I still haven’t quite got my head around Big Daddy v Giant Haystacks – A Heavyweight Champion Comedy in Three Acts – but by all accounts it’s award-winning, funny and worth seeing.

Based on the millions of Britons who watched two fat men pretend to fight each other every Saturday at 4pm from 1976 to 1988, their story can be seen for one night only at The Neighbours Hall, Great Milton, tomorrow night as part of Oxfordshire’s Rural Touring Scheme’s Good Night Out. Call the box office on 01844 279 474.

This is followed on Saturday night by Madame Galina – part clown, part stand-up, part classical ballerina – appearing in Chesterton near Bicester. Tickets, which cost £10 including a finger buffet, are available by calling 01869 250995.

On a slightly more cultured note, you can catch one of Tchaikovsky’s world famous classical ballets, The Nutcracker, when the Vienna Festival Ballet Company returns to The Mill in Banbury this weekend. One of the best-loved ballets, it tells of Clara and her nutcracker doll, which magically transforms into a princely soldier. Call the box office 01295 279002.

Another classic, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, is being staged by an Oxford student company at the Oxford Playhouse from Wednesday. Call the box office on 01865 305388.

The roof of Oxford Town Hall will be raised by the Oxford Welsh Voice Choir Gala Concert in aid of Mulberry Bush School on Saturday night. Special guests include tenor Paul Arden Griffith and the Chepstow & Maesteg Male Voice Choirs. Call 01865 252351 for tickets.

Or how about trying out spectacular circus theatre production The Awake Project, a multi-disciplinary European ensemble, coming to the North Wall in Summertown from Wednesday. It tells the story of Max, a high-flying hospital executive, who is diagnosed with a serious illness. Max shuts his family and friends out, preferring to go it alone and pretend everything is okay. The production uses a visually exciting mix of text, ensemble movement, song and aerial rope sequences to tell his story. Call 01865 319450 or see thenorthwall.com If you fancy a laugh instead, try The Mill tonight when Paul Foot steps up the pace. His Still Life tour is a collection of zany thoughts and observations, and as well as being described as a ‘benign surrealist’ and a ‘mulletted weirdo’, he is also a fantastic, if unconventional, comedian. Call 01295 279002.

Hal Cruttenden is also back in Oxford tonight at the Glee Club armed with yet more witty observations, minute grievances and misplaced anger. Call 0871 472 0400.