Saturday 5th July 2025

Culture

‘Pour summer in a glass’: retracing Dandelion Wine

“You did not hear them coming. You hardly heard them go. The grass bent down, sprang up again. They passed like cloud shadows downhill ... the boys of summer,...

Reviving the symposium at the Ashmolean Krasis programme

Dara Mohd, herself a Krasis Scholar, converses with Dr Jim Harris about his object-centred symposium program, Krasis, at the Ashmolean Museum.

‘This Room Their Lives’ in Magdalen College’s Waynflete building

Every Magdalen member remembers their first encounter with the Waynflete Building. Sticking out a...

In More, Pulp aren’t just trading on nostalgia – they’re fresh

In a year where many are talking about one Britpop band in particular –...

Review: The Country

Martin Crimp's tense three-hander is both gripping domestic drama and thought-provoking philosophical comment, says Fergus Morgan

Review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

Lata Nobes finds the latest Hunger Games a compelling watch

The good, the bad and the BBFC

Ollie Johnson looks at the forgotten role of the BBFC in modern cinema

Lessons from the Script Room

Olivia Sung spills the secrets of the soap opera script department

Preview: The Country

Martin Crimp's taut thriller has the potential to utilise the BT Studio effectively when it arrives there in Eighth Week, says Fergus Morgan

Review: Ridley’s Choice

Izzy Neil is impressed by James P. Mannion's latest play

Interview: The Oxford Imps

This term, nine new performers join Oxford's improvised comedy troupe - we get the inside info.

Interview: Louise Chantal

Fergus Morgan talks to the newly-appointed Chief Executive of the Oxford Playhouse

Review: Carousel

Bethan Roberts doesn't feel that this 1940s musical has stood the test of time

Why the two-part finale is not as new as you think

Sam Joyce argues that the split finale is a relic of cinema's past

Review: Assassins

We're impressed by this darkly comic Sondheim musical

Preview: Jackson and Grummitt – Planet Marmalade

Fergus Morgan meets the latest in a long line of Oxbridge comedy duos ahead of their BT sketch show in eighth week

Review: OBA Short Film Screening

Tom Barrie finds a wonderful range of student-made films showcased at OBA's annual screening.

Preview: Ridley’s Choice

Naomi Polonsky gets an insight into this thought-provoking piece of new theatre

Emily Russell: colours of Matisse and shapes of Malevich

Naomi Polonsky goes for an intense coffee with one of Oxford’s up-and-coming artists

Review: Red Red Meat – There’s A Star Above The Manger…

'An abyss of distorted ambience' – Jack Chown reviews the latest reissue from Red Red Meat

Review: The Oxford Revue’s Christmas Party

Lily McIlwain enjoys an uproarious evening of comedy

Drama Cuppers 2014: A Judge’s View

Anna Corderoy, OUDS Fresher's Rep and Cuppers Judge, gives us her thoughts on this year's competition

Review: Mark McGuire – Noctilucence

McGuire's latest release surpasses Kayleigh Tompkins' expectations

Review: Nathan Bowles – Nansemond

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull finds the new Nathan Bowles record both unvaried and uninspiring

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