Daily Dose - Thursday 7th Week

5 plays, a poetry reading, and.... WILL YOUNG! And nice weather too, so far.



7.30pm Son of the Bride (Argentina, 2001) Story about a 42-year-old who lives in the shadow of his father, feels guilty about never seeing his mother, spends too little time with his daughter and cannot commit to his girlfriend - his life's basically going down in shambles. At the lowest point fate reunites him with a childhood friend who teaches him how to look at life in a completely different light. Nominated for OSCAR, recieved another 26 wins and 10 nominations. This one's a special event with the Latin American Society (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)


7.30pm Will Young - New Theatre £32.50 The Let It Go tour.


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.


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.


8:00pm-10:00pm - Matthew Hollis Poetry Reading - Award-winning poet reads a selection of his works. Lecture Room One, Christ Church - £3, free for members of OU Poetry Society