Daily Dose - Friday 3rd Week

Hello. Happy Friday!

2.00 pm - Barney Live! The Let's Go Tour (dear god, again)

7pm - The Week That Was, Ruby Suns. £7, Carling Academy Oxford.
Power pop!

7.15 pm - The Last Five Years - O'Reilly Theatre, Keble College (£7, £6 conc) By Jason Robert Brown. A fresh and contemporary musical from a Tony-Award winning composer. Chronicles a young couple's romance in a new and exciting way: her story starts at the end of their relationship; his begins on the day they met. Funny and uplifting modern romance.

7.30pm The Last Train Out of Here by Helen McCabe - BT

8.00pm Liberty - Oxford Playhouse (£10.50-£23.50) By Glyn Maxwell. Lifeblood Theatre Co & Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. Thrilling and relevant adaptation of Anatole France's 1912 novel Les Dieux ont Soif about fanaticism in the French Revolution.

8.00pm - PRDCTV at the Jericho Tavern. £5, for amazing electronica.

8.00pm - Hysteria - The North Wall (£12/£10) The world is ending. And it's happening at table 9... Inspired by T.S. Eliot's poem of the same name, Hysteria makes us witnesses to a painstaking attempt at social interaction.

8.00pm - Johnny's Sexual Kitchen, Reservoir Cats. The Wheatsheaf. Jazz, rock, Blues among other styles...

9pm - Les Clochards. Chester Arms. Free admission. Part Maurice Chevalier, part Elvis

9.30pm - All Roads Lead to Rome - William Shakespeare, adapted by Will Maynard - BT

Daily Dose - Thursday 3rd Week

Busy day ahead. To mention a few: Photography in the chemistry department, Art in the botanical gardens, and Purple Dinosaurs performing in the New Theatre...

1.00-4.00pm (drop in any time) The Big Draw: small worlds
Big artworks at The Oxford Botanical Gardens. Explore the Garden's plants through microscopes, and turn them into sun catchers to take home or giant ‘plantscapes’ to remain on display at the Garden.

2.30pm - Liberty - Oxford Playhouse (£10.50-£23.50) By Glyn Maxwell.
Lifeblood Theatre Co & Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. Thrilling and relevant adaptation of Anatole France's 1912 novel Les Dieux ont Soif about fanaticism in the French Revolution.

3.30pm - Barney Live! The Let's Go Tour - New Theatre (£10-£12)
Barney, BJ and Baby Bop are going on a super-dee-duper musical adventure with their newest dino friend, Riff. (Yes, really!)

5.15pm - Still life photography class - Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Main Lecture Theatre

7.15 pm - The Last Five Years - O'Reilly Theatre Keble College (£7, £6 conc) By Jason Robert Brown.
A fresh and contemporary musical from a Tony-Award winning composer. Chronicles a young couple's romance in a new and exciting way: her story starts at the end of their relationship; his begins on the day they met. Funny and uplifting modern romance.

7.30pm - Liberty - Oxford Playhouse (£10.50-£23.50) By Glyn Maxwell.
Lifeblood Theatre Co & Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. Thrilling and relevant adaptation of Anatole France's 1912 novel Les Dieux ont Soif about fanaticism in the French Revolution.

7.30pm - The Last Train Out of Here by Helen McCabe - BT

7.30pm - Tango Siempro from Big Village. £14 (£11 concessions). A 'world-class' tango performance, brought to your door in Oxford!!

7.30pm - Together – Swedish film about sex, revolution and Abba in the Stockholm of 1970's

Presented by International Cinema Club in Lecture Room 2, Thom Building, Engineering Department. Sign up to become a member any Thursday 7-7.30pm. £7.50 per term or £15 per annum

8-11pm - Catweazle Club - East Oxford Community Centre (£4).

A weekly performance space for music, story-telling, and poetry recital.

8.00pm - Hysteria - The North Wall (£12/£10). The world is ending, and it's happening at table 9... Inspired by T.S. Eliot's poem of the same name, Hysteria makes us witnesses to a painstaking attempt at social interaction.

8.00pm - Abby Lathe and the Lovelies. £13.50 (£11.50 concessions). - Jacqueline du Pre Music Building.
With performances at venues as varied as Glastonbury and the Queen Elizabeth Hall, this band's varied styles and versatile musicianship is sure to hit the right spot.

8.00pm - 9.30pm - Paul Farley Poetry Reading - Christ Church Lecture Room 1.
Acclaimed Scottish poet hosted by Oxford University Poetry Society. £3, free for members of OUPS.

9.30pm - All Roads Lead to Rome by William Shakespeare, adapted by Will Maynard - BT

And you can cap it all off with either Supermarket (Baby Love Bar) or Eclectricity (Cellar).

