Get ready for a spring bursting with inspirational performance and great entertainment at Oxford Playhouse!
In January, Oxford Playhouse opens the UK tour of The Shark is Broken. Fifty years on from the 1975 smash hit Jaws, this critically acclaimed Olivier award-nominated production celebrates movie history as it peeks at the choppy waters behind Hollywood’s first blockbuster and imagines what happened on board ‘The Orca’ when the cameras stopped rolling. Starring Ian Shaw as his father, Robert.
Nathaniel Parker and Dame Siân Phillips lead the cast in a double bill from one of the “supreme dramatists of the 20th century”, Terence Rattigan. His one-act masterpieces Table Number Seven (from Separate Tables) and The Browning Version will be paired for the very first time in Theatre Royal Bath’s Summer 1954.
The final years of Sir Thomas More, the 16th-century Lord Chancellor of England, are depicted by celebrated actor Martin Shaw (Judge John Deed, Inspector George Gently, Hobson’s Choice) in Robert Bolt’s award-winning play, A Man for All Seasons. As Henry VIII seeks a divorce from Catherine of Aragon, Sir Thomas faces a difficult choice between his loyalty to the king and his own conscience - an internal conflict that shaped English history.
Oxford Playhouse welcome back the Olivier Award-winning Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) following its triumphant West End run. With the story told from the viewpoint of the servants in the Bennet family house, Isobel McArthur’s brilliant and joyous adaptation is a hilarious, irreverent and affectionate reimagining of Jane Austen’s best-loved novel, complete with a string of karaoke hits.
There’s a high-octane version of Macbeth, with an Out of Chaos production in partnership with The Playhouse. The production was first developed by Artistic Director of Oxford Playhouse Mike Tweddle in 2015. Award-winning actors, Hannah Barrie and Paul O’Mahony boldly play more than 20 roles as Shakespeare’s brutal tragedy is given new life in a haunting, breakneck adaptation which retains the intensity and intrigue of the original cautionary tale.
With an outstanding line-up of family fun, contemporary dance and comedy too in the city’s heart, there’s plenty to look forward to in the New Year.
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