South Parade, Oxford OX2 7JN
Oxford
The North Wall Arts Centre is a theatre in Oxford.
‘There’s a monster in the garden and it’s going to eat me.’ What happens when nobody listens? David McKee’s wickedly funny story roars on to the stage in Roustabout Theatre’s fantastical and colourful adaptation of this classic and much-loved picture book. Through physical...
An early tableau in Robert Chesley’s 1986 play Jerker involves a character masturbating to a generic message on his answering machine. It’s not the last masturbation scene in the play – which was once the subject of an obscenity-related censorship attempt on Californian radio – nor is it the…
I suspect like most people, you have never come across the name of Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan before. A mixed-heritage British Indian and Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent in Nazi-occupied Paris who was the first woman to be parachuted into France to provide radio communication vital to the R…
Directed by the award-winning Rob Ashford, Tru is now open at the Menier Chocolate Factory, following the production’s New York run earlier this year. It's December 1975 and Truman Capote is alone in his New York apartment, reeling from a crisis that cost him friendship of the elite social circle …
Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story, performed and directed by Linus Karp and Joseph Martin, takes the familiar royal narrative and gleefully sets fire to the history books.…
In 1975, Breakfast at Tiffany’s author Truman Capote became a social pariah overnight, after his public betrayal of the group of New York socialites known as the “Swans”. Tru, Jay Presson Allen’s 1989 dramatisation of the incident, locks us in the New Journalism pioneer’s living room in th…
There is surely no event more certain in the dance calendar than an English National Ballet mixed bill at Sadler’s Wells. What creative offerings do they have for us this time?…
In a rental in Florida, Abigail is helping Alice to pack: the Nobel Prize winner and decorated scientist is leaving Earth to further space research. The two sisters haven’t spoken in seven years. Alex Rugman delivers a tender representation of sisterhood. Dorothea Myer-Bennett and Meghan Treadway …
Before Table 17 begins, a voice over the tannoy announces that audience interaction is encouraged, “like in panto”. It’s a good thing they warned us, because Douglas Lyons’s play is trying so hard to be a participatory experience that its core emotional truths are being lost along the way.…
Rooted in his own childhood in the British shipbuilding town of Wallsend, The Last Ship tells the moving story of a community of shipbuilders in the North East of England, faced with the closure of their shipyard – the heart of their existence. Sting takes on the role of Jackie White, the shipyard…
Plenty of heart in this full-throated condemnation of Mrs Thatcher's industrial policies, but great songs and a great set do not a musical make…
“I dance in the horror of grief.” Three men at Woodhill prison are dead. Their families demand answers. This is a call to arms about the crisis facing prisons. Gut punching choreography and unflinching beats shine a light on the hidden story of HMP Woodhill. Lyrically told in...
A decade retrospective of capitalising on my dead dad to varied levels of failure and success BAFTA-winning writer and recovering spoken-word artist Jack Rooke (Creator of Hulu / C4’s Big Boys ) brings back his debut comedy-theatre show ‘Good Grief’, a decade on from it...
“So good we thought it was written by a man!” M is a woman. M is a writer. M is a mother. Catapulted from the crest of a hit play and hijacked by motherhood – the wild nights out have been replaced by evenings in with baby and a breastpump. Suddenly M is burnt out, angry...
An old soul lives alone.He likes it that way.Its quieter and safer.One day, a surprise visitor plants a little seed of hope and turns this lonely life upside down.Told by a very special performer, with a playful mix of puppetry, original music and song, Little Gift is a seasonal...
