Tuesday 26th August 2025

Culture

‘Timestamp’ at the Fringe: Existing in the ‘now’

★★★★☆ Timestamp is a part-theremin, part-dance exploration of womanhood, expectation, and time. Brought to the Edinburgh Fringe after a successful run in New York City by Emilee Lord and Karen...

Architectural and religious fusions in Andalusia and Oxford

Oxford is a city deeply entwined with religion. With the first of its colleges...

‘HOLE IN THE WALL L’HOPITAL’ at Fringe

★★★☆☆ Everything I write ends up being about grief – I suppose this review only...

Beyond the binary: Leigh Bowery’s radical individuality

Tate Modern's "Leigh Bowery!" refuses easy categorisation—much like its subject A fashion student from Sunshine,...

Review: Kishi Bashi – Lighght

Adam Piascik reviews the celestial new album by violinist Kishi Bashi

Review: Amen Dunes – Love

The fourth offering from this Philadelphia based musician is reviewed by Kevin Harris

Live Review: Gang of One

Claire Poynton-Smith checked out one-man-band Gang of One at the Cape of Good Hope

Review: Pompeii

Fergus Morgan finds this 'historical' disaster epic to be shallow, undeveloped and just plain boring

Review: Blue Ruin

Matthew Main finds Saulnier's revenge thriller to be poignant and understated

All the world’s a screen

Marcus Balmer looks at how film has reinterpreted Shakespeare

Review: Tracks

A long and mesmerising push through the lonely, breath-taking spaces of Australia

Drenge: Isolation and Frustration

Rushabh Haria talks to Rory Loveless from Drenge about their recent success

Preview: Into the Woods

Naomi Polonsky is charmed by this 'fairy tale gone a bit mad'

Bluebells in Bloom

Dockey Woods, England

Preview: Collaborators

Bethan Roberts hotly anticipates the staging of this political and psychological drama

Live Review: HANDY at New College Cloisters

Maria Fred Perevedentseva reviews an intimate, experimental performance from the HANDY music project, exploring how we engage with live music

Interview: Waiting for Godot director Alex Foster

Jordan Reed talks to Alex Foster, director of Waiting for Godot, on at the Burton Taylor Studio in 2nd week

Preview: Lord of the Flies

Vicky Holley is excited about this upcoming literary adaptation

Review: Mad Men

Matthew Main finds the first two episodes a promising start to this final series

Preview: Lungs

Jenni Ashby takes a look at the play about different types of love being performed as part of Brasenose Arts Week

Not your ordinary Odeon

Fergus Morgan uncovers the secret world of alternative cinemas

From Page to Stage

Luke Rollason chats to two directors of Lord of the Flies and Frankenstein, literary adaptations coming to the stage in Trinity

Colours of Budapest

Budapest, Hungary

Interview: Hudson Taylor

Lucy Thompson chats to the Irish folk-pop duo about their journey from YouTube to the charts, and why they still enjoy playing impromptu on the underground

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