Daily Dose - Friday 4th Week

Welcome to the weekend.

5.00pm - The Long Road Of Oral History: Around 1968 In France. Inaugural Lecture by the Professor of Modern History, Professor Robert Gildea. Some of these inaugural lectures are quite fun - there was a good one on Tolstoy last night.

7.00pm - The Aggrolites, The Grit, New York Alcoholic Anxiety Attack MMT - £10 advance - Carling Academy. Reggae and ska music.

7.30pm - Alan Ryan's Shabbat Dinner - Oxford Chabad Society Lecture "Sir Isaiah Berlin & Rooted Cosmopolitanism". Non students £8 - David Slager Chabad Centre, 61 George St.

7.30pm - Endgame by Samuel Beckett - Keble O'Reilly (£8/£6) Nothing but here, nothing but today. In a room where crying means living, and there is nothing funnier than unhappiness, man is outplayed. ENDGAME. Checkmate?

7.30pm - Richard III by William Shakespeare - OFS (£9/£7) Shakespeare’s most notorious villain in a new student production with a supernatural twist.

7.45pm - Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) at Magdalen College Auditorium. Tickets: £8/£5. Love, music and the pursuit of birds in Mozart's bittersweet last opera.

8.00pm - Maxim Rysanov, viola Katya Apekisheva (piano) Kristina Blaumane (cello) - Virtuoso Ukranian-born violist and friends play Britten 'Lachrymae for Viola and Piano, 'Bridge 'There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook' and Brahms Scherzo in C minor, Sonata for Viola and Piano No 1 in F minor, Piano Trio No 1 in B, Op 8. Holywell Music Room, Tickets: £20/concs from 0870 7500659 or www.musicatoxford.com

8.00pm - A Few Good Men by Aaron Sorkin - Oxford Playhouse (£13.50/£8.50 concessions) The big student Playhouse production of term, by the creator of the award-winning West Wing series and Oscar nominated film Charlie Wilson’s War. A storm of deception, honour and courage in a court martial where the US Marine Corps itself is on trial. It's got cracking reviews and is not to be missed.