I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that if it is on at the Burton Taylor then it is well worth seeing.
Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to fetch her poor dog a bone, but when she got there, the cupboard was bare... Or was it? A nursery rhyme journey with beautiful glove puppets, singing teapots and dancing dogs!
Ages 3-6
Category: Family Prices: £6.50 / Child £4.50
A regular to the Burton Taylor Studio, Luke Wright returns with his third solo show and the most poetry-packed to date.
The hard working heir to John Hegley. Guardian
Category: Poetry Prices: £10 (£8)
Enter a world where man and woman do not walk with legs but swim with tails, where music is the language in the most mysterious depths of the ocean. A beautiful fusion of original songs and live music, physical theatre, puppetry, movement and colour.
Ages 4+
Oxford's answer to a Tarrantino soundtrack, sixties style songsmiths The Long Insiders return to the BTS after their sell-out appearance in 2007. Casting a new light over their increasingly well-known louche guitar sounds and steamy duets, explore the surf side of their work to date.
Category: Music Prices: £10 (£8)
Become part of this playful and comic story of a Prince, a 'real' Princess, a clever Queen, a tower of mattresses and of course a tiny pea. This quirky and inventive adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's bedtime tale is played out among sheets and blankets with puppets, objects and dreamlike projections.
Ages 2-5
A sad, funny and provoking exploration of a woman attempting to sort out the painful questions in her life. Ignoring the musician who stands by her during the performance ready to comment, she recalls conversations with six women who have impressed her in different ways.
Category: Drama Prices: £8 (£6)
French performer and lecturer, Chloé Déchery talks about "stuff, you, British people, should know". Blurring the lines between lecture and performance, this is a humorous show about language and the challenging task of presenting both random and crucially important information.
Category: MISC Prices: £10 (£8)
One day you wake to ind that you've become your dad... and all you once dreaded now stares back at you... and the cycle of violence continues... A taste for malice passes from grandfather to father to first born son like clockwork. But, as the timid younger brother, spanning his life from tragic childhood to tainted adulthood, Richard Fry charts the inner aflictions of a well meaning soul who tries to break the cycle. A sell out sensation at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe.
Let Richard Fry take you in and you will feel the tears rolling down your cheeks within no time. Three Weeks *****
Ages 14+
Category: Drama Prices: £10 (8)
A black comedy which tells the story of an elderly man coming to terms with the injustice of his confinement in a residential care home at the insistence of his son and daughter-in-law. Vividly recreating episodes from his past life through imaginary conversations, this is a complex and darkly funny one-man show.
Tangles? Split Ends? Frizzy? It's hard enough having a bad hair day but pity poor Rapunzel spending her life in a tower with a wicked old witch using her captive's locks as a step ladder! This enchanting show promises plenty of volume and loads of highlights. Make an "appointment" to see it today - because you're worth it!
Category: Family Prices: £6.50 Child £4.50
Twin sisters Ferhana and Aishah have grown up with very different outlooks on life and when it comes to choosing their husbands they couldn't be more opposed. Based on real life testimonies this highly visual new production uses live music and song to celebrate the courage, strength and spirit of Muslim Women.
Ages 12+
Category: Drama Prices: £10 (£8)
My purpose in going to Walden was not to live cheaply or dearly, but to live deliberately
On 4th July 1845, Henry David Thoreau walked into the woods near his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts and decided to stay. He found a spot next to a lake called Walden Pond and built a hut. For the next two years he attempted to live entirely by his own resources.
Walden, Thoreau's account of his life in the woods, is one of the most extraordinary and unclassifiable books ever written. Magnetic North's adaptation relects the book's many facets and contradictions in a piece of beautiful theatre.
1665. Plague is sweeping the country and death is everywhere. One small village full of selish souls has caught the deadly disease. It's up to a young boy to undertake an epic voyage into the depths of Hell to ind a cure. A troupe of travelling players relay this heroic tale of self-discovery using an abundance of live music, playfulness, and oodles of shocks and giggles.
One of the country's most exciting theatre companies making work for younger audiences. Guardian
Age 8+
Forgotten for decades inside a mental hospital, three women escape their present by remembering their past. Within the asylum's hair salon, to the sounds of Rick Astley and Glenn Miller they relive wartime affairs, illicit trysts and childhood secrets. Genuinely funny and incredibly moving, a hit at Edinburgh 2008.
When Handa and her friend Akeyo go looking for Grandma's black hen Mondi, they find two fluttery butterlies round the hen house, three stripy mice under the grain store and four little lizards behind the pots... But where is Mondi? Based on the book by Eileen Browne, this beautiful, engaging and interactive show features 55 handmade puppets.
Age 2-6
Category: Family Prices: £6.50 (£4.50)