Review
REVIEW: Why you should go and see David Hare play Skylight, at The Theatre Chipping Norton
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Written by David Hare in 1995, Skylight is uncomfortably voyeuristic and tantalisingly engrossing. Like a jigsaw as the plot weaves and winds fatalistically...
Art
A working gold toilet, Mini Me and Hitler. Just some of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s works in his new solo exhibition at Blenheim Palace
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Always controversial, ambitious, brilliant and brazen, Blenheim Art Foundation will continue to enthral as it opens Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's new solo exhibition...
Do
Run the four minute mile, try the tunnel, visit BMW or go punting. Why Oxford Open Doors is our favourite weekend of the year
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Oxford Open Doors is our favourite weekend of the year, so here’s the lowdown on what to see and do from the organisers...
Eat
Cabaret veterans Kit & McConnel are “like Flanders and Swann on steroids” as they prepare for entertaining dinner at White Hart in Wytham
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“We have much more fun than the audience does. They should be paying us, not the other way around,” James McConnel admits.
The Emmy...
Eat
Orwells entry in Good Food Guide’s ‘TOP 50 RESTAURANTS’, plus Oxfordshire’s 25 best eateries
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Orwells restaurant in Shiplake was voted 'no 28' in the top 50 restaurants in the UK by the Good Food Guide this week.
Coming...
Classical
REVIEW: Second World War setting for Opera Anywhere’s Hansel and Gretel triumphs in Sunningwell
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The innovative Opera Anywhere – now approaching its 20thanniversary – has come up trumps again with this lovely production of Hansel and Gretel, Humperdinck’s...
See
Skylight is the limit: How Chipping Norton Theatre’s home productions go from strength to strength
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Skylight is David Hare's most produced work, but news that director John Terry is taking on the Olivier award-winning play, has given the...
See
Fascism v unicorns and other pressing issues in 4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fringe show Unicorn Party at Burton Taylor Theatre
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"Unicorn Party is a very contemporary response to the crazy times we live in," Nick Field tells me when discussing his one-man show.
Unexpected,...
Comedy
Keeping Morecambe and Wise alive: Eric and Ern are back and coming to Oxford Playhouse
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It started off as a comedy sketch for a charity do in a golf club. Actor Jonty Stephens, whose impressions of Eric Morecambe...
Family
Fingest Great Barn Opera raises money for children’s charities with two epic concerts
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Just when you thought the summer opera season was over, up pops Fingest Great Barn Opera near Henley with an enticing pair of...