Fridays at 5pm
TIM HARFORD IN THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST STRIKES BACK
Tomorrow (Friday) at 5pm n Box office: 01865 305305 www.oxfordplayhouse.com
Tim Harford is the author of The Undercover Economist, presenter of BBC Radio 4’s More or Less and Pop Up Economics, and a regular columnist for the Financial Times. In support of Oxford Playhouse he talks here about how to run and ruin an economy, with his trademark storytelling and statistical savvy, and discovers where it all went wrong. Tim will also be signing copies of his new book, The Undercover Economist Strikes Back, after the talk.
Classic Drama ibsen’s
GHOSTS
Oxford Playhouse
Tuesday, October 22, to Saturday, October 26
Box office: 01865 305305
Oswald returns home from Paris to honour his dead father. As his mother begins to feel the presence of ghosts around her, Oswald discovers he is suffering from a mystery illness. Only by uncovering the truth can they both be free. English Touring Theatre returns with this new translation of Henrik Ibsen’s masterpiece, inspired by the artist Edvard Munch’s extraordinary stage designs for the play seen only once in 1906.
Author signing
AMIT CHAUDHURI/ TELLING TALES
Blackwell’s, Broad Street, Oxford
Today (Thursday)
Call 01865 333623
Spanning a writing career of over 20 years, acclaimed novelist and author Amit Chaudhuri, is also one of the most gifted essayists and critics writing today. Collected here for the first time he will be discussing Mere Writing, a selection of his most enduring short non-fiction, from playing ‘cowboys and indians’ as a child in India to an outsider’s perspective on the British class system. Tickets cost £3.
Elizabethan England
MIDNIGHT AT THE BOAR’S HEAD
Cogges Manor Farm, Witney
Saturday
Tickets 01608 642350 or www.cogges.org.uk
Outside the land is burning, but in the bar, music is playing, drink is flowing and stories are being told. It’s the Boar’s Head in London’s Cheapside, Shakespeare’s favourite pub. Fine Chisel Theatre recreates the atmosphere bringing it to life, filling it with an array of colourful characters in this romp, with foot stomping live music and folk-fuelled story-telling. Shakespeare has never been so much fun.
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