Story-telling
THE KINGDOM OF THE HEART
BT Studio n Wednesday at 7.30pm n Tickets: 01865 305305 or oxfordplayhouse.com Drawing on European folk tales and accompanied by live cello music from Bach and Britten, The Kingdom of the Heart is thoughtful and atmospheric storytelling for adults about the pathways we choose and the price we pay. Presented by a humble fisherman who discovers a gleaming, golden land, visible only to those who know how to look.
Outrageous comedy
SPARE PRICK
Old Fire Station
Tonight (Thursday) until Saturday
Tickets from wegottickets.com Joe Graham returns to the OFS with his hilarious comedy Spare Prick which isn’t as rude as it sounds and deals with the absurdity of relationships, dating and social awkwardness. Starring three fine local actors — James Card, Steve Hay and Sara Graham — and directed by Joe Graham himself, a writer with growing reputation.
Theatrical dining
FANNY & JOHNNIE CRADOCK COOK THE AMERICAN SONGBOOK
Shillingford Bridge Hotel
Thursday, September 19
showofstrength.org.uk
Expect a five-star feast of entertainment from Fanny & Johnnie Cradock, played by actors Kate McNab and John Telfer, who will cook up a storm in their popular dinner theatre show. Enjoy a two-course meal à la Cradock, featuring Fanny’s signature ‘prawn cocktail’ and a classic chicken dish, hilariously demonstrated by Fanny before it’s served, with a bit of help from the audience and regular bursts of song assisted by Johnnie at the piano. Tickets from £29.50 per person to include show and two-course dinner.
Comedy duo
INSPECTOR NORSE
The Theatre, Chipping Norton
Tonight (Thurs) at 7.45pm
Tickets 01608 642350 or chippingnortontheatre.com
Chippy favourites, the multi-award winning comedy duo LipService, return for a web of mystery that will leave your nerves jangling and you laughing all night. It is bitter mid-winter. Ex-pop-star recluse Freya looks out of her log cabin at a rural winter scene. She smiles and turns back to her meatballs. But who is the stranger striding across the frozen wastes in a fur hat with a chisel?
Theatre
HENRY VI: ThREE PLAYS
Tonight until Saturday
Box office: 01865 305305
The Globe Theatre on Tour offers a rare opportunity to see the three plays of Henry VI, Shakespeare’s powerful rendering of a country wracked by civil war — Harry the Sixth, The Houses of York and Lancaster, and The True Tragedy of the Duke of York. Don’t miss the black comedy and pathos that combine in these savagely great history plays.
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