Burton Taylor Studio Whats On May to October 2014

What’s On…Oxford Playhouse at the Burton Taylor StudioMay to October 2014Including University of Oxford Trinity Term

Summertime is here again and the hot tickets in the Burton Taylor Studio are a cool £10 or less.

The Trinity term programme serves up a mixture of classic titles, new writing and comedy sketch shows, all performed, directed and produced by students at the University of Oxford.

For families, we’re producing a brand new show What To Do When You Find a Dinosaur that is perfect for young (and not so young) explorers and adventurers.

The wonderful Eyestrings, who brought The Duchess of Malfi to the BT in 2012, returns with See What I See, while Francesca Millican-Slater examines her perfect home in The Forensics of a Flat (and other stories).

There’s loads more to watch, so enjoy looking through our brochure and we hope to see you in the BT soon.

Robert BristowBurton Taylor Studio Manager

Katy Snelling Programmer, Oxford Playhouse and Burton Taylor Studio

WELCOME TO THE BT STUDIO

Ticket Office: 01865 305305www.oxfordplayhouse.com

Burton Taylor StudioGloucester Street, Oxford OX1 2BN

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COMEDY, DRAMA, POETRY & MORE...

FAMILYthe very best of small-scale professional family theatre

STUDENTSa wide variety of productions presented by university of oxford students

Theatre and events especially for families. Come and play in the foyer area before and after the show.

These shows have been created here in the county, either by Oxford Playhouse or by local artists, amateur and professional.

Sun 27 April at 8pmTobacco Factory Theatre

BANKSY: THE ROOM IN THE ELEPHANT

In 2011, UK graffiti artist Banksy spray painted ‘This Looks A Bit Like An Elephant ’ on the side of an old water tank in Los Angeles. The disused tank was home to a man called Tachowa Covington who had furnished it with carpets, a stove and even CCTV. The tank instantly became a work of art and was taken away to be sold. By making a statement did Banksy end up making a man homeless?

DON’T FORGET...

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Vladimir and Estragon have been waiting for days, months, possibly years. But for whom exactly? They have been told to expect a man called Godot, but when?

Curious Incident Productions presents Samuel Beckett’s brilliant tragi-comedy, named ‘the most important play of the 20th Century ’ by the New York Times. Immerse yourself in the intimate and strange world of Vladimir and Estragon as they reflect on the absurd and the macabre with lightning wit.

Robin and Jacqui suffer from keraunothnetophobia, a chronic fear of falling satellites. Both are confined to their homes, with little contact to the outside world.

After meeting online, they connect and slowly fall in love – but is there any meaning in their relationship if they have never met face-to-face?

This insightful piece by James Graham enjoyed a hugely popular professional tour in 2009, and now comes to Oxford for the first time.

I know what it’s like. Screaming at your subconscious to make it stop asking questions. I know, doctor. You can’t hide from me.

Welcome to the world of Vico, a darkly humorous sociopath obsessed with the cycles and circles that permeate life. Vico enters the office of Finn, one of the most renowned psychologists in London and attempts to drive her to the edge in a desperate bid to fulfil her own cyclical philosophy.

Set to an electronic soundscape, this witty piece of new writing promises an intimate, innovative and unsettling evening of dark comedy.

university of oxford student season: trinity term 2014

WAITING FOR GODOTBy Samuel Beckett

A HISTORY OF FALLING THINGSBy James Graham

VICOBy Douglas Taylor

WEEK �tue 6 to sat 10 may tue 20 to sat 24 may tue 13 to sat 17 may

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Show time 7.30pm Tickets £6 Discounts £5



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Hilary is a fifty year-old on the edge.

A former Greenham Common protestor, she now battles with her teenage daughter’s sexual experiences, the breakdown of a lonely marriage, and the onset of menopause without losing her sense of humour.

First performed at the Royal Court in 2011, this play will lead you through the lands of middle age with plenty of rude comedy and frank emotion.

Josh Kendall is a good man, says the student who slept with him. And who are we to sayotherwise?

What’s the boundary between a man and a monster? And what evidence do we need to decide?

Role Call tells the story of a man who destroys himself by crossing the line between teacher and companion, and of a girl ’s battle to make contact with a kindred spirit. A sharp, insightful and entertaining new play.

But that means we’re gonna be stuck in the past...forever!

Join sketch comedy group Look and Learn as they traverse the tropes of time travel in what some critics are already calling the must-see show about time travel at the BT Studio this term.

How will the hot tub come into it? Where on earth will they end up? Or, more importantly, when? It could be different every night (but it probably won’t)! So sit back, relax, and let the hot, time-travelly goodness flow.


