Garden show

Alice in Wonderland

Merton Field, Christ Church Meadow

July 20 to 23 at 6.30pm, 2pm Saturday and Monday n wegottickets.com/ OxfordUniversityDramatic Society.com

This year’s Oxford University Dramatic Society’s national summer tour, written and partially devised with Matt Parvin, who won this year’s OUDS writing competition, and is a Royal Court Young Writer. The adaptation follows the original narrative with a series of monologues which fit between the scenes and help root the play in its Victorian context. This leg takes place with a backdrop of the very college in which Lewis Carroll, in real life the mathematics don Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, wrote the Alice stories.

Trilogy

Red, white and blue: casualties of war

Old Fire Station, Oxford

July 19 & 20 n Email info@thedeck theatre company.co.uk

This trilogy of one-act shorts by Oxford writers The Deck Theatre Company brings you three writers, three plays and three different responses to the war in Afghanistan. Red, by Heather Dunmore, is about two teenage asylum-seekers. White, by Catherine Comfort, is about a missing soldier and Blue by Gwilym Scourfield goes out on patrol in IED territory.

Comedy

Carl Donnelly

Oxford Glee Club Sat, July 20

Call 0871 472 0400 glee.co.uk/oxford

Award-winning comedian Carl Donnelly has taken three shows to Edinburgh and was nominated best newcomer in 2009. Now a regular at the UK’s best clubs, Carl has appeared on Mock the Week, Dave’s One Night Stand, Stand Up for the Week and Russell Howard’s Good News. Dance-off Strictly Oxford n New Theatre Oxford n Sunday, July 21 n Call 0844 8717627 or valehouse.org.uk Following last year’s sell-out show, Strictly Oxford is back, bigger and better. Another batch of brave local celebrities and dignitaries will don their dancing shoes in aid of Vale House, a local care home for Alzheimer’s and dementia sufferers, in a fabulously entertaining evening of dancing, including our own MD Shamus Donald.

Musical

Save the last dance for me

New Theatre, Oxford

Monday July 22 – Saturday July 27

Call 0844 871 3020 or atgtickets.com/ oxford This new musical, full of rock ‘n’ roll classics, will take you back through the music and magic of the early ’60s. Written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran (Goodnight Sweetheart, Birds of a Feather, Shine on Harvey Moon), this nostalgic, feel-good musical will transport you back to this golden era as we follow two teenage sisters through the summer of ‘63 when a handsome young American invites them to a dance at the local US Air Force base. Think holiday romance and you’ll be halfway there.