Invitation to perform at OffBeat festival

OFFBEAT is a hive of new performance in Oxford, a festival of brand-new theatre, comedy, dance, family shows, spoken word and music.

It’s a place for you to see something which wouldn’t usually go there. It’s a blind date with a show you could fall in love with. Take a chance on something exciting.

Offbeat 2021 will run from June 22-27 and applications are now being invited from performers.

There are three ways to perform at Offbeat 2021: Offbeat Online, Offbeat Live & Offbeat Outdoor.

For more information visit http://www.offbeatoxford.co.uk where you can also download an application pack. An accessible application pack application form are also available.

The application deadline: 9am on Monday, March 15.

MARLBOROUGH Literature Festival returns from September 30 to October 3 – put the date in the diary. In the meantime, if you are looking for some bookish podcasts? MLFteam suggest you check these out:

Literary Friction – a monthly look at book recommendations, with lively discussion and author interviews.

BBC Radio 4’s Bookclub – hosted by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their bestknown novels.

The Slightly Foxed Podcast – billed as an audio version of the literary magazine, with book recommendations and literary discussion.

Progress 2-hander

READING-based Progress Theatre are presenting Sam Steiner’s Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons through digital live performance via Zoom from March 24 to 26.

The performance will be followed by a Q&A.

The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Oliver and Bernadette, an already struggling couple, are about to Ennd out. A non-chronological, twohander that explores how (and how well) we communicate, along with ideas about censorship, oppression, and free speech. It’s about what we say and how we say it; about the things we can only hear in the silence; about dead cats, activism, eye contact and lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons.

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons premiered at Warwick Arts Centre in 2015 and won three Judges’ Awards at the National Student Drama Festival, before appearing at Latitude Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Camden People’s Theatre, London.

Content warning: Contains strong language and sexual references.

Booking www.ticketsource.co.uk/ progresstheatre