Hot Rats (A Cinematic Cabaret)18+
The rats return to help save independent cinema and local venues – with your host Alfred Ratcock (plus compliments from The Chef). This one’s a special: the rats are loose in the Ultimate Picture Palace on Jeune Street, just off Cowley Road. The UPP is Oxford’s oldest cinema, community-owned by over 1,200 local people, and fighting for a lease long enough to secure its future. Head over to savetheupp.com and donate to help keep this amazing local venue alive.
‘Hot Rats’ is a cabaret night for experimental, sexy, whimsical, genre/gender bending, queer, poetry, comedy, drag, music and performance art in Oxford. Get your ratty little bodies down where creativity and inspiration festers, thrives and survives. ‘Hot Rats’ is a night where anything goes. Doors at 7:30pm. Show/exposé starts at 8pm. Bring your mates, bring your bodies and come and nibble away at our ears…
See ya there little ratties! 🔥🐀
NOTE: if you cannot afford a ticket, please drop us a message on Instagram (@hotrats.oxford) or give us an email at [email protected]. Nobody will be turned away due to lack of funds, but tickets may be sold out on the door if you don’t let us know in advance.
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We showed Hot Rats (A Cinematic Cabaret) between September 29, 2026 and September 29, 2026.
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Our beautiful art deco inspired auditorium can be found just off East Oxford's Cowley Road.We are open 7 days a week. We open the cinema and box office 30 minutes before the scheduled start time of each film, and the Box Office then closes 10 minutes after the film starts. We only show a few adverts – less than most cinemas – and we only play a couple of trailers, so please don’t be late as the film itself starts very close to the advertised time!





