June 2007 - Cherwell

Summer Archival

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I’m Running Faster, but the Finish Line is further away

There's a weird paradox in the way Gen Y lives and works. Everywhere I am reading about how the Millennials are super-driven, hyper-informed, search...

"Are We There Yet?": Interview with Rosie Whitehouse

In Sarajevo, as the wife of a BBC war correspondent, Rosie Whitehouse and her five children “heard the firing of the shots that started...

Voteforme.com: electoral politics and Web 2.0

Once upon a time, Facebook was for Ivy Leaguers, iPods were for tech geeks, and CNN was for the politicos.Nowadays, Oxford tutors are on...

Coffee Break: Introducing Instant Cappuccino

Hi all,I’m taking a break from end-of-year packing to introduce myself, and this blog, to you. Mine is a big packing job, since I’m...

First Night Review: The Balcony

Genet’s The Balcony is a very strange play. First performed in London in 1957, its opening night was laced with drama as Genet accused...

First Night Review: Government Inspector

This version of ‘The Government Inspector’, directed by Sophie Pinn, is a lively, fast-moving comedy that provides a fun night of light entertainment. Gogol’s...

‘Big Damn Movie’ on the Big Damn Screen: Firefly / Serenity at the UPP

I’ve just heard that some members of OU staff are screening the feature-length pilot of Joss Whedon’s show Firefly at the Ultimate Picture Palace...

The Writing on the Wall

Graffiti currently covers most international cities’ public surfaces and urban scrawl can even be seen deep into the suburbs and country villages. Yet debates...

Feature: The "Mile" High Club

t’s that time of the year again. Thesps all over Oxford are frantically scouring the OUDS website in search of a ‘free’ ticket to...

Aeneid: The Musical

Aeneid: The Musical is thigh-slapping, hearty, old-fashioned nerdy fun. The classics department’s jolly panto is high-brow slapstick; it’s not veering into the sub-terrain of...

The Balcony

Trinity 8th Week has got to be the elephant’s graveyard of serious drama. All the big productions with your Chanyas and your Charlies have...

The Government Inspector

Set in Tsarist Russia, this fast-moving, almost corybantic comedy of errors extols the energy of a Carry On and farcical irony of an episode...

Product

For those of you who believe that a play marketing itself as a "monologue for two" smacks of typical Oxford pretention, go against your...

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