JUMPYBy April De Angelis

ROLE CALLBy Christopher Evans

BACK TO THE EXCELLENT HOT TUB TIME MACHINE By Look and Learn

tue 27 to sat 31 may tue 3 to sat 7 jun

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new writing new writing


WEEK 7 WEEK 7tue 10 to sat 14 jun tue 17 to sat 21 jun

WEEK 8

Four voices call out from the stage. Their words layer over each other and mingle into a pained and lyrical cry for love in a barren world.

Hypnotist Theatre presents Sarah Kane’s fiercely emotive and innovatively freeform play, Crave: an intensely poetic portrayal of love and suffering, elevating the beauty of language above all.

CRAVEBy Sarah Kane

This original comedy piece from In Medias Crazed Productions stars Mortimer and Charles, a pair of upper class inmates arrested for the heinous crimes of fixing Crufts and public school sports days.

The show follows the duo’s desperate attempts to put on a sketch show for the rest of their all-male prison to convince the warden of their eligibility for parole. However, as the production spirals out of control the audience may be left wondering whether the real crime was letting these two anywhere near a stage...

UNCHAINED FELONYBy Tommy Jolowicz & Jordan Reed

Two women sit side by side. Communication is fragmented, confused. One cries out to the image of an unborn child, the other tries to understand where she is. In another world, two women struggle with womanhood, fertility and patriarchal rule.

This original piece of theatre immerses its audience in the harrowing tale of life, death and what happens in between.

LET YOUR HAIR DOWNBy Christine Foley





new writing new writing


WEEK 8

All aboard, calling at all stops to hilarity!

Here comes the 9:30 service to Snodland Parkway, everybody’s favourite M25 commuter station!A brand new, raily funny, sketch show from a first class comedy troupe.

You don’t have to be crazy to stand on this platform, but it certainly helps.

SIGNAL FAILURE!a rail-based comedyBy Different Gravy



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Show time 7.30pm Tickets £8 (special preview price)

Jack Barry and Annie McGrath are a unique young double act whose curious sketches are filled with flights of fancy and offbeat charm. They’re also completely identical twins.

Catch this preview of their delightfully deadpan sketch comedy show before it heads to the Edinburgh Fringe for their debut hour.

Jack Barry and Annie McGrath have undeniable comic chemistry, bouncing off each other with a genuine ease and charm. Fest

See What I See is a bold dissection of the notion of sanity within Shakespeare.

Set within the confines of a mental hospital, Owen Horsley (Assistant Director for the RSC and Associate Director with Cheek by Jowl) takes many of Shakespeare’s most memorable scenes and characters and presents them as a visceral examination of the ways madness lies.

Eyestrings presents striking new interpretations of classic texts and was last at the BT with the acclaimed The Duchess of Malfi.

This sort of daring, intelligent work is what fringe theatre should be all about.Stage on Eyestrings’ The Duchess of Malfi

This production will be accompanied by a workshop. See page 14 for more details.

Join MCS for a romp through Chekhov’s lighter side, as they present four of his popular farces in a fast-paced evening of refined absurdity, Russian style. The Bear, The Dangers of Tobacco, The Proposal and The Wedding Party are all at once grandly melodramatic and bitingly comic, with a parody of Russian angst as the common theme.

Directed and performed by Sixth Formers from Magdalen College School, catch this show before it transfers to the Edinburgh Fringe in August.

Tue 24 June

TWINSFri 27 and Sat 28 JuneEyestrings

SEE WHAT I SEE

Show time 7.30pm Tickets £10 Discounts £8 Age guideline 14+

Show time 9pm Tickets £6 Discounts £4

Tue 1 to Thu 3 JulyMagdalen College School Drama

A QUARTET OF CHEKHOV FARCES

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Tue 8 JulyCorrie McGuire for Objective Talent presents

MORGAN & WEST


Ever seen a lion? In the wild? In England? In 2012 in Clacton, some campers thought they did. They didn’t of course, lions aren’t native to north-east Essex. But their not-sighting triggered something in the brain of Radio 4 favourite Luke Wright. Now he too is seeing things others don’t.

Step into Luke’s world of romping satirical verse where posh plumbers, paunchy ex-rockers and Lovejoy roam free. Get ready to roar.

One of the funniest and most brilliant poets of his generation. Independent

As Jack sells his cow for fivemagic beans and finds himselfin the land above the clouds,expect lots of surprises, agripping story and beautifulimages as the delightful Lyngoreturn to the BT Studio.

This show for over 3s (andtheir giants) has something for everyone – enormous shoes, tiny houses, showers of silver and gold and a big, leafy explosion!

