Playhouse Plays Out

ALLOTMENT

Botley Road Allotments

Wednesday, September 4 and Thursday, September 5

01865 305305 oxford playhouse.com

Winner of a Scotsman Fringe First Award at Edinburgh Festival, Allotment is a theatrical breath of fresh air which follows the complex, quirky and tragic relationship between sisters Dora and Maddy played out in a real allotment. The production takes place outside and will go on whatever the weather.

Comedy

GAVIN WEBSTER

Glee Club, Oxford 

Saturday, August 31

Box office: 0871 472 0400 glee.co.uk/oxford

Gavin Webster is a warm and friendly Geordie, a confident, experienced stand-up comic with an interesting stage persona — a mixture of paranoid schizophrenic with a confrontational and effortlessly funny manner.

Thriller

THAT IS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW

Oxford Playhouse

Thursday, September 5  Box office: 01865 305305 oxfordplayhouse.com

During the Second World War, the grounds of Bletchley Park housed some of Britain’s greatest minds where thousands of dynamic women lived and worked together. Decades later, as Bletchley’s secrets begin to be known, another group of groundbreaking volunteers gather to save the home of the Enigma code breakers. Using personal testimony, multimedia and inventive staging, this is an insightful celebration of the people whose hidden heroism changed the course of history.

Interactive performance

THE BUREAU OF SILLY SPORTS

Aug 30, Burwell Meadow, Witney 11am-3pm; Sep 7 Blackbird Leys Park 12-4pm

underconstruction theatre.com

Hailing from the 1950s when good old English competit-ions were taken seriously, UnderConstruction Theatre brings The Bureau of Silly Sports. Because ordinary sports stink! Enjoy their take on a fabulous summer playing silly games with children and adults and the rest is anyone’s guess. The team have already been a hit at Truck and Wilderness festivals. Plus it’s free.