Having spent a rather exciting evening at a production of Oscar Wilde’s Salome, I found myself craving more provocative, violent and knee-tremblingly good theatre. On my return home, I hit the internet. In an act of almost instant serendipity, the gods, fate or Richard Dawkins (feel free to delete as appropriate to your own belief system) promptly alerted me to this article from Cherwell.org:

“Oxford Catholics have voiced their concern after it was revealed that tickets for the upcoming play ‘Antigone’ will include a discount on sex toys and pornography from ‘The Private Shop’ on Cowley Road. Antigone is due to be performed this Sunday evening at The Cellar, which has never hosted play productions before. There are rumours that drugs will also be circulating during performances, although director Jess Edwards stressed that the production team will be upholding the Cellar’s strict drugs policy at all times. Edwards said that the prospect of an S&M show in Oxford had been met with excitement by students...

…The performance is billed as ‘the closest a party can get to a play’ with a live DJ, strobe lighting and shot girls. The actors will move amongst audience members. The Oxford version of Antigone describes itself as a ‘highly sexualised production with a sadomasochism costume theme’. The production team claim that their version of the play is a visual way to bring out the excess of Greek tragedy, frightening and relevant to a modern audience.”

Original article here, and more details about the production here.