Time-travelling magic duo Morgan & West presents a brand new show Parlour Tricks chock full of jaw-dropping, brain-bursting, gasp-eliciting feats of magic.

The dashing chaps offer up a plateful of illusion and impossibility, all served with wit, charm and no small amount of panache.

Be sure to wear a hat – Morgan & West may just blow your mind!HHHHH Three Weeks

Fri 4 JulyLuke Wright

ESSEX LION

Sat 5 July

JACK AND THE BEANSTALKby Marcello Chiarenza

Show times 11am & 2pm Tickets £7.50 Children £5.50 Age guideline 3+

Show time 8pm Tickets £8 (special preview price) Age guideline 7+



Join Rebecca Mordan, of Scary Little Girls, in this intimate evening of storytelling celebrating some of English literature’s most Radical Women. Combining literature, performance, chat and the odd tasty treat, Rebecca will introduce you to some new and little known literary fire-brands alongside such heroines of print as Rebecca West, Jeanette Winterson and Virginia Woolf.

StorySmiths events have enjoyed sell-out success at the Port Eliot, Brighton, and du Maurier literary festivals.

The audience lapped up such wonderfully chosen, risque and fascinating literary pieces, wound together so charmingly.Oxford Mail on Salon du Chocolat

In The Tiger and The Moustache,Saikat Ahamed traces thejourney of Hashi, his mother,and the emerging nation of Bangladesh.

Born on the very first day of anew nation, Hashi, the girl whoalways smiles, grew upsurrounded by flying tigers inthe Sunderban jungles.

From East London to EastBengal, taking in Birmingham,Germany and Glasgow, the storyof Bangladesh is woven togetherthrough storytelling, theatre,live music, dance and a healthyamount of humour.

Generous helpings of comedywith a dynamic, truthful andenergetic story.Public Reviews

Join PoetryJoe, star ofCBeebie’s Rhyme Rocket, inhis light-up, pop-up world offabulous foods, beastly bugsand peculiar pets. Armed withhis trusty overhead projector,PoetryJoe introduces childrenand their families to lots of newfriends including a naughtybut nice hamster, a cheatingcheetah and a whole familymade out of paper and light.

This fun-packed showincorporates elements ofshadow puppetry and magiclanterns and gives every childthe chance to write and projecttheir own poem.

Wonderful, inspiring andimaginative show.Audience member

Wed 9 JulyScary Little Girls

STORYSMITHS’ RADICAL WOMEN

Thu 10 and Fri 11 July

THE TIGER AND THE MOUSTACHEBy Saikat Ahamed



Sat 12 July

THE POETRYJOE SHOW

Show times 11am & 2pm Tickets £7.50 Children £5.50 Age guideline 3+



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Tickets £7.50 Children £5.50 Age guideline 4 to 8

Everybody likes digging, right? Maybe you use a spade, or just your hands. Sand or earth fly everywhere until you discover something. Perhaps it’s a stone, or an old toy, or that biscuit you’d been saving. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s …a dinosaur! In 1824 an eccentric Oxford scientist, William Buckland, discovered a bone from a creature that no one had ever seen before. He named it the Megalosaurus, and he was desperate to tell the world about it. Are you ready to join him when the amazing dinosaur story first begins?

Oxford Playhouse presents Oxford’s very own pre-historic story in this bone-shaking, music-making, belly-aching show for everyone aged 4 to 8 years and their families.

On the evenings of Wed 17, Thu 18 and Fri 19 September we will be holding a series of talks for adults. Please check oxfordplayhouse.com or call the Ticket Office on 01865 305 305 for more information.

Fri 12 to Sun 21 September

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU FIND A DINOSAURBy Nick WalkerAn Oxford Playhouse Production

September 10.30 11.00 13.30 14.00 16.00

Fri 12

Sat 13

Sun 14

Mon 15 NO PERFORMANCE

Tue 16 NO PERFORMANCE

Wed 17

Thu 18

Fri 19

Sat 20

Sun 21

It’s raining. Everywhere. And it won’t stop.

Brixton has already disappeared beneath the ocean. The world is sinking and there’s nothing we can do. Is it global warming, a judgement from God, or an enormous hoax?

Witty, fast paced and fantastical, The Flood is an uplifting show encompassing everything from science to romance and the future of humanity.

A uniquely ambitious performer, Superbard weaves lyrical storytelling together with original animation and music to immerse you in a drowning world.

An engrossing tale... a multimedia story for the 21st century HHHH Three Weeks



Fri 5 SeptemberTea Fuelled

THE FLOODWritten and performed by Superbard

Fri 26 SeptemberHannah Jane Walker and Chris Thorpe

I WISH I WAS LONELY

When We Embraced is a playful and charming show about two people. Actually, it’s about you. In fact it’s about everyone, but really it’s about two people, one of which may be you.

