Plaid and Southbank Gamelan Players
Friday 1 October
Main Stage
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Music
A mesmerising show featuring Plaid, the highly acclaimed electronic duo and the hypnotic textures of a Javanese gamelan orchestra.
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Chris Addison
Saturday 2 October
Main Stage
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Comedy
Chris Addison of In The Loop, Skins, Lab Rats and Bafta Award-winning comedy The Thick of It is pleased to bring his brand new critically acclaimed stand up show to Oxford Playhouse for one night only.
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Spend Spend Spend
Tuesday 5 - Saturday 9 October
Main Stage
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Musical
Stylish, classy and a major force in music theatre, Craig Revel Horwood's and Sarah Travis ' highly acclaimed production won the 2009 TMA award for Best Musical. The 12 strong cast act, sing, dance and play all the music onstage, creating a truly extraordinary theatrical event not to be missed.
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6.0 How Heap and Pebble Took Over the World
Thursday 7 - Saturday 9 October
BT Studio
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Drama
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.
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Will Self
Friday 8 October
Main Stage
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Talk
Author, journalist and broadcaster, Will Self, will be reading selections from his latest novel, Walking to Hollywood, a fictionalised memoir of some of his own more extreme urban peregrinations, including a week-long circumambulation of Los Angeles.
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The Red Shoes
Tuesday 12 - Saturday 16 October
Main Stage
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Drama
The acclaimed Kneehigh bring you a cracked cabaret where anything is possible and nothing is probable. Surreal and sensuous, bloody and bare - the menacing and profound world of the fairy story is revealed.
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Murder in the Cathedral
Wednesday 13 - Saturday 16 October
Christ Church College St. Aldates Oxford OX1 1DP
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Playhouse Plays Out
Oxford Playhouse Play Out at Christ Church Cathedral where TS Eliot's verse drama tells the story of the assassination of Thomas à Becket at the hands of four knights.
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A Western
Monday 18 - Wednesday 20 October
Angel and Greyhound 30 St Clements Street Oxford OX4 1AB
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Playhouse Plays Out
Oxford Playhouse Play Out at the Angel and Greyhound pub. A Western will be performed in the bar. Within the bar a valley, saloon and empty street will be created. Together with you a Western will be made!
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The Big Fellah
Tuesday 19 - Saturday 23 October
Main Stage
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Drama
A boisterous and witty story of loyalty, disillusionment and betrayal. Set among Irish Americans in New York, Richard Bean's dark, glinting, funny play spans three turbulent decades.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
Friday 22 October
Main Stage
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Talk
As BBC Radio 4's History of the World nears its conclusion, JD Hill offers a rare behind the scenes look at the making of this series.
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The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Wednesday 27 - Saturday 30 October
Main Stage
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Student Drama
University of Oxford Student Company, Acorn Productions vividly brings to life the clash of two cultures, in a dazzling new production of Peter Shaffer's epic play of adventure, daring and spectacle.
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Punk Rock
Tuesday 2 - Saturday 6 November
Main Stage
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Drama
As the end of term approaches, a group of sixth-formers prepare themselves for the end of their school lives. But as the world begins to open up before them, they are faced with the very real danger that it could swallow them whole.
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The Annual Charles Simonyi Lecture
Friday 5 November
Main Stage
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Talk
Professor Christof Koch, Professor of Biology and Engineering at the California Institute of Technology in Southern California gives this year's Charles Simonyi Lecture, the annual lecture for the public understanding of science.
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