Daily Dose - Wednesday 3rd Week

1:15pm to 2:00pm - Lunchtime Recital {Adam West (piano)} - New College Ante-Chapel

7.15pm - The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown - Keble O'Reilly Theatre. Time-bending musical about a young couple's romance: her story starts at the end of their relationship; his begins on the day they met. Fresh and funny. £7/£6 conc

7.30pm - Sing-A-Long-A Abba - New Theatre - exactly what it says on the tin. £17

7.30pm - The Last Train Out of Here by Helen McCabe - BT

9.30pm - All Roads Lead to Rome by William Shakespeare, adapted by Will Maynard - BT

Daily Dose - Tuesday 2nd Week

1.30pm, 4pm, 6.30pm, 8.45pm, and 11.30pm - Burn after Reading (Phoenix Picturehouse)- starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt and John Malkovich. This film supposedly combines spies, the 'dark side of humanity' and black humour

1.45pm - Trinity Life drawing - should be 7 to 9 tonight but it's v. oversubscribed. To sign up for a spot later in the term contact Cicely Hadman at Trinity.

7.30pm The Last Train Out of Here by Helen McCabe - BT Prices: £5/4
Three teenagers thrown together by their parents’ remarriage. With tensions running high, it’s only a matter of time before the situation reaches boiling point.

7pm - Does It Offend You, Yeah? - The Regal, £10, Electro Rock gig

9.30 pm - All Roads Lead To Rome by William Shakespeare, adapted by Will Maynard - BT £5/4
The two greatest love affairs of all time are viewed afresh in this tapestry of scenes from 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'Antony and Cleopatra': "Hell is to love no more".

Daily Dose - Monday 3rd Week

1:45pm , 4:15pm, 9:00pm - Quiet Chaos, Phoenix Picture House.
Serene drama highly acclaimed at Berlin Film Festival

2:15 pm - APGRD Lecture, Classics Centre, 66 St Giles
David Beard: 'Incidental' Music?: Settings of Greek Tragedy'

6:30pm- Paris, je t'aime, Phoenix Picture House

A collection of short films by different internation directors. A very specific mood is required - they're all about love and all set in Paris

7:30pm - Magdalen Film Soc, Magdalen Auditorium. £3

Won;t somebody think of the children?' Night - 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days (2007) followed by L'enfant (2005).

8:00pm - Oxford Imps, The Wheatsheaf. £3

9.15pm The Free Beer Show, The Cellar. £7
The Cellar's regular (amazing) comedy night. This week it is Scott Capuro ( "Enthralling... deliciously catty" - The Guardian)

Daily Dose - Sunday 3rd Week

What a lot there is for you lot to do today. So long Sunday blues.

11.15am (also 4.15pm) - Head down to the Phoenix to see Times and Winds - a film about an isolated rural community in the Turkish mountains and two young boys who are not happy. Sounds like a laugh.

1.30pm (also at 4pm, 6.30pm, 8.45pm) - Burn after Reading - starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt and John Malkovich this film's supposedly combining spies, the 'dark side of humanity' and black humour (showing at Phoenix Picturehouse). Another hum-dinger from the Cohen brothers no doubt.

St Anne's Sundays once again: still life drawing in the bar 2-4 (free materials); creative writing 'show and tell' at 7pm (free hot chocolate); screening of The Breakfast Club at 8.15pm (also free).

7-9pm - Life drawing at Fusion Arts at the East Oxford Community Centre on Cowley Rd. £10/£9 concessions. Materials provided.

7.30pm - Magdalen Film Society presents Hard Candy (2005). £3 Magdalen Auditorium.

1.45pm, 6.45pm, 9pm - Return to the Phoenix to see Quiet Chaos - a 'serene drama' (whatever that means) which went down well at the Berlin Film Festival apparently.

Don't forget Sunday Roast at the Cellar this evening. It's being revitalized after a year or two in the wilderness so it's worth a look. Scrabble, tea, cake, live music - what could be better?

Daily Dose - Saturday 2nd week

1.30pm (also at 4pm, 6.30pm, 8.45pm) Burn after Reading - starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt and John Malkovich this film's supposedly combining spies, the 'dark side of humanity' and black humour (showing at Phoenix Picturehouse)

1.45pm (also at 4.15pm) Quiet Chaos - serene drama highely acclaimed at Berlin Film Festival (showing at Phoenix Picturehouse)

2.30pm Proof by David Auburn - OFS

7.30pm Proof by David Auburn - OFS

7.30pm Shaolin Monks - Wheel of Life. Witness the ultimate martial-arts masters demonstrate their incredible feats of strength and skill. Everybody loves Kung-Fu fighting. New Theatre, Oxford £14.50 - £25

7.30pm Samson Agonistes The Milton Consort. Song, lute and flute to celebrate the 400th Anniversary of the Birth of John Milton.

Daily Dose - Friday 2nd Week

1:15 pm - Ashmolean Lunchtime Talk. FREE
Architectural Vistas

2:00 pm - Cameron Mackintosh Script Library Visit, English Faculty.
Incredible collection of plays at your disposal. Come find your cuppers masterpiece.

6:30 pm- Box of Tricks, BT. Students, £4.
Don't confuse this with the store room of Ann Summers.

7:30 pm - Proof by David Auburn, OFS.

11:00 pm - Annie Mac et al. Carling Academy. £15

Daily Dose - Thursday 2nd Wek

2:00 pm - 6:00 pm- OFS Studio Drop In
Informal information session about using the OFS as a venue.

