Burton Taylor Studio What's On Guide

Burton Taylor Studio at Oxford Playhouse

What’s On...June to October 2010

01865 305305www.oxfordplayhouse.com

Welcome!It’s an exciting season here at the BT Studio with lots on offer to see you through the summer and into autumn.

We are currently making a new show for children, called Bath Time. Created for the youngest members of our audience, it promises to be full of fun, magic, bubbles and laughter, and if your child has never been to the theatre before this will be a great introduction. Our touring production One Small Step is back with us for one week only during its whirlwind tour. This show will have been seen in 17 countries and by approximately 15,000 people by the time it returns to the studio in July. Grab your chance to see this home-grown show before it takes off again!

For teenagers, we’re really excited to present Northern Stage’s Apples . A deft and defiant portrayal of what it’s like for some teenagers living in this challenging world. And, for adults we’ve some great drama, dance and new writing. Some of the best writers in the country have written monologues about their experiences of growing up in Oxfordshire, which they will perform themselves in Come To Where I’m From. We will mount a full scale production of the winning play from this year’s New Writing competition, and we are hosting an evening of new works made by local artists in our scratch night untried…untested. Plus we’ve got the award winning The Event which will make you question ‘why theatre?’, the anarchically funny Stay by Stacy Makishi and much more.

If you’re under 26 there is an allocation of free tickets for most shows. See www.oxfordplayhouse.com/free for how to join up.

Charlie FieldProgramme Manager, Oxford Playhouse and Burton Taylor Studio

How to book Call the ticket office on 01865 305305 or log on to www.oxfordplayhouse.com

Alternatively, tickets are available up to 30 minutes before the performance from Oxford Playhouse’s ticket office, Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2LW. From 30 minutes before the performance remaining tickets will be available from the Burton Taylor Studio ticket office situated on the first floor. Please note all seating at the Burton Taylor Studio is unreserved.

Where listed, discounts are available for under 18s, over 60s, full time students, ES40s, BECTU and Equity members and patrons with disabilities.

The auditorium is situated on the second floor of the Burton Taylor Studio, accessed via two flights of stairs. We have a stair climber for wheelchair users. If you require this facility please book with the ticket office at least 24 hours in advance.

If there is anything else you may need to make your visit to the studio easier, or you would like further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

A Night Less Ordinary – free tickets An allocation of free tickets for under 26 year olds is available for selected performances. Please see ticket office for details or visit: www.oxfordplayhouse.com/free


Theatre and events made in Oxford

Theatre and events for all the family

Thursday 1 to Sunday 4 July Thu 2 & 4pm, Fri to Sun 10am, 1 & 4pm

Bath TimeBath time – it’s all about getting clean, right? Wrong! Bath time is for splashing about, singing down the plughole, shouting up the taps and making bubble beards.

A magical and perfectly silly show celebrating the games we all play in the bath – in words, music, dance and puppets, with lots of chances to join in.

Devised and directed by Toby Hulse, who created the unforgettable One Small Step for Oxford Playhouse, this promises to be an ideal treat for children aged two to five, their families, and anyone who has ever shared a bath.

No towels required!

Tickets Children: £5 Adults: £7 Ages 2 to 5

Monday 5 to Friday 9 JulyMon 8pm, Tue to Fri 5 & 8pm

One Small StepMade right here at the BT Studio, One Small Step returns home following an amazing tour across the world including visits to Australia, Singapore, Dubai, Egypt and Sri Lanka.

Check your oxygen, adjust your spacesuit and buckle up for the biggest mission of your life. An action-packed, full throttled trip to the moon!

Two extraordinary actors bring dozens of characters to life in this brilliantly inventive exploration of the space race.

Fast, furious and really rather funny – don’t miss it.

What a life affirmingly brilliant piece of theatre this is. ***** Time Out

Post show talk: Tuesday and Thursday after 8pm performance

Tickets Children: £6 Adults: £10 Ages 7+

Oxford Playhouse Productions at the Burton Taylor Studio

Monday 21 at 8pm & Tuesday 22 June at 7.30 & 9.30pmA Clockwork OrangeLocal amateur theatre company: Cable Tie Theatre

Alex is fifteen years old. His principal interests include rape, ultra-violence, and Beethoven. In a brutal and frightening dystopia, join Alex and his droogs as they rampage through this iconic story, enjoy a bit of the old Ludwig Van, and explore the morality of free will.

