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Peter Duncan directs this season’s magical pantomime. North Wall Arts Centre (01865 319450) ...AND THE SHUFFLE OF THINGS Thu 3rd: 8pm £14-£16 (conc £4 off) Audio-visual performance from Andrew Poppy & Julia Bardsely. Wolvercote Village Hall LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD Thu 3rd - Fri 4th: 7.30pm Sat 5th: 2.30pm, 7.30pm 01865 556120 / www.stpetersplayers.co.uk A traditional family pantomime to whet your appetite for Christmas! £7 (£5) Cornerstone Arts Centre (01235 515144) AUSTEN’S WOMEN Thu 3rd: 7.30pm £10.50-£13 Recreating the adventures of Jane Austen’s characters. Age 12+ RUTHIE CULVER’S UTTER:JAZZ Sat 5th: 8.00pm £10.50-£13 Jazz, poetry and prose in an inspirational mix. CINEMA to Fri 4th Odeon George Street (0871 2244 007) 2012 [12A] Thu: 1.15, 5.00, 8.45pm; Fri: 3.30, 7.00, 10.30pm Apocalypse movie. AN EDUCATION [12A] Thu: 6.30pm; Fri: 2.30pm Girl in Sixties London sidelines studies for suitor. 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Subtitled: Tue 2.45pm THE BOX [12A] Fri: 12.40, 3.15, 5.50, 8.45, 11.40pm Cameron Diaz agonises over million-dollar killer button. 2012 [12A] Thu: 12.50, 2.20, 4.10, 5.40, 7.30, 9.00pm Fri: 12.30, 3.30, 7.30, 11.00pm Apocalypse movie. A CHRISTMAS CAROL 3D [PG]Thu: 12.20, 2.40, 4.50, 7.10, 9.20pm Fri: 1.10, 3.30, 6.00, 8.15, 10.40pm Three ghosts, three dimensions. THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS [15] Fri: 10.30pm If George Clooney’s looks could kill... Ultimate Picture Palace (01865 245288) AN EDUCATION [12A] Thu: 8.30pm Girl in Sixties London sidelines studies for suitor. BRIGHT STAR [PG] Fri: 9.00pm Drama based on romance between John Keats and Fanny Brawne. PRANZO DI FERRAGOSTO (MID-AUGUST LUNCH) [U] Thu: 6.30pm Italian comedy set on an August bank holiday. THE SMALLEST SHOW ON EARTH [U] Fri: 6.30pm Classic comedy. Couple inherit a tiny run-down cinema. Phoenix Picturehouse (0871 704 2062) IN THE NIGHT GARDEN: UPSY DAISY DANCES WITH THE PINKY PONK [U] Fri: 11.00am Upsy Daisy shows her love for everything in the garden. Accompanying adults free. BUNNY AND THE BULL [15] Thu: 1.30, 4.00, 6.30, 9.00pm Man relives European road trip in his North London flat. ME AND ORSON WELLES [12A] Fri: 1.15, 3.30, 6.20, 8.45pm Zac Efron blags his way onto Broadway. THE WHITE RIBBON (DAS WEISSE BAND) [15] Fri: 12.50, 6.00pm Vandalism and violence in a pre-war German village. German with English subtitles. A SERIOUS MAN [15] Thu: 1.15, 3.45, 6.15, 8.45pm Fri: 3.45, 9.00pm Coen brothers. Morality lacks pay-off for professor. Odeon Magdalen Street (0871 2244 007) 2012 [12A] Thu: 12.30, 4.00, 7.30pm; Fri: midday Apocalypse movie. TWILIGHT: NEW MOON [12A] Thu: 2.30, 5.30, 8.30pm Fri: 2.30, 5.30, 8.30pm Second instalment of the teen vampire phenomenon. THE DESCENT: PART 2 [18] Fri: 4.00, 6.30, 9.00pm Surviving member of expedition returns to the caves. 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For information in confidence, with no obligation to participate please contact: Dr Beata Godlewska: (01865) 223609 e-mail [email protected] Participants will be reimbursed for their time and expense 08/H0604/148 (18/08/2008) version 1 UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY WARNEFORD HOSPITAL, HEADINGTON OXFORD, OX3 7JX We are studying how the brain works when looking at faces. Brain activity will be measured using a safe and silent machine called MEG (magnetoencephalography). If you take part we will: • Answer your questions about the study and explain what will happen • Invite you to look around our centre in Headington and practice with our pretend MEG • Record your brain waves with the real MEG You can decide not to take part at any time. For more information about this study please get an adult to contact: Dr Jennifer Swettenham: 01865 283806 [email protected] Travel expenses will be reimbursed. Participants will receive a voucher. Oxford REC C Ref. 07/Q1606/29 We are looking for volunteers aged 5-16 for a study on how children’s brains process faces! WOMEN AND MOOD: Interested in how a dietary manipulation can change the way you feel? Healthy women sought for research study. http://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/site/users/ manc0487/public/study1/ or uka4‰users.dailyinfo.co.uk THEATRE REVIEWS The Bloody Chamber Burton Taylor Studio, daily: 9.30pm, until Saturday 5th December Angela Carter has enjoyed a good run in