lynne will be joined by a fantastic line-up of her friends from across showbusiness.