It’s about the connections we make and all the little nooks and crannies in life that we mistake for things that are utterly insignificant, simply because we can’t describe it, or that it doesn’t fit into one of our neatly constructed categories.

This is a show about experiencing the best bits and the worst bits in equal measure. It’s a show about embracing things you’ve not embraced before.

I Wish I Was Lonely is an interactive show about contactability. A show in which the audience commit to leaving their phones on. A show investigating what it means to participate in communication – or not. There will be poems, there will be stories and there will be conversation.

The new show from Fringe First winners Hannah Jane Walker and Chris Thorpe, who brought The Oh F*ck Moment to Oxford last year, I Wish I Was Lonely asks how much of ourselves we’ve given up to the new gods in our pockets.

An excellently crafted piece, both thoughtful and relevant, which challenges us to take a step back from our technology-obsessed lives. HHHH Time Out

Wed 24 SeptemberFallenFromGrace

WHEN WE EMBRACEDIn association with ARC, Stockton Arts Centre





Show times 11am & 2pm Tickets £7.50 Children £5.50 Age guideline 2 to 6

Shoe Baby is a magical puppet show! A fantastical sing-a-long adventure with a baby who takes to the sea, to the air, to the zoo all in a shoe!

Adapted from the book by Joyce Dunbar, this charming story is mixed with music from Tom Gray of the award-winning band Gomez and was awarded Best Children’s Show of Brighton Festival 2006.

Absolutely fantastic.Guardian

I live in a flat made of wooden walls, 70’s carpet and doors that are locked from the other side. In the dark of the night, I listen to the building. It tells of finger prints on door handles, skin cells in the carpet, ghosts in the plumbing.

Francesca tells stories about her beloved flat, the area it stands in, what it used to be, what it will become and the people that have populated it. It’s a bit stand up, a bit biography, a bit documentation – a love affair with a local area to the tune of bad Karaoke.

Clever and touching.Guardian on Me, Myself and Mrs Gibbs

Created in association with Birmingham REP.

Didn’t there come a point when you thought enough was enough?

Yes. There did.

Rebekah is back at her parents’ house, holed up with her old university essays and family records.

Determined to move on with her life, she begins writing the story of her great-grandfather, a World War One conscientious objector. But each page brings the events she is trying to outrun even closer. Rebekah‘s own story needs to be told.

This gripping new play asks us to consider what we’d do if pushed to the edge.

Originally developed as a part of West Yorkshire Playhouse’s Furnace Season.

Sat 27 September Long Nose Puppets

SHOE BABY

Wed 1 October

THE FORENSICS OF A FLAT (AND OTHER STORIES)Francesca Millican-SlaterProduced by Pippa Frith

Mon 6 and Tue 7 October

CONSCIENTIOUSby Adam Z. Robinson




SATURDAY 28 JUNE

SEE WHAT I SEEMON 18 TO FRI 22 AUG

PLAY IN A WEEK: BEAUTIES AND BEASTIES

Time 1pm to 5pmLocation Burton Taylor StudioTickets £25Ages 16+

Time 10am to 4pmLocation Burton Taylor StudioTickets £125Ages 7 to 10

Time 10am to 4pmLocation Burton Taylor StudioTickets £125Ages 10 to 14

Are you ready to create a brand new play in a week?

This high-energy summer holiday workshop will dive in to the depths of your imaginations exploring fairy tales, folklore, beasts and beauties as you create a show in just one week! Using storytelling, improvisation and drama games and inspired by the story of this year’s pantomime, Beauty and the Beast, the workshop will build towards a performance for friends and family at the end of the week. A brilliant opportunity to make friends, build your confidence and have bags of fun.

Eyestrings Artistic Director Owen Horsley delivers a practical and fun workshop that delves deep into the psychology of Shakespeare’s text, using a mix of acting, verse and movement exercises to get into the heart and head of his most complex characters. By examining Shakespeare’s rich text in the light of modern psychology this workshop will drag the issues that haunt characters such as Ophelia, Lady Macbeth and The Jailer’s Daughter out into the open, while developing practical acting skills along the way.

MON 11 TO FRI 15 AUGUST

CARRY ON CLOWNING

Do you like clowning around? Then this fun-packed week of theatre and comedy is for you!

Led by comedy king Mark Curtis, this summer-school, for everyone aged 10 to 14 years, offers the chance to explore a variety of clowning skills including improvisation, slapstick and comic timing.

Discover what it is to make people laugh and have great fun monkeying around while you do so. The final day will include an informal performance to friends and family of everything you’ve been working on.

