Upcoming Performances
This page features upcoming productions from students at The University of Oxford. Whether plays, musicals or comedy, it’s all here! To add your performance to the page, use the form linked to the right.
The Seagull
This is a fresh take on Chekhov: a live original score will combine with bird-like choreography to transform this classic play into a theatrical spectacle.
Iphigenia at Aulis
Two and a half thousand years on, Iphigenia at Aulis presents one of the most psychologically wrought tales from ancient myth, and asks: how can any of us – a father, a citizen, a nation – come to justify acts of violence – to others, to ourselves?
The Slip
Four friends. A collision. A truth that threatens to eat them alive. Orla Wyatt’s second play is a dark and gripping drama about friendship, deceit, and betrayal.
Scenes with Girls
Tosh and Lou. 22 scenes. Other friends have come, got boyfriends and gone. So what? Tosh and Lou have each other. This is love. This is enough.
Fulgens and Lucrece
St Hilda’s College and occasional theatre invite you to a one time only performance of Fulgens and Lucrece by Henry Medwall, in the Pavilion on Saturday 6th June at 5.30pm. This lively reimagining features bad jokes, lip-sync battles, debates, teenage rebellion, violence and togas.
The Crucible
When a group of girls are caught dancing in the woods, they fend off punishment by accusing others of witchcraft. What starts as self-preservation spirals into mass hysteria: as accusations fly, the accused face impossible choices.
Our House
With music that will make you want to dance in the aisles, performed by a moving band of actor-musicians, characters that will make you laugh til you cry, and big dance numbers that will knock your socks off - there’s no reason not to join our House of Fun!
Jerusalem
From The Magdalen Players. Melancholic and bucolic in equal measure, Jez Butterworth’s masterpiece interrogates the splendour and the decay of Englishness, the confusion and clutter of identity, and the desperate urge to belong.
Twelfth Night (in 24 hours)
Society/Production Company: Pinetree Productions
Show Title: Twelfth Night (in 24 hours)
Performance Dates: 9 May
Performance Start Time: 6pm
Location: Lady Margaret Hall Gardens
Ticket Link: http://www.ticketsource.com/pinetree-productions/t-ejjoned
Our Twelfth Night will be staged in the Lady Margaret Hall gardens (weather-permitting) or, otherwise, the college’s Simpkins Lee Theatre. It will be rehearsed entirely in the 24 hours preceding its performance, embracing the chaotic and feel-good nature of the classic Shakespearean comedy. Expect a caffeine-fuelled display of creativity, ranging from spontaneous acting choices to unexpected laughs, all through the original drama of Shakespeare’s text.
The Secrets of My Faliure
This brilliantly written play promises lots of laughs and an equal amount of self-reflection. Follow George on a journey about relationships, the weight of society, priorities in life, but most importantly: chasing your dreams.
Oleanna
A razor-sharp, explosive drama exploring power, privilege and gender politics in the education setting. Set in an American college campus, it follows the fallout after misconduct accusations against a professor. It forces audiences to confront vitally relevant questions, especially pertinent in Oxford nowadays.
The Flick
Ranked by The Guardian as the fourth best play of the 21st century, Annie Baker’s hilarious, devastating, wonderful play explores how to find connection in an increasingly atomised world.
Late Company
The Oxford University Malaysian & Singaporean Students' Association is proud to present our rendition of Late Company as part of our inaugural student production.
Things I Know to Be True
Bob and Fran are dealing with the unfathomable: their children are growing up. And not in the way they want them to, either: Mia, Rosie, Pip and Ben are ending promising relationships, getting robbed in foreign countries, cheating on their spouses and committing wide-scale fraud. What on earth is going on in the Price family?
Deaths and Entrances
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.
A Life's Tale
Six strangers are rehearsing a play designed to help recently bereaved people recover from their grief. However, they soon learn they are grieving the same person.
Translations
Brian Friel’s acclaimed play. At its core, Translations is about the power of language within erasure of culture, a legacy that still actively harms Ireland today.
Perudo
Amidst rolling dice and bluffing partners, Perudo poses a more fraught gamble: that of admitting that nostalgia is an inadequate currency for friendship. Pour yourself a drink and join us for a night of delicious chaos.
World Premiere: An Improvised Comedy
Every night, a brand-new, never-before-seen, never-to-be-seen-again play will burst to life, created on the spot and shaped entirely by the audience.
Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise
The annual production from Oxford University Chinese Drama Society
The Oxford Revue Makes Perfect Sense
Come see Oxford’s oldest comedy group, the Oxford Revue, at The Old Fire Station for two nights only in “The Oxford Revue Makes Perfect Sense”
Monstrous Regiment
Adaption of the book by Terry Pratchett.
Polly Perks' brother has gone missing in action. The fight? A war of attrition between the small nation of Borogravia and its powerful neighbour Zlobenia that has swallowed almost every young man in the country.
Brew Hill
Gordon suffers from panic attacks and is obsessed with Berlin. Nat is a recovering alcoholic who has visions of the Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel. And Pieter, the great observer of wit and folly, has something he needs to tell us.
Dreams
Dreams, a new play by Peter Hardisty and Charlotte Macari, follows James and Emma as they meet and grow closer together.
Tick... Tick... BOOM!
A one-act semi-autobiographical musical that focuses on self-doubt, pursuing dreams, and asks what it truly means to be an artist.
You Got Me
A heartfelt, tragicomic exploration of memory and identity, Oliver Martin’s new play You Got Me explores what connects us to others, and what ultimately drags us apart.
La Voix Humaine
Staging Anthony Wood’s translation of Jean Cocteau’s text, this Full Moon Theatre production asks whether communication barriers can ever truly be overcome.
The Glass Menagerie
One of the most enduring and intimate plays of the twentieth century. Presented by Crazy Child Productions.
My Dead Mum's AI Boyfriend
A brand new dark comedy from Interrobang Productions, reflecting on love, loss, lies, and language in the age of AI. Come along for the ride!