"Guys and Dolls". The Queen's College garden
The pre-show email from Guys and Dolls advises audience members to wrap up warm. Summer has come late to Oxford this year, and sitting in a college garden, motionless, for hours after the sun has set is not everyone's idea of a good night out. In other words (as Miss Adelaide might put it), just from sitting and watching a garden production unfold, a person can get very cold. Accordingly, I turned up at Queen's with merino gloves and a battery-powered, centrally-heated gilet. But I didn't need them. This joyful production radiates warmth from start to finish, and if anyone does get chilly, there are ample opportunities to clap your hands, as every number in Burrows' and Swerling's immortal musical about crapshooters and Save-a-Soul evangelists falling in love is a whoop-inducing showstopper. The opening song, I Got the Horse Right Here , starts with the traditional bugle fanfare Call to the Post , a sound which still begins every horse race in the USA. But in Guy...