5:30pm - Ruskin Life Drawing

5:30pm - Richard Dawkins : Charles Simonyi Lecture. Oxford Playhouse

6:30 pm- Box of Tricks, BT. Students, £4.
Don't confuse this with the store room of Ann Summers.

7:30 pm - Oxford University Poetry Society, Teddy Hall Old Dining Hall, £3.
'Poetaster' : wine and nibbles included.

7:00pm - 9:00pm - Figure Drawing, East Oxford Community Centre, Cowley Rd. £9 concessions.

7.30pm - International Cinema Club in Lecture Room 2, Thom Building, Engineering Department. £7.50 per term or £15 per annum
The Year of Living Dangerously - Gibso, Journo, Indo.

Daily Dose - Wednesday 2nd Week

2-4pm How did their gardens grow? Talk from Linda Farrar on the private gardens of Ancient Egypt. Booking required - £5.

6pm - Life Drawing, The Jam Factory. £5

6:30 pm- Box of Tricks, BT. Students, £4.
Don't confuse this with the store room of Ann Summers.

7.30pm What makes us human? Talk from Robin Dunbar on human evolution. Science Oxford, St Clements. £3

7.30pm Proof by David Auburn - OFS

Daily Dose - Tuesday 2nd Week

1:15 pm - Ashmolean Lunchtime Lecture, FREE
Delftware and Majolica. Bulls welcome.

6:30 pm- Box of Tricks, BT. Students, £4.
Don't confuse this with the store room of Ann Summers.

7:00 pm - The God Delusion Debate II : Return of the Dawkins. Museum of Natural History, Parks Road.
Dawks vs. Dr. John Lennox, author of God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?

7:00 pm - Mystic Sufi Music and Literature. St. Anthony's College. FREE
Mystic poetry, storytelling, wit and philosophy by Latif Bolat. Spritual.

Daily Dose - Monday 2nd Week

Sorry so late today... the inevitable essay crisis.

7:00 pm - Noah and the Whale, Carling Academy. £7
Someone commented that we might as well rename ourselves the Ukulele Appreciation Society. We could, but it took us ages to come up with a decent acronym.

7:00 pm - Seductive Serial Killer Night, Magdalen Auditorium. £3 non members
Magdalen Film Soc. will be showing Matador (1986) and The Talented Mr Ripley (1999)

7:30 pm - My Brilliant Divorce, The Oxford Playhouse. £11.50
Feeling middle-aged?

7:30 pm - Proof, by David Auburn, OFS. Students £7.

8:00 pm - Oxford Imps, The Wheatsheaf

9:15 pm - The Free Beer Show, The Cellar. £7.
This week it's Reginald D. Hunter : 'Fantastic, funny, sexy' The Scotsman.

Daily Dose - Sunday 2nd Week

St Anne's Sundays - FREE

A fantastic way to spend a quiet Sunday afternoon...

2.00 pm - 4.00 pm - Still life drawing, St Anne's Bar
7.00 pm - Relaxed creative writing workshop in St Annes Bar.
8.15 pm - The Celebration showing FREE in St Anne's.

7:30 pm - The Burial at Thebes (after Antigone), Oxford Playhouse. Students, £15.
Seamus Heaney's translation, Dominique Le Gendre's music, and double Nobel prizewinner Derek Walcott's direction. A dream-team.

7:30 pm - Magdalen Film Society, Magdalen Auditorium. £3 non-members.
Persepolis.
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Daily Dose - Friday 1st Week

2.00pm:
Some BT workshops: "Selling the Show!" Marketing & Press in the theatre with Lisa Wood, Marketing Office, and Kayleigh Hellin, Press & Marketing Officer at Oxford Playhouse followed by Voice and Performance with Robert Bristow, Studio Manager of the Burton Taylor Studio.

7.oopm:
Holy F*ck + Kelpe gig at Carling Academy Oxford (£8). The Canadian band knock out their electro alt-rock.

7.30pm:

The Masked Canterbury Tales at the OFS: According to the blurb this is a 'pacey and joyous romp' through the tales in under an hour. Reading English? Toss Chaucer in the Cherwell and pop round to the OFS. OFS, Students £7

7.30pm:
Agamemnon, Oxford Playhouse

7.30pm:
The Sleeping Beauty, New Theatre

Fun: http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/speech.asp

Daily Dose - Wednesday 1st Week

5:30 pm : Ruskin Life Drawing

6:30 pm : Modern Art Oxford Private View-
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, 'The House of Books Has No Windows'
Tour by curator Emily Smith.
Nibbles and drinks...

RSVP required: 01895 813826

7:30 pm : F*ck Andrew Lloyd Webber -
Improv musical at the Cellar. Audience participation at your peril. £5

7:30 pm : Agamemnon -
Much feted Greek play with surtitles for the Classically undereducated. Oxford Playhouse, £8.50

7:30 pm : The Masked Canterbury Tales -
According to the blurb this is a 'pacey and joyous romp' through the tales in under an hour. Reading English? Toss Chaucer in the Cherwell and pop round to the OFS. OFS, Students £7