Culture

Seeped in nostalgia: ‘Things I Know To Be True’ reviewed

Lighthouse Productions' 'Things I Know to Be True' had high expectations to meet. Put frankly, they nailed it.

Culture Charlie Bailey -

Well-educated, fairly bred, but without money: Gissing’s ‘Collected Short Stories’

Hassan Akram reviews the Collected Short Stories of George Gissing, edited and introduced by Pierre Coustillas.

Books Hassan Akram -

Let’s go to the movies: Fennec Fox Productions’ ‘The Flick’

After their staging of Company at the Oxford Playhouse earlier this term, Fennec Fox Productions are set to return next week with a run of The Flick (2013) at the Burton Taylor Studio.

Culture Beatrix Arnold -

A deeply Singaporean play: In conversation with ‘Late Company’

OUMSSA Theatre makes their debut with Jordan Tannahill’s Late Company. While the text originated in Canada, OUMSSA Theatre’s take on it is nonetheless entrenched in Singaporean culture.

Culture Jessica Phillips -

Fear of Flipping Burgers

Barney Norris talks about his upcoming play

Preview: Eight

JY Hoh is impressed by a production that has all the ingredients for success

Review: The Laramie Project

Verbatim theatre done impressively well, says James Gandhi

Review: The Cherry Orchard

Evie C. Ioannidi is pleasantly surprised at this Chekhov production

On your marks, get sets… watch!

Alexandra Sutton asks why the box set remains so popular in the age of the internet

Review: Black Mirror

Huw Fullerton thoroughly enjoys this neat sci-fi fable, the first episode of Brooker's new series

Review: This is 40

Not All It's Knocked Up To Be: Rehanna Jones-Boutaleb reckons this comedy is too meandering to even be entertaining

If you liked… Star of Love by Crystal Fighters

Luke Barratt gives you the summer in the middle of February

Going Underground

Nina Black takes a look at the tube's largest ever commission

Review: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away

Jack Chown admires the remarkable resilience of the ageing rocker

Review: Foals – Holy Fire

Gruffudd Owen enjoys Foals' firey baptism into a fresh sound

Interview: Stornoway

Jack Chown muses about music with Oxford's favourite zorbers

Interview: Rich Peppiatt

Alexia Millett talks to Rich Peppiatt, the man who made the Leveson Inquiry a laughing matter

Preview: Arcadia

St. Hilda's production of this difficult play looks promising

Focus on… the New Writing Festival

Tess Colley talks to writers and directors from OUDS' annual festival

Preview: The Cherry Orchard

JY Hoh is impressed at a thoughtful and precise staging of The Cherry Orchard

Schwitter and Degenerate Art

“A fascinating exploration of an interesting artist”

Preview: The Laramie Project

Will Obeney is impressed by this piece of verbatim theatre

Preview: Princess Ida

Evie C. Ioannidi enjoys this quaint production

Walls of Jericho

A walk through Jericho on a sunny February afternoon

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