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Red Hart Rooms

Also called the Red Hart

Oxford's principal secular concert and assembly hall, placing secular music, visiting players and shortened opera under the uneasy gaze of Chapter and council.

A licensed house in Oxford where players from the capital perform what Oxford will receive: shortened, the moral plain, the ending corrected. An Oxford venue that performs a shortened moral version of The Last Lantern.

Named with it

  • Eleanor Cresset, the Deep Bell · contralto who returns each winter

At the table

Performs Lucia Saye's The Last Lantern in a shortened Oxford version, to audiences of canons, merchants and ministers in equal embarrassment.