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Beverley Craven; Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot, April 16; Kenton Theatre, Henley, April 8

9:00am Wednesday 17th March 2010

SINGER-songwriter Beverley Craven is enjoying “a rebirth” almost 20 years after her first hit single Promise Me.

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Therese Raquin; Abingdon Drama Club; Unicorn Theatre, Abingdon, March 24-27

9:00am Wednesday 17th March 2010

Thérèse Raquin, Émile Zola’s classic novel, will be part of the Abingdon Arts Festival next week.

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I Love You Phillip Morris

3:17pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

Jim Carrey delivers his best dramatic performance since Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in the improbable and utterly incredible true story I Love You Phillip Morris. Based on a novel by investigative reporter Steve McVicker, the film charts the romance of two prison inmates and their subsequent journey of self-discovery on both sides of the bars.

St Birinus School Concert; Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot, March 18

9:00am Wednesday 10th March 2010

YOUNG Didcot musicians are tuning up for their annual spring performance in the town, writes Colin Palmer.

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Round and Round the Garden; Domino Players, Lains Barn, Ardington, March 24-26

9:00am Wednesday 10th March 2010

THE Domino Players are aiming to send audiences home still laughing from their production of Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy Round and Round the Garden, writes Colin Palmer.

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Shutter island

1:22pm Wednesday 10th March 2010

The lunatics are taking over the asylum, or that’s what Martin Scorsese’s impeccably crafted psychological thriller Shutter Island would have us believe. But then perception and reality are completely blurred in this 1950s-set mystery, adapted by screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis from the best-seller by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone).

Improbable Friction; Sinodun Players; Wallingford Corn Exchange, March 23-27

9:00am Wednesday 3rd March 2010

IMAGINATIONS run riot at a meeting of a writers’ circle in Alan Ayckbourn’s Improbable Fiction.

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Prescription for Murder; Old Gaol Theatre Company; Unicorn Theatre, Abingdon, March 10-13

9:00am Wednesday 3rd March 2010

THE Old Gaol Theatre Company promises to have audiences on the edge of their seats with its spring production, Prescription for Murder, by Norman Robbins.

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Alice in Wonderland

4:41pm Wednesday 3rd March 2010

Combining a unique aesthetic, conjured from his twisted imagination, with dark humour and heartfelt emotion, Tim Burton has remained a visionary in a sea of profit-driven conformity.

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From Paris With Love and Leap Year

6:40am Thursday 25th February 2010

Paris: the city of romantic overtures, fine cuisine, sartorial elegance, and crunching cars chases along the Avenue des Champs-Elysees. Director Pierre Morel returns to the scene of previous cinematic crimes for From Paris With Love, an explosive tour of the capital in the company of two mismatched US agents on a quest to dismantle a terrorist cell.