Oxford Playhouse

Rifco Theatre Company returns to Oxford Playhouse this week with Frankie Goes to Bollywood - a vibrant, feel-good celebration of love, courage and self-discovery. The story follows Frankie, a young British woman with little interest in fame, who is swept from the gritty, grey streets of Huddersfield into the glittering Bollywood spotlight following a chance encounter. This week...

Thrum. There’s the sound of somewhere else and the permanence of a plant pot and the ubiquity of a phrase and the heartbreaking brevity of a very long time. There’s figs and worms and an old dog rejecting a blanket. There’s a woman, on a train, wearing a badge. There’s the first beep of a smoke alarm and there’s a daffodil in December and there’s the condition of fruit. There’s...

By Anton Chekhov New English language version by Simon Stephens Presented by University of Oxford student company Lighthouse Productions Directed by Alys Young “Yes but the theatre! We can’t live without the theatre.” The Seagull is Chekhov's darkly comic masterpiece. It explores the romantic and dramatic tensions between four characters: the aspiring actress Nina, the fading ac...

Presented by Oxford Classical Drama Society By Euripides In a new English translation by Alexander Lafferty, Evelyn Watterson, and Nathaniel Denton Directed by Wally McCabe with Kelly Yu To spill blood for his nation, a father is called to first sacrifice his own. The infamous "thousand ships" of the Greek armada muster in the port town of Aulis, all set to reclaim Helen from...

Award-winning Oxford Opera presents Mozart’s joyful masterpiece The Marriage of Figaro. Taking place over one chaotic day, this high speed comedy of social and sexual politics is as relevant today as it was when Mozart composed it in 1786. Join the fun as the smart-witted partnership of Figaro and his love Susanna, with the help of the spurned Countess, outwit the entitled snobb...