Saturday 28th March 2026

Culture

Bridging Communities: Vocatio:Responsio’s Liverpool Tour

Vocatio:Responsio, meaning Call:Response in Latin, is an early music ensemble founded and directed by the Merseyside-based violinist Samuel Oliver-Sherry, a current third year music student at St Anne’s College....

‘Comedy is very deceptive’: Seán Carey on ‘Operation Mincemeat’

As a history student, you occasionally come across stories so strange they feel almost fictional. Operation Mincemeat is one of them.

How 2025’s biggest films made their mark through music

The recent Oscar nominations have allowed us to reflect on how fundamental musical scores are to film, and the highlights of last year’s film soundtracks.

Translating Oxford into Urdu

It’s a different emotion whenever I read the Urdu language. I’m not a native speaker, nor have I actively pursued learning the language, but as someone who finds solace in reading shayari (Urdu poetry), I wanted to follow it even in Oxford.

Cuppers Review: Wonderland

Quintin Caldwell is suitably impressed by David McShane's rendition of a Lewis Carrol classic

Cuppers Review: Real Inspector Hound

Evelyn Snow found herself tickled from the start from Stoppard's metatheatrical comedy

Cuppers Review: The Actor’s Nightmare

Luke Rollason is impressed by this thoroughly entertaining comedy

Cuppers Review: Google Knows Where You Live

Thea Slotover finds St John's attempt an amusing take on the Googleplex

Cuppers Review: 4.48 Psychosis

Josephone Mitchell found herself unconvinced by this adaptation of Sarah Kane's intense play

Cuppers Review: A Structured Panic

Chiara Bleckenwegner recommends not taking Linacre's down-to-earth comedy too seriously

Cuppers Review: DMV Tyrant

Chiara Bleckenwegner enjoyed St Catz's entry about two players and one game

Cuppers Review: Three Guys, One Cuppers

Max Long found this fetish filled Magdalen attempt wittily realised

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

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