Oxford student theatre this term, with the lavish success of the musical Nights at the Circus earlier this year, and now an adaptation of her short story The Bloody Chamber (and for loyal fans, The Magic Toyshop is a work-in-progress). Rather than an adaptation, the play is, in the director’s words, a “response”, exploring the themes of gender & sexuality from the story, applied to the pathologies of modern society. The tagline ‘enter at your peril’ is well applied; you have been warned. Labelled the most risqué show in Oxford in years, the swearing, sexual language and brutality hits hard from the very beginning, and does not abate. As in the novel, the bloody chamber that fills the stage is the site of punishment: the malevolent, chauvinistic but impotent Duke (played by Tomlinson) terrorises the other characters to submission using a very phallic gun, with his wife (Orrock) as both accomplice and victim. We are forced to see, very graphically, how those who do not fit the defined gender roles suffer. The narrow stage of the BT fits the claustrophobic atmosphere of the play well: character-victims – the girl, the lesbian, the homosexual – are tortured, exposed, but allowed to speak out their neuroses and oppression with earnest, sometimes heartwrenching ferocity. The play reminded me more of something from Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom than Carter – apart from a few borrowed lines, the rest of the script is original writing, and blasphemy-heavy. If you feel lost without a logical, coherent plot in your theatre, look elsewhere. Ditto for the easily offended. Everything in the play is gratuitous: the sexual imagery, swearing, nudity, the roaring melodramatic opera soundtrack, and even the fake blood and body bits are designed to unsettle and disturb the audience, feeling sometimes almost pornographic (dead bodies of characters do not walk off either – they litter the bloody chamber and become part of the stage). The overarching religious motifs add to the oppressive themes and a perverted retelling of the Adam and Eve tale was cleverly done, both darkly humorous as well as disturbing. “Shit.” says Girl-Eve simply, after realising she has taken the apple. The play is daring, yes, and certainly provocative, and sometimes falls under the weight of its own audacity – there are times where the depravity is excessive to the point of farcical, and you were unsure whether to laugh. Yet its audacity must be applauded: powerful acting from all the cast – Turnbull as the pathetic, persecuted ‘Boy’ was particularly compelling to watch – and a provocative if expletive-rich script make for a thought- provoking and certainly visually impacting production, if not the most easy to digest. Yunnan Chen The Bacchae Hertford Bop Cellar Sex, gods, violence and blood wait in Hertford Bop Cellar, in a gripping and innovative interpretation of The Bacchae, returning from a tour of the UK and California. It is well worth watching, in part for some very good choreography, and in part due to a mesmerising turn from the actor playing Dionysius. Unfortunately I didn’t have a programme, so I don’t know the director’s name, but the take on the text was great, especially because the cast of six had to represent the hordes of followers the god obtains. The piece is based around physical theatre, with the long speeches of Greek tragedy split between the actors, and brought to life. The four Bacchants, also playing Tiresias, Autonowe, Cadmus and Agawe, perform most of this, and do it very well. The movement is slick and exhilarating, and sometimes horrifying, especially during the death of Pentheus. The cast are mostly very strong. The slightly smaller parts of Tiresias and Autonowe are performed solidly, and both actors are convincingly delirious in the frenzy of the Bacchae’s rituals. Cadmus and Agawe both gave good performances, managing the final grieving scenes well, though both characters seemed a little simplistic, and could do with being realised more intricately. The actor playing Pentheus sometimes strayed over the top in his portrayal, especially earlier on, but was at times both effective and affecting. He, like the others, is outshone by Dionysius. 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New Theatre (0844 8471585)WILL YOUNG Thu 3rd: 7pm
£35Brand new UK tour.
HERE COME THE GIRLS Fri 4th: 7pm£25-£40Lulu, Chaka Khan and Anastacia join forces for a fabulous girls’ night out.
