Ballet
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
The Mill Theatre, Banbury
Sunday 2.30pm and 6pm
themillartscentre.co.uk
The Vienna Festival Ballet is a favourite at Banbury and now brings its traditional, enchanting The Sleeping Beauty. This classic fairytale set to Tchaikovsky’s magnificent score features stunning choreography, beautiful costumes and talented dancers thanks to celebrated Austrian dancer Peter Mallek whose com-pany spends eight months of the year taking ballet to all corners of the UK to take the classics to as wide an audience as possible.
Comedy
SO Comedy Live!
The North Wall, Summertown, 8pm, thenorthwall.org
The North Wall has a new monthly resident comedy night it wants to shout about featuring “bright young sensation” local comedian Matt Richardson as its new MC. This month, Matt will welcome Tom Wrigglesworth and Eric Lampaert to the North Wall stage, both names to watch on the comedy circuit.
Children’s show
Michaela Strachan
Tomorrow (Friday) 5pm
Call 01865 305305 or oxfordplayhouse.com
Popular TV presenter Michaela Strachan returns to her roots in children’s entertainment with this adaption of her new children’s book Michaela Strachan’s Really Wild Adventures which takes families on a journey through an alphabet jungle of animal rhyme. Antelopes to zebras, orphaned orangutans to polar bear dentistry, this is Michaela’s home turf, taking your little ones on a whistle stop interactive tour complete with poetry, dancing, music and lots of fascinating wildlife facts.
Drama
ENGLAND STREET
Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford
Wednesday, April 17, to Sat, April 20, 7.30pm.
n Call 01865 305305 or oxfordplayhouse.com Too close for comfort maybe, but this is a tale of the worst kind of reality. The country is England but not as we know it. In the wake of brutal riots, new laws divide the land and Ali and Brennan are on the run.
Fundraiser
LYNNE TRUSS
The Theatre Chipping Norton
Saturday, April 13, 7.45pm
Call 01608 642350 or chippingnortontheatre.com
Best known for her book Eats, Shoots & Leaves, join author, playwright and apostrophe heroine Lynne Truss for a night of hilarious and brilliantly perceptive ‘talking head’ monologues. For this unique fundraising event in support of The Theatre, Lynne will be joined by a fantastic line-up of her friends from across showbusiness.
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