Musical

BLOOD BROTHERS

New Theatre, Oxford

Monday-Saturday, Sep 14

Box office: 0844 871 3020

Written by Willy Russell, Blood Brothers tells the moving tale of twins who, separated at birth, grow up on opposite sides of the tracks, only to meet again with fateful consequences. Starring Maureen Nolan as Mrs Johnstone and Warwick Evans as The Narrator, the superb score includes Bright New Day, Marilyn Monroe and the emotionally charged hit Tell Me It’s Not True.

Film screening

THE MOO MAN

The Theatre, Chipping Norton

Wednesday, September 11 at 7.30pm

Box office: 01608 642350 chippingnortontheatre.com

Directed by Andy Heathcote, who will be doing a Q&A afterwards. A remarkable story of a maverick farmer and his unruly cows filmed over four years on the marshes of the Pevensey Levels in Sussex. To save his family farm, Stephen Hook decides to turn his back on the cost-cutting dairies and supermarkets, and instead stay small. But his plans to save the farm do not always go down well with his 55 spirited cows. A tearjerker of a movie about the incredible bonds between man, animal and countryside.

Poetry

ROY HUTCHINS PERFORMS FORBIDDEN FRUIT

Burton Taylor Studio

Tuesday and Wednesday

Box office: 01865 305305 Roy Hutchins returns to the Burton Taylor Studio to per-form Forbidden Fruit, Heathcote Williams’ latest collection of poems. The pieces include a celebration of bees, a paean to the tiger and an extraordinary encounter with a jackdaw. Tender, provocat-ive and surprising, the show promises to be the perfect way to welcome in autumn.

One Man Show

THE MISUNDERSTOOD DR BEECHING

The Theatre, Chipping Norton

Tonight (Thurs) at 7.45pm

Box office: 01608 642350

Shane Morgan’s one-man show is a Wikipedic evening of storytelling, fact finding and legend building about the man often referred to as being Britain’s Most Hated Civil Servant, who oversaw the transformation of the British railway network and the closure of many rural lines.