JIMMY CARR - RAPIER WIT Sat 5th: 8pm£22.50Intelligent and outrageous stand-up. Suitable for ages 16+ only.
Creation Theatre (01865 766266)Mirror Tent at MINI Plant Oxford (BMW)
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Thu 3rd, Fri 4th: 7.30pm; Sat 5th: 2.30, 7.30pm
£8.50-£19.50A fresh, magical retelling of the classic fairytale. Ages 6+
Burton Taylor Studio (01865 305305)A STATE AFFAIR Thu 3rd - Sat 5th: 7.30pm
£5 (£4)Verbatim theatre takes us to the Dickensian underbelly of today’s Britain.
THE BLOODY CHAMBER Thu 3rd - Sat 5th: 9.30pm£5 (£4)Seductive re-telling of the Bluebeard fairytale is given a fresh adaptation.
Oxford Playhouse (01865 305305)JACK AND THE BEANSTALK Fri 4th: 7pm; Sat 5th: 2pm, 7pm
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North Wall Arts Centre (01865 319450)...AND THE SHUFFLE OF THINGS Thu 3rd: 8pm
£14-£16 (conc £4 off)Audio-visual performance from Andrew Poppy & Julia Bardsely.
Wolvercote Village Hall LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD Thu 3rd - Fri 4th: 7.30pm
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Cornerstone Arts Centre (01235 515144)AUSTEN’S WOMEN Thu 3rd: 7.30pm
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RUTHIE CULVER’S UTTER:JAZZ Sat 5th: 8.00pm£10.50-£13Jazz, poetry and prose in an inspirational mix.
CINEMA to Fri 4th
Odeon George Street (0871 2244 007)2012 [12A] Thu: 1.15, 5.00, 8.45pm; Fri: 3.30, 7.00, 10.30pmApocalypse movie.
AN EDUCATION [12A] Thu: 6.30pm; Fri: 2.30pmGirl in Sixties London sidelines studies for suitor.
THE BOX [12A] Fri: 2.00, 5.00, 8.00, 11.00pmCameron Diaz agonises over million-dollar killer button.
TWILIGHT: NEW MOON [12A] Thu: 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pmFri: 1.30, 4.30, 7.30, 10.45pmSecond instalment of teen vampire phenomenon.
THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS [15] Fri: 9.15pmIf George Clooney’s looks could kill...
PLANET 51 [U] Fri: 2.15, 4.45, 7.15pmAliens worry about a visiting astronaut...
LAW ABIDING CITIZEN [18] Thu: 3.15, 6.00, 9.00pmFri: 6.00, 8.30, 11.15pmMan avenges family’s death against the justice system.
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY [15] Thu: 1.45, 4.00, 6.45, 9.15pmFri: 5.15, 7.45, 10.00pmSuburban couple are disturbed by demonic presence.
JENNIFER’S BODY [15] Fri: 11.30pmDark comedy. A virgin sacrifice backfires on local boys.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL 3D [PG] Thu: 2.00, 4.15pmFri: 1.45, 4.00pmDickens classic starring Jim Carrey. Subtitled: Fri 4.00pm
THE DESCENT: PART 2 [18] Thu: 8.30pmSurviving member of expedition returns to the caves.
Vue Cinema (08712 240 240)TWILIGHT: NEW MOON Thu: 1.00, 1.50, 4.00, 5.00, 7.00, 8.00pm[12A] Teen vampire phenomenon. Fri: 1.50, 5.00, 8.00, 11.15pmPARANORMAL ACTIVITY [15] Thu: 1.40, 3.50, 6.00, 8.20pm
Fri: 2.00, 4.15, 6.45, 9.00, 11.30pmSuburban couple + demonic presence.
NATIVITY! [U] Thu: 1.10, 3.40, 6.10pm; Fri: 1.30, 4.00pmTeacher boasts big to better a rival school play.
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HARRY BROWN [18] Thu: 8.40pm; Fri: 9.30, 11.55pmMichael Caine goes vigilante.
THE DESCENT: PART 2 [18] Thu: 12.10, 2.30, 4.40, 6.50, 9.10pmFri: 1.15, 3.40,6.15, 8.30, 10.50pmLone survivor of expedition returns to caves.
PLANET 51 [U] Fri: 12.20, 2.30, 4.45, 7.00pmAliens worry about a visiting astronaut...
