Saturday 8th November 2025

Culture

Erotic suspense and trickery: ‘Twelfth Night’ at St Hugh’s 

Lovers mismatched, siblings detached, and plans of trickery hatched: it is the time of year for Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (otherwise known as What you will), performed in St Hugh’s...

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

I arrived at a rehearsal of Women Beware Women and found Hippolito (Kit Parsons)...

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.

Cuppers Review: Making A Scene

Kathryn Bennett enjoyed this sneak peak at a drama rehearsal in the bog

Future Perfect: Book Review

Josh Cowls reviews Future Perfect by Steven Johnson, a book that looks at 'networked thinking' and its impact on progress

Preview: Oxford University Sinfonietta

Katy Wright picks out her must-see end of term event.

Taking a Leith out of her Book

Patrick Scott finds a lot to admire when talking to Prue Leith about her career as a businesswoman and author.

Review: ‘This Christmas Night’: Worcester College Choir

Katy Wright finds Worcester College Choir to more than live up to Oxford's tough choral scene.

Preview: Titus Andronicus

Finola Austin sees an active, unusual and promising production of the gory classic

Review: Swimming Home, by Deborah Levy

Ellie Halls has misgivings about Deborah Levy's much lauded, but unsettling novel

Review: Crystal Castles – (III)

A dizzying assault on the senses from the Canadian experimental duo.

Riding An Awesome Wave

Olivia Arigho Stiles talks drugs and debauchery with 2012 Mercury Prize winners Alt-J

Bonfire Bonanza

Sophie Baggott and Freddie Bowerman remember remember the fifth of November

Behind the Scenes: Volpone XXX

Volpone goes for the gutter in a unique analysis of marketing strategies

Preview: Jane Eyre

Evy Cavalla expects great things from Polly Teale's reworking of a classic

Zoom in on…OU Photo

Oxford University Photography Society president Carl Turpie talks to Sophie Baggott about honing your photography skills in Oxford

Review: Beats

Heather Young urges you to see this experimental piece of new writing

Review: A Little Night Music

Evy Cavalla finds this play strong in performance, but lacking in its content

Review: A Country Doctor

Francesca Cioni recommends this unique and vivid experience

Review: Life Sentence

Despite its many flaws, Life Sentence offers an audacious and dynamic production

A decade under the influence

Patrick Scott talks to The Cribs about being ten years old.

Review: Rust and Bone

Georgina Pollard is put through the wringer by this powerful French drama

Preview: O Human Child

Max Dalton urges readers to be lured into this Bacchanal ritual.

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