“It’s a quiz — a quiz in a play with a quiz.” The Oxford don Dr Stuart Lee is describing his new play.
“It is also about the loss of pubs. It is set in a pub. In fact we are staging it in a pub on George Street.”
If anyone is well placed to usher Oxford audiences into a new concept in theatre it is Dr Lee — for in many ways he is something of a new concept in higher education himself.
When we first met four years ago, it was to talk about the world’s largest Great War archive, which had just been created at Oxford University.

He wanted to appeal to the public for letters, diaries, poems, artefacts and photographs that people had hidden away at home.

Expecting to meet a historian, it turned out that he was, in fact, the director of computing systems and services at Oxford University — although one who had trained as a Medievalist, was a member of the university’s English faculty and had a specialist knowledge about the Great War and the war poets.


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