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...
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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...
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Folk, it is a-changin’

Daniel Villar discusses Bob Dylan’s legacy and the folk revival

Review: Michael Kiwanuka at the O2 Academy

Ellen Peirson-Hagger is enthralled by the variety of musical influences in Kiwanuka’s endearing set

Review: A Woman Killed with Kindness

Priya Khaira-Hanks is impressed by emotionally nuanced performances which compensate for the lack of sub-plot

Preview: The Nether

Matt Roberts grapples with the ethics of child abuse and virtual realities ahead of this astonishing Playhouse production

Review: Guys and Dolls

Katie Sayer is blown away by Guys and Dolls at the O'Reilly

Review: The Lesser Bohemians

Benjamin Davies finds emotional intimacy marred by gimicky style

Through the Looking Glass: Gerard Manley Hopkin’s Oratory

Daniel Curtis steps inside Hopkins' spiritual inspiration

“I’m scared Charlie please come”

Benedict George takes a trip into the surreal with a phone that refuses to leave its owner in peace

Fanny Price: Unsung heroine

Thomas Peet gives a fresh take on the defective heroine of Mansfield Park

Rediscovering Halloween

Emma Leech looks back on Halloween’s transience through her adolescence

OxFolk review: ‘The Ties that Bind’

Ben Ray looks at Mawkin's latest album, The Ties that Bind

Preview: Guys and Dolls

Teddy Briggs is swept off her feat by an all singing all dancing production of the iconic musical

Oxford Film Network: Open Screen

Una O’Sullivan is drawn to Oxford’s filmmaking community at a Cowley short film ‘open mic’ night

Review: Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

Benjamin Davies takes pleasure in the wait but is disappointed by the overwraught ending

In defence of non-fiction literature

Daniel Villar thinks the Nobel Prize committee has neglected non-fiction

Cherwell Film School: Writing a Screenplay

Cherwell Film School elucidates the art of screenplay writing.

Cherwell Film School: Eight Key Film-making Roles

Cherwell Film School tells you about the core team required to start your film-making dreams.

Live review: Ward Thomas at the O2 Academy

Coming onto the stage with an undeniably acoustic sound, Ward Thomas feel strangely out of place with the Bullingdon’s notorious grimy vibe. Somewhere behind...

Brideshead, revisited: Oxford then and now

Altair Brandon-Salmon compares Charles Ryder’s day with our own

Backstage with Claudia Graham

Sapphire Shoferpoor talks to Claudia Graham about production, funding, and reining in directors
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