Burton Taylor Studio What's On Guide - April to October

What’s On...Burton Taylor Studio at Oxford Playhouse June to October 2012

Charlie Field Programme Manager, Oxford Playhouse and Burton Taylor Studio

It’s the summer and the studio is hotting up with lots on offer for everyone.

Top-notch dramaWorld-class danceA sprinkling of very fine poetry.

And don’t forget the kids. Some of the best British theatre creators making shows for children are visiting, plus there’s a brand new Oxford Playhouse production for the under 5s – Tea Time – directed by the brilliant Toby Hulse who created Bath Time and One Small Step.

If you have never been to the BT, or haven’t been in a while, why not? You’ll find fantastic professional theatre that is easy on the wallet and good for the soul.

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Theatre and events for all the family

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Burton Taylor Studio at Oxford P layhouse: June to October 2012

Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 June at 7.30pmNew Vic ProductionsBlonde Poison Starring Elizabeth Counsell

Cruel killer, betrayer of friends, promiscuous lover, victim and persecutor. Stella Goldschlag, A.K.A. ‘Blonde Poison’ to the admiring Gestapo, betrayed fellow Jews to save herself and her family. Decades later, the true extent of Stella’s morality is revealed in her last grasp for redemption.

Gail Louw’s fascinating play examines the motivation of evil.

Powerful and thought provoking… incredible and intense… deeply shocking… an unforgettable evening. Brighton Argus

Tickets £10 discounts £8

Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21 June at 7.30pmUnfolding Theatre in association with Northern StageBest in the World

When darts fan Annie Rigby watched Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor win his 15th World Darts Championship she began to wonder, ‘what is it like to be best in the world?’

Join our quest to find out what being the best really means, featuring world champions’ insights, personal triumphs, live darts and emergency bananas. Who knows? You might just be the best audience in the world.

Thrillingly talented people. Guardian on Unfolding Theatre Tickets £10 discounts £8

Friday 22 June at 7.30pm Icon TheatreRelease

Winner of a 2011 Edinburgh Fringe First Award, Release explores the lives of three prisoners in their first few months after release, as they attempt to reconnect with the people and remnants of the life they left behind.

Created from interviews with prisoners, ex-offenders, hostel managers and probation officers, at a time when two thirds of UK prisoners re-offend within two years, Release is an explosive insight into just how hard it is to go straight.

A sharp, impeccably performed and blazingly impassioned piece of theatre…simply terrific. HHHH Times




Monday 25 and Tuesday 26 June at 7.30pm Show and TellCoelacanth By Ben Moor

From the imagination of Ben Moor – one of the Edinburgh Fringe’s most lauded comedy writing talents – comes an extraordinary tale of love, loneliness, tree climbing and deeply oblivious fish. Coelacanth (pronounced see-la-kanth) was adapted for BBC Radio Four, won a Herald Angel Award and earned Ben Moor a Best Actor Award nomination from the Stage. Moor’s masterful use of language, his unapologetic jaunts into his own dreamlike imagination, makes Coelacanth a charming and warming tale. Leeds Guide


Tuesday 3 to Thursday 5 July at 9.30pm Magdalen College SchoolParty Time By Harold Pinter

Gavin, a wealthy and influential civil servant, is hosting a drinks party. But outside this elite gathering, roadblocks and soldiers abound. And what on earth’s happened to Jimmy? Harold Pinter’s vicious political satire is a stark exposé of class, power and social injustice in modern Britain. Performed by students of Magdalen College School. Tickets £6 discounts £4

Wednesday 27 to Friday 29 June at 7.30pm Stillpoint TheatreTriptych: Three Attempts at Love

A collection of three poignant, darkly funny and intriguing solo works exploring the human predicament of the struggle to love. Great seen individually or as a trilogy over three evenings.

The Art of Catastrophe (Wed 27): Helen’s marriage is falling apart. Can domestic espionage,a new friend and sexual fantasy guide her through the wreckage?

Steal Compass, Drive North, Disappear (Thu 28): Martin is attempting to hold down an international art career, academic life, a wife, two kids and a mistress. He’s struggling to contain the chaos, but he is not the only one on the run.

The Growing Room (Fri 29): Andrea is scared to love and her daughter is obsessed with danger. When a charismatic man crashes into their lives, everything changes forever.

Tickets £25 for three nights (discounts £20), or £10 each (discounts £8) Ages 16+



Friday 31 August and Saturday 1 September at 7.30pm Theatre FolksJamuna: Of a Woman in War and PeaceBy Selina Shelley

On the eve of her first exhibition, artist Jamuna faces a dilemma. Should she break free from the shackles of her past and risk being ostracized by her friends and family? Or keep quiet and break a promise? The play focuses on the personal battle fought by a freedom fighter in Bangladesh.