Post show talk: Monday

Tickets £8 discounts £6 Age 16+

Wednesday 23 to Saturday 26 June at 7.30pmApplesNorthern Stage & Company of Angels

Enter the dazzling, chaotic world of Adam and Eve. Theirs is a very different Eden. On a council estate where cheap booze flows as freely as the wild experiences of the teenagers that live there, friendships mean everything and families are left behind.

Funny, tragic and delightful, it’s Catcher in the Rye meets the Arctic Monkeys. Time Out

Includes very strong language with sexual and violent content.


Saturday 10 July at 11am & 2pmScarecrowajtc Theatre Company

A tale of fun and furrows with movement, puppetry, storytelling and live music.

Written by Mike Kenny this is the story of a lonely scarecrow and a bunch of noisy crows. The scarecrow hates the crows. But every time he chases them off they just keep coming back. The crows can take or leave the scarecrow. They’re too busy squabbling, eating and living their lives. All he wants is to be left alone.

We follow their relationship, from their beginnings as enemies, to their eventual grudging friendship.


Saturday 10 July at 8pmMiriam Jones and her BandFor one night only the BT Studio welcomes Miriam Jones. Poppy and memorable, soulful and reflective, folky and human. Miriam has a voice that has been compared to Patti Smith, Norah Jones and Alanis Morissette. She will be appearing with her band as they prepare to record their fourth album.

Tickets £10 discounts £8

Saturday 17 July at 7.30pm Lilly Through The DarkThe River People

A macabre story, inspired by real events. A little girl loses her father and is stalked in the waking world by shadows and memories until she makes the decision to go searching for him in the land of the dead.

With puppetry, live music and poetic language, award-winning theatre company, The River People, tell this intimate story that explores death and the process of grief.

It has a spooky moonlit beauty that lingers. Guardian


Saturday 24 July at 7.30 & 9pmCome to Where I’m FromPaines Plough & Oxford Playhouse Productions

The leading new writing company Paines Plough is asking playwrights from across the UK to write plays about the places they grew up.

Coming home to tell their tales at the BT Studio, leading and emerging playwrights Mike Bartlett, Alice Birch, Catriona Kerridge, Duncan Macmillan and Penelope Skinner have written about their own experiences of growing up in Oxfordshire, and will all perform their work.

Paines Plough will also run a playwriting workshop at 11am and a workshop on setting up and running a company at 2pm. For further information visit www.oxfordplayhouse.com




Saturday 31 July at 11am & 2pmDon’t Let The Pigeon Drive The BusBig Wooden Horse

This lively show is full of fun, feathers, laughter and excitement with original music and lots of audience participation!

The friendly bus driver leaves us with one simple instruction: “Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus!” However, the pigeon is very clever and whines, bribes, pleads and even sings a song to get his own way…But will you let him drive?


Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 AugustSat 8pm, Sun 2.30pmEmily Dickinson & I: the journey of a portrayalLynchpin Productions Theatre Company

A one-woman play about writing, acting and getting into Emily Dickinson’s dress. Movingly told and intensely personal, Emily Dickinson & I tells of the relationship between a dead poet and her living admirer, separated by a continent and a century.

This original piece of work is presented as part of the Emily Dickinson International Society conference in Oxford.


Wednesday 25 August at 5 & 8pmThe Law of InertiaA Play Reading

A man has a car accident. His car is wrecked. He walks away unhurt. Is it a miracle? Is it luck? Is it just the laws of motion as described by Sir Isaac Newton?

A work in progress reading of a new play written by Rachel Barnett discussing the themes of faith, anxiety, panic and the unreliability of time.

Following the readings there will be a Q&A session with the writer, director and actors.

Tickets £5 discounts £3 (includes a free drink)

Thursday 26 & Friday 27 August at 7.30pmAre There More of You?Hint of LIME Productions and Skilhardy

The hilarious and heartbreaking tale, written and performed by Alison Skilbeck, of four women living seemingly different lives but all on the verge of a nervous breakthrough and linked by the same postcode.

Claire, a bright, abandoned Ambassador’s wife with blood on her hands, Italian Sophia, who serves egg ‘n’ chips by day and osso bucco and Verdi by night, Sara, the local spirit weaver, all sweetness and light unless you tangle with her, and Sam a bluff northern business woman who’s always got on with men, but seems to be going home alone. SW11 will never be the same!


Saturday 28 August at 11am, 2 & 4pmThe Magnificent Flying MachineGarlic Theatre

Have you ever dreamed of having wings? Follow the wacky adventures of Professor Bix Horn as he flies by the seat of his pants and tries to build a flying machine out of the most unlikely things.

