What's on
Videogames:
Design/Play/Disrupt
Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt celebrates the innovative and rapidly changing design field of videogames. The exhibition explores videogame design since the mid-2000s, when major technological advancements – such as increased access to broadband, social media and newly available means of making – transformed the way games are designed, discussed and played.
“A Time of Hope”
Oxford Marks Holocaust Memorial Day
This month Keble College will hold its 12th Holocaust Memorial Day service, which welcomes the sounds of both Keble College Choir and that of the Oxford Jewish Congregation, OxfordShir. The latter is named for the Hebrew word for song, Shir. “It seems to work,” conductor John Dunston says warmly of the wordplay. He and I are both guests of Nevsky Everett, Chaplain at Keble.
Mandela:
His Message Lives On
Evan Davis:
Deep-Rooted Optimism
Suzi Ruffell:
Rationale in the Ridiculous
Barking on Time:
Mark Williams as Doctor Dolittle
Review:
Jersey Boys
Review:
Alice & Bob’s Whopping Christmas Cracker Show/Party
Sitting in its own unique space somewhere in between a pantomime, a sketch show and a party, Alice and Bob’s offering keeps a small but enthused crowd laughing, treating us to pigeon costumes, carols and a full-scale wrapping paper war.
Stephen K Amos
Prime Season for Decent Comics
Just days after returning from six weeks “doing stuff in Europe”, stand-up Stephen K Amos talks scary times, James Bond and his new live show with Sam Bennett.
Sticky Carpets
and the Snowflake Generation
Generations are at the heart of his new play Snowflake. Set at Christmas, it’s the story of Andy (aged 43) and his daughter Maya (21) who haven’t spoken in the three years since she left home...
Blenheim Palace:
Festival of Literature, Film and Music 2018
This year’s Blenheim Palace Festival of Literature, Film and Music (to give it its formal title) will as always enhance that legacy, as Jeremy Smith discovers...
Better For Tragedy
Michael Pennington
2014 saw Pennington play the king on the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn. Out of this came his book, King Lear in Brooklyn, the focus of his appearance at Thame Arts and Literature Festival...
All Saints
“It’s the whole makeup of your past. It’s nostalgic. It’s important.”
A few questions that I need to know... 90s nostalgic Richard Loftus talks to Natalie Appleton and finds out why you should see All Saints on their winter headline tour.