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.

Oleanna
Apr
29
to 2 May

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.

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The Secrets of My Faliure
May
9
to 10 May

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.

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Twelfth Night (in 24 hours)
May
9

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.

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Jerusalem
May
19
to 23 May

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.

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Our House
May
20

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!

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The Flick
Mar
10
to 14 Mar

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.

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Late Company
Mar
6
to 8 Mar

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.

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Things I Know to Be True
Mar
4
to 7 Mar

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?

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Deaths and Entrances
Mar
3
to 7 Mar

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.

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A Life's Tale
Mar
3
to 7 Mar

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.

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Translations
Feb
25
to 28 Feb

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.

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Perudo
Feb
24
to 28 Feb

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.

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Monstrous Regiment
Feb
18
to 21 Feb

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.

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Brew Hill
Feb
17
to 21 Feb

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.

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Dreams
Feb
17
to 21 Feb

Dreams

Dreams, a new play by Peter Hardisty and Charlotte Macari, follows James and Emma as they meet and grow closer together.

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You Got Me
Feb
10
to 14 Feb

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.

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La Voix Humaine
Feb
10
to 14 Feb

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.

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Iolanthe
Nov
27
to 29 Nov

Iolanthe

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The Michaelmas Term production from The Oxford University Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

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The Creditors
Nov
25
to 29 Nov

The Creditors

From Crazy Child Productions. You're invited to a night of rides hiding razor-sharp intensity, as Strindberg’s The Creditors whirls love, jealousy, and revenge into a fairy-tale gone deliciously wrong.

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