Daily Dose - Friday 7th Week

Dracula and Sweeney Todd in one night? Watch your necks...


Winter Light Oxford Events in Bonn Square from 5.00pm and in Broad Street from 7pm. Enjoy an evening of spectacle, entertainment and surprises in Oxford’s city centre to kick off the Christmas season in style. Eye-catching street theatre, music and dance celebrate the remarkable transformation of Bonn Square where Les Grooms (The Bellboys), a very unexpected kind of brass band from France, perform a special musical fanfare.

7pm - Carling Academy - £6. Twin Atlantic: Glasgow alt-rockers.

7.30pm - Zucchero - New Theatre - £20. THE Italian rock star. He has had number one singles in 3 different languages!! He presents his greatest hits.

7.30pm A Special Boy by Caroline Bird, BT £5 (£4) New Writing from a nominee of the 2008 Dylan Thomas Award.'Tansy is the carer for her special-needs brother. When he is the victim of a cruel practical joke, she turns her hairdressing salon into an interrogation room - an incisive and barbed satire on modern values. Over half of the profits of 'A Special Boy' are to be donated to 'Planting Promise'.

7.30pm Dracula - Mansfield College Chapel £7 (£5) by Bram Stoker; adapted by Brian McMahon, Emma Whipday, & James O'Neill. Bram Stoker’s classic horror story complete with monsters, heroes, love and death in a world where nothing is certain and everything is at stake.

7.30pm Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Keble O'Reilly £8 (£7) Stephen Sondheim's grisly tale re-invented in the sterile setting of a modern day operating theatre. Scrub up, take your seat, and watch the ensemble of nine surgeons singing and swinging their razors to the sounds of Stephen Sondheim's spine-tingling score and the smells of Mrs Lovett's pies!

7.30pm Chess - Oxford Playhouse £11-£16 by Tim Rice, Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus. Set during the later years of the Cold War, Hungarian refugee Florence is second to the American Chess Champion Freddie Trumper, who is also challenged for his title by Russian Anotoly Siergiesky. Things would be simple if all they did was play chess, but love, politics and intrigue get in the way.

8.00pm New College Open Mic Night

9.30pm Neighbourhood Watch by Antony Rickard & Jon Cheung, BT £5 (£4) New writing. A joke-shop owner, a priest and two French technology salesmen band together a motley Neighbourhood Watch as safeguard from a habitual thief; though their incompetence and conflict of interests soon derail the organization.