Culture

In October 2019, at Milton Keynes Theatre we will be celebrating our 20th birthday – we know, we don’t look a day over 18, do we…! It’s a landmark occasion, and we are inviting everyone to help us celebrate.

Directed by Christopher Luscombe and featuring timeless classics – including ‘Sweet Transvestite’, ‘Damnit Janet’, and of course, the pelvic-thrusting ‘Time Warp’ – Richard O’Brien’s legendary Rocky Horror Show returns to the UK as part of a sell-out worldwide tour in 2019, having now been seen by over 30 million theatregoers.

Frideswide was clearly a remarkable young woman, who overcame formidable challenges. Yet while overseas visitors to Oxford encounter her story, through a glowing stained glass window by Edward Burne-Jones near the saint’s medieval shrine, not many local people know it.  

Sparked by a question I posed to a friend – whether he could name me five female directors (only to realise that I was hard-pressed to reel off five names myself) I started to look deeper into how much women have helped to shape a medium I adore so much. 

Based on the British Book Awards Biography of the Year, Toast is a new play based on Nigel Slater’s award-winning autobiography. Vividly recreating suburban England in the 1960s, Nigel’s childhood is told through the tastes and smells he grew up with - to reflect this, audiences will be offered samples of the dishes and tastes central to his story during the show. From making the perfect sherry trifle, waging war over cakes through to the playground politics of sweets and the rigid rules of restaurant dining, this is a moving and evocative tale of love, loss and...toast.

Listen closely, not for very much longer.... The New Theatre Oxford is looking to host the city’s biggest Time Warp- and very soon!

Denise Welch talks her 60s, stripping and sobriety with Sam Bennett...

Paper Nations, a creative partnership led by Bath Spa University’s Research Centre for Transnational Creativity and Education (TRACE) and funded by Arts Council England, is calling