Family favourite Garlic Theatre returns to the BT Studio with their beautifully crafted puppets, a bowler hat and a balloon to take you on a hare-brained journey of a lifetime…


Wednesday 1 & Thursday 2 September at 7.30pmThe EventAbsurdum International

The man stands in a pool of light on the stage. We know this because he tells us so, but also because our past experience tells us that this is what actors do. He appears to be intelligent, but this might just be clever direction. There is a huge gap between what we assume and what we actually know. And the more he tells us, the less we think for ourselves. We are truly in the dark. Who do we think he is?

Hugely acclaimed and beautifully conceived theatre, masterfully delivering a profound, thought-provoking, imaginative experience.

Post Show talk: Wednesday

A single performer gifted enough to rivet an audience. Times ****Winner of a Fringe First award




Friday 3 September at 7.30pmStayStacy Makishi

A dinner party has had one drink too many and now Elizabeth Taylor lifts the petticoats of a love affair that’s gone to the dogs. Film noir collides with Pet Rescue in this hilarious examination of co-dependence, malicious domination and the subversion of the natural order. This highly visual piece draws its inspiration from Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf, Lassie Come Home and the paintings of Paula Rego.


Saturday 4 September at 11am & 2pmClaytimeIndefinitearticles

Claytime, a play with clay, where the audience are invited to participate. Earth’s natural material meets with children’s imaginations: a world of fabulous forms, amazing animals and morphing monsters.

Each Claytime is totally unique – creating its own world, its own characters and its own stories drawn directly from its young audience.

Truly interactive theatre at its most engaging.


Saturday 11 September at 11am & 2pmArabian NightsTheatre of Widdershins

Welcome to the world of the Arabian Nights. Here we have three tales from the Queen of all storytellers – the incredible Sheherazade.

Using puppets, masks, storytelling and wonderfully atmospheric music Theatre of Widdershins takes you on an exciting journey with genies, camels and a flying carpet, through roasting deserts, sand dunes, scented markets and fish filled seas.


Tuesday 14 to Saturday 18 September Tue & Wed 1pm, Thu to Sat 7.30pmNew Playwriting CompetitionA brand new play especially created for the BT Studio. This year’s Oxford Playhouse writing competition culminates in this performance of the winning play. To find out more about the competition and how you can enter, please visit www.oxfordplayhouse.com/takingpart/ActivitiesforAll


Monday 20 September at 7.30pmuntried…untestedFast becoming a regular event, the BT Studio is presenting an evening of performance by artists from Oxfordshire.

You’ll have the chance to see extracts from unfinished pieces, which could include dance, theatre, music, poetry and live art.

Afterwards share your thoughts on what you’ve seen with the performers over a glass of wine.

If you are interested in performing yourself please visit www.oxfordplayhouse.com for further information

Tickets £5 discounts £3 (includes a free drink)

Saturday 25 September at 11am & 2pmWhiteCatherine Wheels

Music, stories and surprises. Come with us into the sparkling world of White. Everything is clean and new. The white world gleams and it dazzles but someone has to keep it that way.

A gentle and playful experience, which entertains and stimulates the imagination of the very young.




Wednesday 29 & Thursday 30 September at 7.30pmThis Is NowNew Art Club

In 1983, Tom illegally taped the first Now That’s What I Call Music LP (side one) onto a C60 cassette. 25 years later he found it in a drawer and a new show was born. Join Britain’s funniest dance duo as they deconstruct this first ever Now album and jump headlong into the dark pool of days gone by and come out covered in a filthy 80’s gunk. Wrestling with classic hits from Bonnie Tyler and Duran Duran, amongst others, will Tom and Pete be able to save the audience from drowning in nostalgia? Tickets £10 discounts £8

Friday 1 & Saturday 2 October at 7.30pmGussetLaurielorry Theatre Company

Pauline Potter’s gusset is her guiding light and her epicentre. She has worked in the factory for twenty years as a ‘Floater’ and that by definition means she floats from one job to another.

Pauline feels trapped and is desperate to get out and with her new book Gusset Path to Life anything is possible. The gusset determines the way a woman moves and feels. If it is cut the wrong way dramatic changes take place.

If you are experiencing mood swings, manic depression, irrational behaviour and want to kill the nearest man to you…check your gusset out! I did and it changed my life.


