Theatre

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Oxford Apollo Oxford (0870 6063500): Sat Aug 19, CITV presents Terry Nutkins and Chris Rogers in Brilliant Creatures Live.

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Oxford Playhouse (01865 798600): Fri and Sat, 10.30am and 2pm, Spot's Birthday Party. Aug 14-Aug 26, Starchild - Oxford Playhouse Summer School for ten to 16-year-olds (no audition necessary), stage a musical in two weeks, tel 01865 247134 for details. Aug 28-Sept 2, 7.30pm (Fri 8), Thurs and Sat mat 2.30, Theatre Royal Bath Productions presents God and Stephen Hawking by Robin Hawdon, starring Robert Hardy and Stephen Boxer. Sept 6-16, eves 7.30 (Fri 8), Sat and Thurs mats 2.30, Guy Chapman Productions presents Another Country by Julian Mitchell, directed by Stephen Henry; cast includes Patrick Ryecart as Vaughan Cunningham. Sept 20-22, Oxfordshire Touring Theatre presents Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey. Sept 29-30, 8pm, Siobhan Davies Dance Company presents a world stage premiere with post show talk Aug 29, plus workshops.

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Old Fire Station, Oxford (01865 794490): Fri and Sat 7.30pm, Sat mat 2.30, The Palatine Theatre Company presents Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. Until Aug 26, 7.30pm (not Sun), mats Wed and Sat 2.30, Dionysus Theatre Company presents Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Marlowe's The Changeling (tel theatre for times). Aug 29-Sept 2, 7.30pm, Sat mat 2.30, The Fat Tree Theatre Company presents Working Title, two playwrights find themselves drawn into a world of lust, hatred and Trivial Pursuit when the characters they have created come to life.

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Jongleurs Comedy Club (0845 6081818): 7.45pm, Fri, Andre Vincent. Thurs, Tony Morewood, Mike Gunn.

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Open Air Creation Shakespeare: At Magdalen College School grounds until Sept 2, A Midsummer Night's Dream eves 8pm and until Sat Aug 26 (mainly matinees at 2.30), Alice Through the Looking Glass. 01865 798600. Children's workshops, for further details tel 01865 250636.

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Wadham College Gardens: Fri and Sat 7.30pm, Bold and Saucy Theatre Company presents Twelfth Night. 01865 794490.

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Oxford Town Hall: Aug 18 and 19 at 7.30pm, Youth Opera Spectacular. Benjamin Britten's Noyes Fludde performed by young people from Oxford and twin cities Leiden, Bonn, Grenoble and Perm, conducted by John Lubbock of the Orchestra of St John's, Smith Square. Includes special performance by Perm Youth Ballet. 01865 252537.

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Mill Theatre and Restaurant, Sonning (0118 969 8000): Eves 8.15pm (dinner from 6.30pm), Sat mats 2.15pm (lunch from 12.30pm): Aug 8-Sept 9, Outside Edge, a comedy by Richard Harris, directed by June Howson.

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Wycombe Swan Theatre (01494 512000): Fri and at 7.30pm, Sat mat 2.30, Wycombe Swan Summer Youth Project presents Oliver!

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Stonor Park: Sun 7.30pm, Chapterhouse Theatre Company presents Romeo and Juliet. Bring your own seating (blankets). Gates open 5pm. 01491 638587.

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Unicorn Theatre, Abingdon: Aug 16-19, Studio Theatre Club presents Three's Company.

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Oxfordshire Touring Theatre with SNAP Theatre Company: Fri Aug 18, Around the World in 80 Days at Carterton Community College, 1.30pm and Church Green, Witney at 6.30pm. Free.

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Watermill, Bagnor, near Newbury (01635 46044): until Aug 26, eves 7.30, last night 6.30, Thurs and Sat mats 2.30, Carmen.

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