Saturday 7th 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...

Duplicity, infidelity and loyalty in ‘Crocodile Tears’

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

Review: The Great Gatsby – ‘Indulge the extravaganza’

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

Barry Lyndon – Kubrick’s ultimate antifilm?

Barry Lyndon has always been dismissed within Kubrick’s filmography. While he is a filmmaker...

Live Review: Years & Years

Sam Joyce is stuck on the fence after their performance at the O2

Review: Jason Derulo – Everything is 4

Rachael Griffith is not surprised by the mediocrity of Derulo's new album

Review: DJ Antoine – I Woke Up Like This

George Dennis couldn't be happier with the new single from the Swiss DJ

In Defence of: Celebrity

Anthony Maskell finds Woody Allen's Celebrity to be a startlingly poignant satire

Letterman: The last of his kind

Ollie Johnson celebrates David Letterman's enduring talk-show legacy

The New old Greek Tragedies

Henner Petin makes a plea for the fantastic David Raeburn

Review: Elephants

Omar Hameed was enthralled by this escapist piece of original writing

Preview: Play and That Time

Patrick Oisin Mulholland is blown away by Beckett

Review: Girlhood

A powerfully intimate coming-of-age film. (And nothing to do with Boyhood)

Experimental Theatre Club

Words Words Words

Preview: Twelfth Night

An intriguing reinterpretation of a Shakespeare classic

Preview: Yesterday

Mark Barclay sees potential greatness for this piece of new writing

In Defence Of: Spring Breakers

Tom Barrie defends Selena Gomez and her murderous streak

Cinema: dead as a dodo?

Sam Joyce on why cinema is in a self-made terminal decline

Review: Mad Max

Toby Scadding enjoys vehicular carnage in this franchise revamp

Top 5 Songs to piss off a finalist

Rachael Griffith presents you with some truly inflammatory songs

Review: Gang Albanii – Królowie życia

Kieran Vaghela delves into the Polish Top 40

The last of the Beat poets

Catherine Kelly reviews Gary Snyder's latest collection

Review: A$AP Rocky – AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP

Tom Barrie isn't surprised by the high quality of A$AP Rocky's latest album

Gogol Bordello: the gypsy-punk band

Eliana Rosenfelder offers up something a little different

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