THE Theatre at Chipping Norton has a variety of activities on offer during half term for children and adults.

Workshops on offer for children have a space age theme and include dance classes today from 10am to 11am for four to six-year-olds and from 11.30am to 1pm for six to eight-year-olds.

Youngsters aged four to six will also have the chance to make their own alien out of clay in a clay workshop held tomorrow from 10am to 11am.

Tickets for both workshops are priced between £4 and £6.

A chance to experience African culture will be on offer when Ibadi offer a music and dance workshop and a performance of traditional African dance on Saturday.

The talented troupe with hold a workshop at 12.30pm followed by a performance at 8pm which combines rhythms, vocals, acrobatics, poetry, drama and dance from Africa.

Dances include the Atilogwu dance, the Apepe and the Swange, all from various parts of Nigeria, and hold deeply symbolic meanings and significance.

Tickets for the workshop are £8 and tickets for the show are £10, concessions £8.

Adults will enjoy Patrick Marber's portrayal of 1990s sexual politics in Closer, performed by London Classic Theatre next Tuesday at 8pm.

The story of four strangers, a journalist, a photographer, a doctor and a stripper, is a compelling study of love, sex and betrayal which will bring on pangs of recognition in anyone who has loved and lost, experienced infidelity or felt love die.

Tickets for the show, which is recommended for over 16s, are £10, concessions £8.

Journalist and broadcaster Janet Street-Porter will bring her one-woman show to Chipping Norton next Wednesday.

All The Rage will be a frank discussion about her fraught relationship with her mother, men and husbands, mothers-in-law, her career from presenter to top BBC executive and Editor at Large on the Independent on Sunday.

Tickets for the show, which starts at 8pm, are £10, concessions £8, and all tickets are available from the box office on 01608 642350.