Much ado

The BBC star will be performing a preview of his new show Manscaping, a merciless exploration of the ridiculous state of masculinity in the modern world, which is set for a major UK tour in the winter. See him tomorrow at 8pm. Tickets are £15. Call 01865 241261 or see oxfordcomedytickets.co.uk In Relish, Dan and new wife Stacy are holding a birthday dinner party for his older sister Fran. They have invited their friend Louise as well as Dan’s new boss Martin, with his wife Sheila. Fran, divorced and disillusioned, is not enamoured with the glamourous man-eating Louise. Dan resents Martin, who pipped him at the post for promotion. As the friends enjoy food, drink and light-hearted banter, something is lurking beneath.

Savouring food and drink and relishing speculation and hearsay – the friends unravel secrets and lies, with shocking consequences...

Relish is on at The Michael Pilch Studio Theatre, Jowett Walk (off Mansfield Road), Oxford, on Friday and Saturday, June 17 and 18, at 8pm. Tickets are £8. Call 07729207262 or see oxfringe.com Idiots Of Ants bring their unique blend of fast-paced sketch comedy to The North Wall Arts Centre in Summertown.

See them on Wednesday at 8pm. Call 01865 319450 or see thenorthwall.com The last of the great song-and-dance men singer, tap dancer, writer, philosopher and Man of Peace, Movin’ Melvin Brown comes to Oxfringe for four shows at Copa Upstairs in George Street.

Movin’ Melvin will take you on a musical journey of his life through black music history, from the 50s to the 90s. See him from Thursday until Saturday, June 18. Tickets are £13 (£10 concs) at the door or at wegottickets.com Oxford University Press will see its first public theatre performance as members of its staff perform The Importance of Being Earnest, complete with cucumber sandwiches and tea.

The cast present a promenade performance of the 1895 Oscar Wilde play in the publisher’s Victorian dining rooms and in its picturesque front quad.

All members of the show’s cast are part of the Press’s Music and Drama Society (MADSoc), which has been performing shows for fellow employees for 40 years, but never for an outside audience.

Performances will take place from Tuesday, June 21 to Saturday, June 25, at 7pm. There will be an additional Saturday Matinee on June 25 at 2pm.

Tickets cost £10 at wegottickets.com Musical comedy stars Doctor Adam Kay and Suman Biswas bring their unique brand of politically incorrect, smut-filled humour to Oxford. As Amateur Transplants, the two trained doctors started performing in 1998, having met at medical school and took their first show up to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2005, achieving a sell-out run. They are at the The Regal on Friday, June 17, at 8pm. See amateurtransplants.net Oxford’s favourite Victorian conjurers are back and facing their toughest challenge yet – solving their own murder.

Morgan & West return with an all-new show in which they must recognise the rogue responsible, tinker with the timeline and save their skins.

See them at Simpkins Lee Theatre from Wednesday, June 15, to Saturday, June 18, 6.30pm. Tickets are £7.

Spot the city’s favourite up-and-coming actors in this play set in the regular Thursday evening Quiz Night at the Britannia pub. Join Brenda, the landlady as she struggles with the brewery changes, sorts out her regulars and deals with the riff-raff who have been frequenting her establishment… the politicians!

On Wednesday at Copa Upstairs at 9.30pm.

Small Space is performed by a real-life husband and wife team, in a secret location.

The audience are led from a meeting point to a mystery venue – a private house – where they then become an ‘intimate’ audience for a theatrical ‘through-the-keyhole’ look at the issue of intimacy.

The show is on tomorrow at 7.15pm and 9.45pm; June 11 and 18 at 6.45pm and 9.15pm; and June 19 at 5.45pm and 8.15pm. Tickets are £12. Book early at wegottickets.com - only 17 places at each show. See smallspacetheshow.com.

Peut-etre Theatre presents a new dance-theatre piece for children and their grown-ups. Combining astounding physicality, atmospheric music and dazzling design, Draw Me a Bird takes you on the thrilling journey of one little bird who falls in love with the songs of a Parisian street musician. It’s on at the North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford, tomorrow at 11am and 2pm. Call 01865 319450 or see thenorthwall.com Imagine a punt on Oxford’s River Thames on a June morning, operatic arias being sung alongside the cries of gathering geese on the banks of Port Meadow. It’s not a dream, because thanks to Mike and Vanessa Woodward, who have been performing while punting for three years now, the growing popularity of Opera Anywhere’s punt trips speaks for itself, and is coming to Oxfringe.

Trips take place on June 10, 12, 17, 19, 24, 25 and 26 at 3pm and 6pm. A 90-min trip for two passengers is £100; a two-hour trip for four passengers is £140 and a two-hour trip for six passengers is £175. Departing from Folly Bridge. Booking via wegottickets.com. Information on operaanywhere.com or by calling 01865 735910.

How to Climb Mount Everest – one mountain, one man, one shot, one outcome? Mixing puppetry, live music and physical theatre, Autojeu invite the audience to join them in an adventure following one man on an incredible journey from an old sofa to the peak of Mount Everest. Devoted to making playful, fun and imaginative work, using audience interaction as well as making the audience ‘play’, both physically during the show and, mentally when providing stimulus that cultivates the imagination, Autojeu invites people to rediscover their youth.

The show, suitable for ages 12+, is at Pegasus Studio, on Sunday, at 7pm. Call 01865 812150.

Voice female acapella trio are performing at The Ashmolean.

They will perform a repertoire spanning both ages and continents, including a versatile blend of early music, world folk song arrangements and contemporary compositions, all sung with distinctiveness of style, intriguing and convincing shifts of vocal timbre, and an appealing freshness of presentation.

See them on Saturday in the Atrium at the Ashmolean Museum at noon. Free.