ME AND ORSON WELLES [12A] Fri: 12.10, 2.45, 5.15, 7.45pmZac Efron blags his way onto Broadway. Subtitled: Tue 2.45pm
THE BOX [12A] Fri: 12.40, 3.15, 5.50, 8.45, 11.40pmCameron Diaz agonises over million-dollar killer button.
2012 [12A] Thu: 12.50, 2.20, 4.10, 5.40, 7.30, 9.00pmFri: 12.30, 3.30, 7.30, 11.00pmApocalypse movie.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL 3D [PG] Thu: 12.20, 2.40, 4.50, 7.10, 9.20pmFri: 1.10, 3.30, 6.00, 8.15, 10.40pmThree ghosts, three dimensions.
THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS [15] Fri: 10.30pmIf George Clooney’s looks could kill...
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BRIGHT STAR [PG] Fri: 9.00pmDrama based on romance between John Keats and Fanny Brawne.
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ME AND ORSON WELLES [12A] Fri: 1.15, 3.30, 6.20, 8.45pmZac Efron blags his way onto Broadway.
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THE DESCENT: PART 2 [18] Fri: 4.00, 6.30, 9.00pmSurviving member of expedition returns to the caves.
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...AND THE SHUFFLE OF THINGS / Audio-visual performance / 8pm, £14/£16 (conc £4 off) / www.ocmevents.org / North Wall Arts Centre, South ParadeTHE ORIGINAL RABBIT FOOT SPASM BAND + BABY GRAVY + DEAD JERICHOS + DJS / Fundraiser for the Oxford Sleep Out and Oxford Homeless Medical Fund / 8.30pm-3am, £5 / The Cellar, Frewin Court, off Cornmarket St.
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Fri 4thMURDER MYSTERY EVENING / Spend an evening solving a mystery while enjoying a 3 course dinner. / £45 per person / www.killinggame.co.uk / 0845 166 7516 / Hawkwell House Hotel, Iffley VillageFINDS SURGERY / Bring your archaeological finds to the Museum to be identified and recorded / 10am-2pm, free / Museum of Oxford, St. Aldate’sPAPUA NEW GUINEA’S SECRET SPECIES / Talk by Dr George McGavin. / Society For Graduates / 8pm. £2 / Okinaga Room, Wadham College, Parks RdPARENT AND CHILD CRAFT GROUP / For parents who make things! / 2.30-4.30pm, £2 / 07780 713909 / St Nicholas Church Hall, Elsfield Rd, Old Marston
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VOLUNTEERS WANTED
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY
ARE YOU FEELING REALLY SAD?Have you lost interest in the things you would usually enjoy?We are looking for people with persistent low mood to take part in a study investigating how an antidepressant drug affects information processing. The study involves a single brain scan using magnetic imaging (MRI).
For information in confidence, with no obligation to participate please contact: Dr Beata Godlewska: (01865) 223609
e-mail [email protected] Participants will be reimbursed for their time and expense
08/H0604/148 (18/08/2008) version 1
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORDDEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY
WARNEFORD HOSPITAL, HEADINGTONOXFORD, OX3 7JX
We are studying how the brain works when looking at faces. Brain activity will be measured using a safe and silent
machine called MEG (magnetoencephalography).
If you take part we will: • Answer your questions about the study and explain what will happen • Invite you to look around our centre in Headington and practice with our pretend MEG • Record your brain waves with the real MEG
You can decide not to take part at any time.
For more information about this study please get an adult to contact: Dr Jennifer Swettenham:
01865 283806 [email protected]
Travel expenses will be reimbursed. Participants will receive a voucher.
Oxford REC C Ref. 07/Q1606/29
We are looking for volunteers aged 5-16 for a study on how
children’s brains process faces!
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THEATRE REVIEWS
The Bloody ChamberBurton Taylor Studio, daily: 9.30pm, until Saturday 5th December
Angela Carter has enjoyed a good run in Oxford student theatre this term, with the lavish success of the musical Nights at the Circus earlier this year, and now an adaptation of her short story The Bloody Chamber (and for loyal fans, The Magic Toyshop is a work-in-progress). Rather than an adaptation, the play is, in the director’s words, a “response”, exploring the themes of gender & sexuality from the story, applied to the pathologies of modern society. The tagline ‘enter at your peril’ is well applied; you have been warned.
