Tuesday 2nd June 2026

Culture

OUFF’s ‘The Oxford Tales’: Celebrating student filmmaking at Oxford

It’s no secret that Oxford has long been an idealised location for film sets; official-looking SUVs with blacked-out windows and attendants in high vis parading up and down Catte Street and around the Rad Cam are a not-unfamiliar sight.

Behind the red curtain: ‘Stories From an Abandoned Warehouse’ reviewed

Leo Jones reviews Crazy Child Productions' performance of 'Stories From an Abandoned Warehouse', the first English staging of the play.

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Oxford on-screen: Historical atmosphere and fantasy worlds

Ideally, we should strike a balance; an awareness of the reality of life at Oxford can co-exist with an appreciation of its grand architecture and historical atmosphere.

Review: The Get-Out

Yara Rodrigues Fowler applauds the best piece of student writing she has seen as Oxford yet

Review: Titus Andronicus

Darya Shchepanovska delights in the reworking of this bloody tragedy

Cuppers Review: Hamlet the Musical

Anya Metzer finds Christ Church's starling reworking of this Shakespearian tragedy bizarrely effective

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

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