University of Oxford Student Season: Hilary Term 2026

By Nathan A. Harris

Alf and Rube have questions. Would you notice if you were underwater? What would it be like to be rich? Why has everyone started wearing black?

Deaths and Entrances is an exciting piece of new writing by graduate creative writing student Nathan A. Harris. The play is a vibrant, Beckettian exploration of friendship, personal responsibility, and ignorance.

It follows Alf and Rube – two peculiarly codependent vagrants – as they bicker, ruminate on their shared past, rob strangers, get arrested, and wonder what it would be like to be a fish.