Tuesday 5 & Wednesday 6 October at 7.30pmAmericanaYorke Dance

An eclectic evening of contemporary dance shaped specifically for the Burton Taylor Studio by the Yorke Dance Project. The evening features new work choreographed by Artistic Director Yolande Yorke-Edgell and dance maverick Wendy Houstoun, plus select moments from US choreographer and icon Bella Lewitzky’s Meta 4. One of Oxford’s youth dance companies will open the evening, which brings some of the UK’s finest contemporary dancers to the BT Studio.


Thursday 7 to Saturday 9 October at 7.30pm6.0 How Heap and Pebble Took on the World and WonDancing Brick

The incredible story of two ice dancers in a world without ice

Five years ago the last of the world’s ice disappeared. A year after that the sport of ice dancing went with it.

Tonight Heap Krusiak and Pebble Adverati, the greatest ice dancers the world has ever known, will attempt, against all odds, to bring back what the world took away by competing again.

This is a story of friendship and love when everything else has disappeared, and the story of how we cope when our environment stops providing us with what we need.

Post Show talk: Thursday


Oxford Playhouse Summer Schemes at the Burton Taylor Studio

Monday 6 to Friday 13 August 10am to 4pmThe Wonderful World of StrangeWe all have a story to tell. Some are sad, some are funny and some are just plain mad. Mark Curtis and John Carter delve deep within our imaginations and invite you to explore stories of the weird and the wonderful.

Tickets £125 Ages 14 to 18

Monday 16 to Friday 20 August 10am to 4pmWhy is that Funny?Come and join Mark Curtis and John Carter for a mix of crazy exercises, workshops and games designed to bring out the comedy that lies within us all.

Tickets £125 Ages 12 to 15



Burton Taylor StudioGloucester Street, Oxford OX1 2BN

Ticket Office: 01865 305305www.oxfordplayhouse.com

Date Day Time Production

June21 Mon 8pm A Clockwork Orange22 Tue 7.30pm A Clockwork Orange 9.30pm A Clockwork Orange23 Wed 7.30pm Apples24 Thu 7.30pm Apples25 Fri 7.30pm Apples26 Sat 7.30pm Apples

July1 Thu 2pm Bath Time 4pm Bath Time2 Fri 10am Bath Time 1pm Bath Time 4pm Bath Time3 Sat 10am Bath Time 1pm Bath Time 4pm Bath Time4 Sun 10am Bath Time 1pm Bath Time 4pm Bath Time5 Mon 8pm One Small Step6 Tue 5pm One Small Step 8pm One Small Step7 Wed 5pm One Small Step 8pm One Small Step8 Thu 5pm One Small Step 8pm One Small Step9 Fri 5pm One Small Step 8pm One Small Step10 Sat 11am Scarecrow 2pm Scarecrow 8pm Miriam Jones and her Band17 Sat 7.30pm Lilly Through The Dark24 Sat 7.30pm Come to Where I’m From 9pm Come to Where I’m From31 Sat 11am Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus 2pm Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus

Date Day Time Production

August7 Sat 8pm Emily Dickinson & I 8 Sun 2.30pm Emily Dickinson & I 25 Wed 5pm The Law of Inertia 8pm The Law of Inertia26 Thu 7.30pm Are There More of You? 27 Fri 7.30pm Are There More of You? 28 Sat 11am The Magnificent Flying Machine 2pm The Magnificent Flying Machine 4pm The Magnificent Flying Machine

September1 Wed 7.30pm The Event 2 Thu 7.30pm The Event 3 Fri 7.30pm Stay 4 Sat 11am Claytime 2pm Claytime11 Sat 11am Arabian Nights 2pm Arabian Nights14 Tue 1pm New Playwriting Competition 15 Wed 1pm New Playwriting Competition 16 Thu 7.30pm New Playwriting Competition 17 Fri 7.30pm New Playwriting Competition 18 Sat 7.30pm New Playwriting Competition 20 Mon 7.30pm untried…untested 25 Sat 11am White 2pm White 29 Wed 7.30pm This Is Now30 Thu 7.30pm This Is Now

October1 Fri 7.30pm Gusset 2 Sat 7.30pm Gusset 5 Tue 7.30pm Americana 6 Wed 7.30pm Americana 7 Thu 7.30pm 6.0 How Heap and Pebble Took on the World and Won8 Fri 7.30pm 6.0 How Heap and Pebble Took on the World and Won 9 Sat 7.30pm 6.0 How Heap and Pebble Took on the World and Won

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