Theatre Folks is a recently-formed local troupe of young professionals and students, committed to exploring topical political and social themes.

Tickets £8 discounts £6 Ages 12+

Wednesday 5 to Saturday 8 September at 7.30pm Saturday 8 at 2.30pm Eyestrings TheatreThe Duchess of MalfiA World Premiere By John Webster

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust Like diamonds we are all cut with our own dust.

A woman pays the price for daring to transgress her social status. A powerful family is destroyed by passion and cruelty. The Duchess of Malfi, directed by Cheek by Jowl’s Associate Director Owen Horsley, is a merciless exploration of morality, class and sex.

Eyestrings Theatre is a company committed to producing bold interpretations of classic texts.


Thursday 13 and Friday 14 September at 7.30pm Amerrycan TheatreMy Name is BillWritten and performed by Bryan Bounds

Bill’s the most extraordinary loser you’ll ever meet. A crack storyteller. A brilliant stockbroker. And a raging alcoholic in search of redemption. He has one important decision left to make. His life and a million lost souls hang in the balance. This moving one-man show reveals what happens on the day Bill Wilson hits rock bottom, turns down a drink and creates Alcoholics Anonymous.



Friday 28 and Saturday 29 September at 7.30pm Fuel presents Inua Ellams’Black T-shirt Collection

Direct from the National Theatre sell-out run, comes this new play by award-winning Inua Ellams. Black T-shirt Collection is a story about two foster brothers building a global T-shirt brand. On their journey from a market in Nigeria to a sweatshop in China, Matthew and Muhammed discover the consequences of success.

Inua was born in Nigeria in 1984, and moved to the UK as a teenager. He merges visual art, poetry and theatre, telling stories with iconic imagery, humour and beauty.

Ellams’ poetry is smooth enough to melt in the ear, yet packed full of snap, crackle and pop. Time Out on The 14th Tale



Thursday 4 and Friday 5 October at 7.30pm Farnham MaltingsNorthern Soul By Victoria Melody

Northern Soul is a bit about northern soul, it’s also a bit about pigeons, but mainly it’s about me - Victoria Melody

Northern Soul is a hilarious one-woman show about Victoria’s curiosity for other people’s passions and her attempts to join in. Her eccentric ethnographic approach to art practice has found Victoria living with pigeon fanciers and being taught to dance by Northern Soul’s ex-champions.

This feel-good performance incorporates film, photos and paraphenalia in its comedic and engaging observation of unobserved Britain.

Surreal, funny and thoughtful. HHHH ThreeWeeks


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Saturday 23 June at 2.30pm and 7.30pmLive Canon’s Big Olympic Warm Up The Olympics are fast approaching and Live Canon is limbering up! Come along for a unique celebration of the games in poetry. Hear a selection of the poems nominated to be engraved on the wall of the Olympic village. Celebrate cycling, synchronized swimming, diving, sprinting, speed walking (and plenty of sporting disasters). Hear the incredible story of the injured French athlete who lost out in the triple jump but went on to take an Olympic medal for poetry…


Saturday 15 September at 7.30pmRichard Tyrone Jones’ Big Heart How do you fight back when your own heart tries to kill you?

For his thirtieth birthday healthy, gym-going Richard Tyrone Jones got an unexpected present: heart failure. This long-awaited, understandably-delayed, solo debut is a healthy prescription of cardiomyopoetry and anecdosage, which asks: can almost dying actually improve your life? Richard will be supported by local spoken word guests in his performance.

Fascinating, sobering, hilarious and ultimately uplifting. New Scientist




Saturday 6 October at 8pm Fifth Word in association with Nottingham PlayhouseBones

Nottingham, 1998. Nineteen-year-old Mark is living a life he never signed-up to. Heavy with the responsibility of caring for his broken mum and her baby and pining for a past of Panda Pops, eggy bread and Brian Clough, Mark knows he has to do something drastic – but how far will he go?

Jane Upton’s achingly honest portrayal of a boy struggling to find his place in a world that doesn’t want him, will break your heart, spit you out and then make you wonder why you cared in the first place.

