* BAFTA-winning funny man Harry Hill performs his latest show, Sausage Time, at Oxford’s New Theatre tomorrow and Saturday. The raucous comedian promises to bring a giant frankfurter and his own show band (‘The Harrys’), along with his usual brand of culture-savvy humour. See atgtickets.com

* The appropriately equine Unicorn Theatre will witness a performance of Peter Shaffer’s 1973 drama, Equus. The controversial but critically acclaimed play concerns a psychiatrist and his pathological horse-obsessed patient, and will be performed by Abingdon Drama Group at 7.30pm every evening from now until Saturday. Tickets are £8 and available from The Bookstore in Abingdon Precinct – alternatively, book at abingdon-drama-club.com

* A startlingly personal show from comedian and political activist Mark Thomas will come to The North Wall on February 16. Entitled Bravo Figaro!, Mark’s award winning routine details his father’s struggle with Progressive Supernuclear Palsy and the comic’s admirably grand quest to stage an opera for him in his bungalow. Tickets are £15 – buy in advance at thenorthwall.org

* Oxford Playhouse begins its ambitious ‘Plays Out’ season at Modern Art Oxford, with a production about the muse of Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon. The innovative performance of Still Life will be part performance and part life-drawing class; lead character Henrietta Moraes invites her audience to draw her in the light of the stories she tells, blurring the boundaries between object and subject. Book tickets from the Playhouse box office by calling 01865 305305.

* Mathematics and comedy are rarely associated, but Matt Parker’s brand of numerically influenced wit is one attempt to marry logic with laughs. Anyone able to solve a sudoku puzzle is likely to enjoy the self-described Number Ninja’s fascinating funnies, and he’s bringing them to Banbury’s Mill Theatre at 8pm tomorrow. Tickets are £12 and can be bought in advance at themillartscentre.co.uk

* In a whirl of pizzazz, wit and sparkling charisma, 4 Poofs And A Piano are back with a new line-up. The Poof’s captured the hearts of BBC viewers during their nine-year tenure as the house band on The Jonathan Ross Show. Their live shows are an engaging live spectacle, with irreverent and self-deprecating musical humour. You can catch them at The Mill in Banbury on Thursday, where tickets cost £15/£12 on 01295 279002 and at the Cornerstone in Didcot on Saturday, February 16. Tickets are £14 and £12.50. Call 01235 515144.