Labelled the most risqué show in Oxford in years, the swearing, sexual language and brutality hits hard from the very beginning, and does not abate. As in the novel, the bloody chamber that fills the stage is the site of punishment: the malevolent, chauvinistic but impotent Duke (played by Tomlinson) terrorises the other characters to submission using a very phallic gun, with his wife (Orrock) as both accomplice and victim. We are forced to see, very graphically, how those who do not fit the defined gender roles suffer. The narrow stage of the BT fits the claustrophobic atmosphere of the play well: character-victims – the girl, the lesbian, the homosexual
– are tortured, exposed, but allowed to speak out their neuroses and oppression with earnest, sometimes heartwrenching ferocity.
The play reminded me more of something from Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom than Carter – apart from a few borrowed lines, the rest of the script is original writing, and blasphemy-heavy. If you feel lost without a logical, coherent plot in your theatre, look elsewhere. Ditto for the easily offended. Everything in the play is gratuitous: the sexual imagery, swearing, nudity, the roaring melodramatic opera soundtrack, and even the fake blood and body bits are designed to unsettle and disturb the audience, feeling sometimes almost pornographic (dead bodies of characters do not walk off either – they litter the bloody chamber and become part of the stage). The overarching religious motifs add to the oppressive themes and a perverted retelling of the Adam and Eve tale was cleverly done, both darkly humorous as well as disturbing. “Shit.” says Girl-Eve simply, after realising she has taken the apple.
The play is daring, yes, and certainly provocative, and sometimes falls under the weight of its own audacity – there are times where the depravity is excessive to the point of farcical, and you were unsure whether to laugh. Yet its audacity must be applauded: powerful acting from all the cast
– Turnbull as the pathetic, persecuted ‘Boy’ was particularly compelling to watch – and a provocative if expletive-rich script make for a thought-provoking and certainly visually impacting production, if not the most easy to digest.
Yunnan Chen
The BacchaeHertford Bop Cellar
Sex, gods, violence and blood wait in Hertford Bop Cellar, in a gripping and innovative interpretation of The Bacchae, returning from a tour of the UK and California. It is well worth watching, in part for some very good choreography, and in part due to a mesmerising turn from the actor playing Dionysius.
Unfortunately I didn’t have a programme, so I don’t know the director’s name, but the take on the text was great, especially because the cast of six had to represent the hordes of followers the god obtains. The piece is based around physical theatre, with the long speeches of Greek tragedy split between the actors, and brought to life. The four Bacchants, also playing Tiresias, Autonowe, Cadmus and Agawe, perform most of this, and do it very well. The movement is slick and exhilarating, and sometimes horrifying, especially during the death of Pentheus.
The cast are mostly very strong. The slightly smaller parts of Tiresias and Autonowe are performed solidly, and both actors are convincingly delirious in the frenzy of the Bacchae’s rituals. Cadmus and Agawe both gave good performances, managing the final grieving scenes well, though both characters seemed a little simplistic, and could do with being realised more intricately. The actor playing Pentheus sometimes strayed over the top in his portrayal, especially earlier on, but was at times both effective and affecting. He, like the others, is outshone by Dionysius. The character seizes the audience’s attention through charm and seduction, but the actor grasped the minutiae of his part far more than the others on stage, and delivers a powerhouse, unravelling the contradictions and terrifying extremes of the god in a spellbinding and eventually devastating way.
It’s a play worth seeing, and a performance from an actor you won’t forget. Sarah Hadley
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JOBS OFFERED
ASSISTANT TO THE MATRONWe are seeking an energetic & reliable part-time Assistant to the Matron, holding a professional nursing qualification, to join the support staff from January 2010. At the heart of Oxford beside the River Cherwell, Magdalen College School is one of the most successful academic boys’ schools in the UK.Key responsibilities will include provision of first aid with emergency care & treatment as necessary.
Job Description and application form can be found on the School website: www.mcsoxford.orgCompleted application form, full CV and covering letter should be sent by e-mail to Mrs Sandy Coles: ([email protected]). Closing date for applications: midday on Friday 4th December 2009
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Rights & Contracts Assistant
(4 month fixed term contract) We require an Assistant to join the Music Rights & Contracts team to provide cover for 4 months on a full time basis. As well as providing general assistance and backup for the whole team, the Assistant’s particular responsibilities will include clearing permissions for the use of third-party material in OUP’s own publications, and administering the ‘Print on Demand’ service for out of print titles, in partnership with our outside suppliers, as well as maintaining the printed music archive.Applicants will ideally have a background in the classical sector of printed music, and an understanding of rights and copyright in the context of music or the performing arts. Salary in the region of £8,000 per annum depending on skills and experience. For more information and to apply for the role please visit http://ukjobs.oup.com Closing date: December 2009
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