Oxford Playhouse offers a bursary scheme for anyone who would like to take part in workshops but needs some help with fees. Email [email protected] for more information. This scheme is sponsored by Oxford University Press.

SATURDAY WORKSHOP SUMMER HOLIDAY WORKSHOPSUMMER HOLIDAY WORKSHOP

GET INVOLVED


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. After that time any 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 access facility users.

The studio 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 three days 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.

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Burton Taylor Studio, Gloucester Street, Oxford, OX1 2BN


STUDIO DIARY

May6 Tue 7.30pm Waiting for Godot7 Wed 7.30pm Waiting for Godot8 Thu 7.30pm Waiting for Godot9 Fri 7.30pm Waiting for Godot10 Sat 7.30pm Waiting for Godot13 Tue 7.30pm A History of Falling Things14 Wed 7.30pm A History of Falling Things15 Thu 7.30pm A History of Falling Things16 Fri 7.30pm A History of Falling Things17 Sat 7.30pm A History of Falling Things20 Tue 7.30pm Vico21 Wed 7.30pm Vico22 Thu 7.30pm Vico23 Fri 7.30pm Vico24 Sat 7.30pm Vico27 Tue 7.30pm Jumpy28 Wed 7.30pm Jumpy29 Thu 7.30pm Jumpy30 Fri 7.30pm Jumpy31 Sat 7.30pm Jumpy June3 Tue 7.30pm Role Call 9.30pm Back to the Excellent Hot Tub Time Machine4 Wed 7.30pm Role Call 9.30pm Back to the Excellent Hot Tub Time Machine5 Thu 7.30pm Role Call 9.30pm Back to the Excellent Hot Tub Time Machine6 Fri 7.30pm Role Call 9.30pm Back to the Excellent Hot Tub Time Machine7 Sat 7.30pm Role Call 9.30pm Back to the Excellent Hot Tub Time Machine10 Tue 7.30pm Crave 9.30pm Unchained Felony11 Wed 7.30pm Crave 9.30pm Unchained Felony12 Thu 7.30pm Crave 9.30pm Unchained Felony13 Fri 7.30pm Crave 9.30pm Unchained Felony14 Sat 7.30pm Crave 9.30pm Unchained Felony17 Tue 7.30pm Let Your Hair Down 9.30pm Signal Failure!18 Wed 7.30pm Let Your Hair Down 9.30pm Signal Failure!19 Thu 7.30pm Let Your Hair Down 9.30pm Signal Failure!20 Fri 7.30pm Let Your Hair Down 9.30pm Signal Failure!21 Sat 7.30pm Let Your Hair Down 9.30pm Signal Failure!

trinity term summer seasonJune24 Tue 7.30pm Twins27 Fri 7.30pm See What I See28 Sat 7.30pm See What I See July1 Tue 9pm A Quartet of Chekhov Farces2 Wed 9pm A Quartet of Chekhov Farces3 Thu 9pm A Quartet of Chekhov Farces4 Fri 7.30pm Essex Lion5 Sat 11am Jack and the Beanstalk 2pm Jack and the Beanstalk8 Tue 8pm Morgan & West9 Wed 7.30pm StorySmiths’ Radical Women10 Thu 7.30pm The Tiger and the Moustache11 Fri 7.30pm The Tiger and the Moustache12 Sat 11am The PoetryJoe Show 2pm The PoetryJoe Show September5 Fri 7.30pm The Flood12 Fri 11am What to do When You Find a Dinosaur 2pm What to do When You Find a Dinosaur13 Sat 11am What to do When You Find a Dinosaur 2pm What to do When You Find a Dinosaur14 Sun 11am What to do When You Find a Dinosaur 2pm What to do When You Find a Dinosaur17 Wed 10.30am What to do When You Find a Dinosaur18 Thu 10.30am What to do When You Find a Dinosaur19 Fri 10.30am What to do When You Find a Dinosaur 1.30pm What to do When You Find a Dinosaur20 Sat 11am What to do When You Find a Dinosaur 2pm What to do When You Find a Dinosaur 4pm What to do When You Find a Dinosaur21 Sun 11am What to do When You Find a Dinosaur 2pm What to do When You Find a Dinosaur24 Wed 7.30pm When We Embraced26 Fri 7.30pm I Wish I Was Lonely27 Sat 11am Shoe Baby 2pm Shoe Baby October1 Wed 7.30pm The Forensics of a Flat (and other stories)6 Mon 7.30pm Conscientious7 Tue 7.30pm Conscientious

THANK YOUOxford Playhouse gratefully acknowledges the support of its core funders:

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