Thursday 6th November 2025

Culture

Sin and nectar: Behind the scenes of ‘Women Beware Women’

I arrived at a rehearsal of Women Beware Women and found Hippolito (Kit Parsons) and Isabella (Céline Mathilda), uncle and niece, embracing and sharing an incestous kiss flavoured by...

Well-managed complexity: ‘In Praise of Love’ 

In Praise of Love by Terence Rattigan was a play well-chosen in today’s political...

Fashion around Oxford – Iggy Clarke

Iggy Clarke, the president of the 2025 Oxford Fashion Gala, shares her style secrets and where she’s shopping right now.

Look up! Statues and gargoyles in Oxford

Walking around Oxford you often feel like you’re part of the city’s tourist attraction....

Review: Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City

Marc Pacitti doesn't think these vampires suck!

Review: Treetop Flyers – The Mountain Moves

Jack Chown enjoys an album that walked right out of the past

How to have great taste and alienate everyone

Eleanor Sharman gets all twee, and tells you how to do the same

Did Made in Chelsea deserve that BAFTA?

Following MIC's BAFTA win, Veronica Heney gives her opinion on the controversial show

Review: Frost/Nixon

Kate Tuohy gives four stars to the production of Frost/Nixon at the Union this week.

The Top 12 – 5th Week

Marc Pacitti looks ahead to the top cultural events of 3rd week.

Review: I’m So Excited

Despite some funny lines, Joel Casey finds the latest film from Pedro Almodóvar substandard

Review: Star Trek Into Darkness

Georgina Pollard finds the latest Star Trek film a spocktacular triumph

Ready for your screen test?

Alexander Woolley revises the best and worst of exams on screen

Preview: The Cosmonaut’s Last Message…

Darya Schchepanovska gives a three-star preview to this modern Daivd Greig play, showing at the Keble O'Reilly in 5th week.

A visit to the Dashmolean

How to do the Ashmolean in an hour

Consciously Good

Stephen Willats's exhibition dignifies his pedestrian subject matter

Getting Ziggy with it

In his new book about Ziggy Stardust, Simon Goddard wants his pop geniuses to be aliens...

Preview: The Wind in the Willows

This garden play will be performed in the St. Peter's Gardens and promises to be a roaring success

Americanisms: I could most definitely care less

Marc Pacitti rebuffs British concerns about the dangers of Americanization

Interview: Michael Morpurgo

Anna Leszkiewicz talks to Michael Morpurgo about his hope for a world without walls

Spotlight On… Some Funny

Helen Reid interviews the cast of Oxford's newest sketch show, on how they plan on providing at least Some Funny to audiences in 5th week.

Review: Ashurbanipal

Alex Wilson was shaken but entertained by the lyricism and expressive choreography of this piece of new writing

Perfect Punting Playlist

Cherwell Music go for a punt and give you some perfect tunes...

Preview: An Inspector Calls

Samuel Graydon previews An Inspector Calls, the Trinity term play from St Hilda's Drama Society, showing on Friday and Saturday of 4th week.

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