It was too hot to eat properly. All I wanted was to nibble, to graze, to drink ice cold rose with my tongue...
Festivals
REVIEW: TRUCK KICKS OFF WITH RAUCOUS SET FROM POST PUNK HEADLINERS – SLAVES
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Thursday at Truck was all about the post-punk headliners Slaves, a two-piece boyband from the garden of England.
And in the sweltering heat Laurie...
It was an airless evening for ElevenOne’s first open-air summer show of The Three Musketeers. With Oxford’s ancient town wall as a fitting...
GRAB YOUR GLITTER, WELLIES, TENT…. IT’S FESTIVAL TIME FOLKS!
The Wilderness Festival from August 1-4
It's back at glorious Cornbury Park. Delights such as Bombay...
Monteverdi’s Vespersof 1610, which will bring Garsington Opera’s 30thanniversary season to a close, is an extraordinary work, its operatic qualities making it entirely in...
Family
INTERVIEW: “The more the merrier” The Globe on Tour with woolly hats and ice packs.
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Beau Holland is shaking the sand out of her suitcase when we speak, having just returned from Guernsey with The Globe On Tour.
Appearing in...
Music
Tinkling the ivories, Game of Queens and Peter Rabbit’s Musical Adventure. It’s all going on this week in our classical music round-up
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Oxford will soon be reverberating to the tinkling of ivories as the annual Oxford Piano Festival, always a highlight of Oxford Philharmonic’s year, gets underway.
“Welcome to Creation Cruises. We hope you enjoy your voyage,” said a crew member in an ‘Officer and a Gentlemen’ style white uniform.
We...
See
The Weimar Special with bows on….and feathers. SPUDS are back in true cabaret style!
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Set against a background of extreme economic hardship in Weimar-era interwar Berlin and the rise of the far-right, a vibrant cultural scene, bursting...
Interviews
“All for one and one for all.” It’s open air theatre but not as you know it for The Three Musketeers
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The Three Musketeers are swashbuckling their way through Oxford this week with a dazzling array of sword-fighting, romance, humour and intrigue.
The script, adapted...