Shockingly realistic…Left me agape in wide-eyed awe. HHHHH ThreeWeeks




Tuesday 25 to Thursday 27 September at 7.30pm Aakash Odedra’s Rising Rising, performed by Aakash Odedra, uses dance, video and music to explore different processes and aesthetics that create a new, personal language. Aakash performs solo pieces choreographed by Russell Maliphant, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Akram Khan and a piece of his own, with lighting by Michael Hulls. The performance uses his background in Kathak and Bharatanatyam creating a new flavour of contemporary dance. It‘s the dance equivalent of a red-carpet event… Guardian


Wednesday 12 September at 8pm Oxford Jazz Masters SeriesBEAM Three musicians share an expressive approach to improvisation in an ensemble with rich tonal colours. Special guests for this performance will be members of Oxford Improvisors, Paul Medley (clarinets and tenor sax), Bruno Guastalla (bandoneon and cello), Martin Hackett (analogue synthesizer).

Hosting the evening will be the OxJaMS trio; George Haslam (baritone sax and tarogato clarinet) Steve Kershaw (double bass) and Richard Leigh-Harris (piano).


Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 October at 7.30pm Yorke Dance ProjectWords Worth Following the critically acclaimed Americana, which played the BT in 2010,Yorke Dance Project presents its new show Words Worth. A mixed-bill of exceptional dance entertainment, the evening includes a new work, NOTED, by director Yolande Yorke-Edgell, based on letters written by iconic figures over the past five centuries. The bill also features her acclaimed piece City Limits. Guest choreographer Anton Du Beke presents his first work for a contemporary dance company, inspired by Twelfth Night. The evening is completed Bella Lewitzky’s iconic solo Song of a Woman.




Monday 13 to Saturday 18 August, every 15 minutes from 7pm to 10pm Fuel, in association with Roundhouse RadioEveryday Moments: Late night, with headphones, in a completely, utterly dark room By Hofesh Shechter In 2011 Fuel commissioned Everyday Moments; a series of podcasts designed to be enjoyed at a particular time and place. This is the podcast from choreographer and musician Hofesh Shechter, an invitation to move without inhibition. The audio installation lasts 15 minutes and has been created to be listened to using headphones, alone in a room. It is a fascinating experience, not to be missed.

Shechter is a true original. Guardian

Tickets £3

Saturday 7 July at 11am and 2pm TamTam Theatre CompanyLittle Hippo and his Magic Pen

For his birthday Little Hippo received lots of presents, but his favourite was a red pen from Daddy Hippo. Inside the red pen are the most beautiful things in the world, but how do we get them out?

Based on the story Petit Hippo et son Stylo Magique this interactive tale, told both in English and French, will invite even the smallest audience members to make their own use of Little Hippo’s pen.

Tickets £7.50 children £5.50 Ages 2 to 5

Saturday 30 June at 11am and 2pm Theatre of WiddershinsThe Elves and the Shoemaker

Inspired by the exquisite Ladybird book, Theatre of Widdershins (Rapunzel and the Tower of Doom) brings this classic fable to life using magical puppets, intricate design and original music. A truly magical production. Primary Times

Tickets £7 children £5 Ages 3+


Saturday 21 July at 11am, 2pm and 4pm Garlic TheatreFiddlesticks

Tap your feet and listen to the beat…

Fiddlesticks is the playful spirit of a violin who breaks free from his strings and leads us into a world of musical fantasy. Garlic Theatre (Little Red Robin Hood, Billy Goat’s Gruff) conjures a spellbinding tale of rhythmical twists and turns, with a lively blend of clowning, rod and shadow puppets, percussion and live music.

Tickets £7 children £5 Ages 4+

Saturday 6 October at 11am and 2pm Hiccup TheatreRumpelstiltskin A new version by Mike Kenny

He’s sneaky, He’s cheeky, He’s… Rumpelstiltskin! Follow the troubled Miller’s daughter as she tries to outwit the greatest trickster of them all...

Straw turns to gold, magic and mayhem are in the air. Before the sun rises will our brave heroine be able to solve the riddle and save the day or will rotten Rumpel double cross her once and for all?

Hiccup Theatre spins live music, puppetry and mischievous storytelling into a golden new version of this classic fairy-tale by acclaimed Olivier Award-winning writer Mike Kenny.





Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 September An Oxford Playhouse ProductionTea Time Devised and directed by Toby Hulse

A wonderfully silly celebration of meal times in words, song, music and dance, inspired by the games we have all played around the kitchen table. From the same great team that brought you the sell-out Bath Time, Tea Time is the perfect show for anyone who has ever made an island out of mash with a sea of gravy, pretended a spoon of yoghurt was a steam train, or realised that food is just as much fun at the end of your nose as it is in your mouth! If you thought tea time was just about eating you’ll be holding out your plate for more…

The perfect show for this very young age group. Oxford Times on Bath Time

Beautifully simple and entertaining… takes the audience into a world of imagination and fun games... filled with the contented sounds of giggles turning into deep belly laughs. Audience Member on Bath Time


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Tuesday 12 to Saturday 16 June7.30pm Arabian NightsAdapted by Alex Darby and the company

We are no other than a moving row of magic shadow-shapes that come and go… held in midnight by the master of the show.

