Sunday 8th June 2025

Culture

‘Love in the face of hate’: A closer look at ‘Blood Wedding’

Emma Nihill Alcorta is the director of a new adaptation of the Spanish masterpiece Blood Wedding, running at the Oxford Playhouse. With flamenco rhythms and Spanish soul, our passionate ensemble...
Theatre Emma Nihill Alcorta -

Duplicity, infidelity and loyalty in ‘Crocodile Tears’

“An Italian summer romance that goes wrong” – this is how Crocodile Tears was...
Theatre Phoebe Davies -

Review: The Great Gatsby – ‘Indulge the extravaganza’

Sophia Eiden’s production of Simon Levy’s script of The Great Gatsby is an undoubted...
Theatre Peter Chen -

Barry Lyndon – Kubrick’s ultimate antifilm?

Barry Lyndon has always been dismissed within Kubrick’s filmography. While he is a filmmaker...
Film Ruby Tipple -
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Grappling with graffiti

Jorge López Llorente loses himself in the visual trickery of art and graffiti

Richard Burton’s well trodden boards

In the latest installment of Through the Looking Glass, Daniel Curtis investigates the past of the Burton Taylor Studio

Conjuring some museum magic

Altair Brandon-Salmon is astounded by the Ashmolean’s Islam exhibition, Power and Protection

Review: It Felt Empty

Amaris Proctor is impressed by this immersive and thought-provoking explanation of the human effects of sex trafficking—a four star production

Preview: It Felt Empty

Miriam Nemmaoui looks forward to a hard-hitting and sensitive production

Live review: The Lovely Eggs, Cellar

Ellen Peirson-Hagger looks under the shell of The Lovely Eggs

Getting it right: political commentary and rap

David Lawton highlights the political potential of rap, and consigns folk and punk to the dustbin of history

A dark trend in music documentaries

David Lawton argues that the rebirth of the tortured artist’s image in music documentaries exploits pain

Rewind: The Gunpowder Plot

Thomas Athey seeks to learn the lessons of the Gunpowder Plot

Memes, Trump and MLG

William Shaw analyses the past, present and future of YouTube memes

Preview: Frankenstein

Nina Sandelson comments on this week's bold reimagining of the classic Gothic horror at the O'Reilly

“Dear Non-American Black…”

Hannah Chukwu discovers a new way to talk about race and multiculturalism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

Scientists of the literary world

Daniel Villar marvels at those who bridge the divide between disciplines

US Elections: The Movie

Katie Sayer gives you comedy options for the end times brought about by the turbulent US election

Review: The Accountant

Despite Ben Affleck's performance as an action-ready autistic accountant, Markus Beeken is left amused but unconvinced by The Accountant

Review: The Nether

Nina Crisp is sucked into virtual reality by a magnificent production at the Playhouse

Backstage with Sharon Yip

Sapphire Shoferpoor and Sharon Yip talk clubs, directors, and getting creative on a budget

Review: The Skriker

Matt Roberts is seriously creeped out by this baby stealing, terror inducing Pilch show

Drugs, Childbirth, and Sandwiches: Trojan Women Review

Olivia Cormack enjoys an enthralling production of a darkly comic play about women after war

Review: Copenhagen

Mark Barclay tackles quantum theory and self referentiality at the Pilch
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