Ada Milea is a Romanian singer, writer and actor who, with nothing more than a guitar and remarkable vocal gymnastics, performs songs inhabited by a host of bizarre characters and events. When she first came to Oxford last year, she performed a musical dramatisation of a Romanian poem based on the story of Robinson Crusoe. With the co-operation of international violinist Alex Balanescu her story featured a large cast of surreal characters, including a pirate with two wooden legs and a mermaid prostitute. This was a premiere performance which demonstrated both Ada Milea's rich creativity and her extraordinary charisma as a singer and actor.

This week she is back in Oxford with a new performance which takes on an even larger literary work than Defoe's Crusoe. She is working her magic on Cervantes's mammoth novel Don Quixote in which she herself takes on the role of the errant knight, and no doubt a fair number of others along the way, while supported by Romanian actor Bogdan Buraciano as the portly servant Sancho and Adrian Cristescu on piano.

The story that emerges near the beginning of the novel reveals Quixote, deluded by the reading of too many romantic tales of wandering knights, setting off across the Spanish plains and meeting a serving girl whom, in his deluded state, he believes to be a lady in distress. The taunts and batterings that Quixote receives at the hands of the local population, who see him for the unhinged fool he is, provides a rich tapestry for Ada Milea's particular talents.

In her native Romania, Milea has something close to cult status, having trained as an actor with the National Theatre of Tg Mures and worked briefly with the renowned Cirque du Soleil. She has been building her own career for some years with her inspiring and surreal take on the world. Her Oxford performance is on Wednesday at 7pm. Entrance is free but booking is essential on 020 7752 0134 or office@icr-london.co.uk