A new, multi-sensory and excitingly visceral version of the tales of one thousand and one nights in Arabia.

Tickets £6 discounts £5 New Writing

University of Oxford Student Season: Trinity Term 2012


Tuesday 5 to Saturday 9 June 7.30pm ContractionsBy Mike Bartlett

Emma’s been seeing Darren. She thinks she’s in love. Her boss thinks she’s in breach of contract.

An ink-black comedy about the boundaries between work and play.


9.30pm Ivo Graham: A Degree Of Uncertainty

After stand-up adventures in Edinburgh, Los Angeles, Montreal and Loughborough, Ivo Graham (So You Think You’re Funny? winner 2009, Chortle Best Newcomer nominee 2010) bids the dreaming spires farewell as he prepares to graduate and chase the comedy bandwagon for real. Mawkish nostalgia. Misguided optimism. Minimal swearing.



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Tuesday 22 to Saturday 26 May7.30pm BugBy Tracy Letts

In a motel room outside Oklahoma City, a lonely waitress hiding from her abusive ex-husband is joined by a soft-spoken young drifter who might be an AWOL Gulf War veteran. And then they see the first bugs…


Tuesday 15 to Saturday 19 May7.30pm The Rain Starts A-Fallin’By Rory Platt

Back for their reunion, three twenty-somethings rediscover their old sixth form classroom. Ten years prior, we see them preparing to leave school, joking amongst each other and debating their futures. Experience a funny and scabrous look at teenage idealism – where it comes from, where it goes, and what it means to keep it alive.


9.30pm Cowboy MouthBy Sam Shepard and Patti Smith

Punk rock fantasist, Cavale, has kidnapped washed-up rocker, Slim, in a desperate attempt to make him her “rock-and-roll Jesus with a cowboy mouth”. But record sales will not decide his fate – or that of Cavale’s new saviour.




Tuesday 22 to Saturday 26 May

Tuesday 29 May to Saturday 2 June7.30pm The Deep Blue SeaBy Terence Rattigan

Hester Collyer is trapped. Torn between her well-respected but utterly passionless husband, and the young, charming pilot who is incapable of ever loving her, Hester’s crisis drives her to the very edge.

Set amid the domestic claustrophobia of a North London flat in the early 1950s, but just as relevant today, the play explores our relation to our desires, our conceptions of love and how society looks upon those it cannot understand.


9.30pm Fear By Ada Gafter O’Higgins

Two individuals grapple with an absence…What is it that lurks behind the apocalyptic sky? Beneath the skirt, behind the mask? In the absence of all else… Fear. A theatrical construction exploring the construction of the self.


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There’s a rich and diverse line-up of shows from University of Oxford student companies to take us into the summer here at the BT Studio. We will see exciting new experimental work devised or scripted by the theatre-makers of the future, alongside fresh productions of cutting edge plays from recent innovators such as Mike Bartlett and Sam Shepard.

We also present a timeless classic by Terence Rattigan, and, as part of an exchange between national student groups, Oxford University Dramatic Society is hosting a Nottingham University group for one night only, to share their version of the ever popular Patrick Marber play Closer. Added to that there’s a week of performances by an up-and-coming stand-up comedy act and we round things off with the chance to experience the studio transformed into an Arabian Nights storytelling tent…

So there’s something to suit all tastes in the array of attractions and distractions filling Trinity term, creating the perfect build-up to a hot summer season of visiting shows as we leap into June. Come along and enjoy great entertainment at Oxford’s most intimate black box venue.

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Tuesday 8 to Saturday 12 May7.30pm Court By Hanzla MacDonald

Dead time is resurrected as we enter the psyches of those awaiting trial. Two lawyers, implicated in horrific past acts of injustice, catch up with their guilty selves as they confront one another. Court squares up to a fast moving, intense and darkly humorous world of real suffering.


Thursday 26 April7.30pmCloser By Patrick Marber

Four lives, four loves, and four dangerous people overlap and inter-twine. Truth and lies, reality and pretence, performance and real-life all seem closer than ever as the red-hot web of deceit seems sure to consume everyone within it.

OUDS welcomes Nottingham University’s The New Theatre with a sizzling, sexy and demanding play, re-created here with more humour, intensity and passion than ever before.


What’s On...Burton Taylor Studio Student Season April to June 2012Trinity Term

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