Rowan Talbot and Lotte Gilmore in the title roles lead an impressive cast

November 27 2010

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I declare the panto season open. There should be a ceremony, like the opening of Parliament, with Mr Speaker in huge striped pantaloons and the Prime Minister in tights, slapping his thigh with a squeaky cry of “Forty miles from Brussels, and still no sign of Clegg!”

Still, here’s the next best thing. No sooner does Mr Cameron start doing dodgy, dwarf jokes than we spot the first 2010 panto and learn that it is the very one that the Prime Minister will attend en famille, the theatre being close to his constituency of Witney.

Chipping Nor

14th- 22nd May 2011

After last years success we will be hosting local artists' work all over our lovely theatre. 

Each May, Oxfordshire artists and craftspeople open their studios to the public for the county’s most important arts festival. More than 500 exhibitions across the whole of the county enable visitors to view spectacular art in a huge variety of different locations, from barns and halls in Cotswold vil