Ashmolean Live Friday, Friday, 7pm The Ashmolean
When the doors to Tutankhamun’s tomb were opened in 1922, Egypt fever swept the world. On 31 October 2014, LiveFriday will bring Egyptomania to the Ashmolean Museum, as 1920s glamour meets Egyptology. Spend your Halloween in the company of some mummies….if you’re man enough, that is.
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Esarhaddon, Friday & Saturday, 7.30pm Simpkins Lee Theatre
The ultimate piece of new writing, this play is part of a trilogy set in ancient Assyria and sees the king Esarhaddon battling ill health and widespread conspiracy as his empire steadily descends into turmoil. With the play’s powerful dialogue and authentic costumes, The National Theatre of Akkad truly brings this historical drama to life.
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Feminism in Theory & Action Conference, Saturday, 10.30am Wadham College
This all-day feminist conference, held at Wadham (where else?) will be bringing in speakers on a variety of topics, ranging from gender and class, women and mental health, gendered homelessness, ecofeminism, feminist history, female refugees/ asylum seekers and more. Pragma Patel of Southall Black Sisters is just one of the speakers to have been confirmed so far.
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Simple pres. Leon Vynehall, Saturday, 11pm The Bullingdon
Saunter on down to the sweat-filled environs of the Bully for a night with up-and-coming DJ, Leon Vynehall. No one knows much about this media recluse apart from his music, but apparently it’s something to be excited about! Halloween dress is optional, but encouraged.
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Ghostbusters, Saturday, 9.15pm Phoenix Picturehouse
Don’t miss out on this one-off screening of everyone’s favourite science fantasy comedy film. Three wacky unemployed parapsychologists pursue a little private enterprise as exterminators in spook-infested New York. Of its time but still an enjoyably comedy despite the datedness.
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The Man Jesus, Tuesday, 4pm Keble O’Reilly
‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ star, Simon Callow, becomes Jesus for a night in his new one-man-show. The Sunday Telegraph described the show as “excellent, compelling, involving, intelligent… with a bit of help from the Almighty – Callow manages to pull it off, magnificently.” Consider us convinced.
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Jerusalem, Wednesday – Saturday, 7.30pm Keble O’Reilly
Like Beckett on speed or Coward on coke, The Bard on base or Davenant on dots, Butterworth bashes out some hard-hitting-no-nonsense-quipping dialogue in his masterpiece-glance at rural England. This is gonna be big.
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