Friday 4th July 2025

Culture

‘Pour summer in a glass’: retracing Dandelion Wine

“You did not hear them coming. You hardly heard them go. The grass bent down, sprang up again. They passed like cloud shadows downhill ... the boys of summer,...

Reviving the symposium at the Ashmolean Krasis programme

Dara Mohd, herself a Krasis Scholar, converses with Dr Jim Harris about his object-centred symposium program, Krasis, at the Ashmolean Museum.

‘This Room Their Lives’ in Magdalen College’s Waynflete building

Every Magdalen member remembers their first encounter with the Waynflete Building. Sticking out a...

In More, Pulp aren’t just trading on nostalgia – they’re fresh

In a year where many are talking about one Britpop band in particular –...

Review: Oxford Folk Weekend

Susan Yu finds Oxford Folk Weekend to be on good form

Preview: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Angus Hawkins highly recommends this outstanding production

Welcome to Wadstock

Cherwell spends the weekend at Oxford's favourite festival

Seeing a man about a dog

Christy Edwall speaks to author Mark Haddon about what comes after a bestseller

Oxford Oddities #3 – Univ

Viccy Ibbett explores the history of our colleges to discover eccentric artistic personalities, delving into Univ's past

A Bluffers’ Guide to: Anton Chekhov

Our weekly guide for the theatrically illiterate talks you through the Russian literary genius

May the Norse be with you

Rosalee Edwards defends our idiosyncratic Old English module from its critics

Preview: The Soldier’s Tale

Rosalee Edwards' expectations are exceeded by this devilish dance piece

Not so swinging sixties

Adam Whiley finds fault with an autobiography that is doesn't live up to it's promises.

Hey There Delilah

Patrick Scott talks to Delilah about beginning her solo career and putting together her debut album

Review: Demons’ Land

Nick Morgan is brought into a new theatrical world, in which Spenser's most famous work is adapted to great effect

Preview: The Penal Colony

Kuba Stawiski leaves this preview brimming with enthusiasm for this forthcoming adaptation of Kafka's short shorty

Review: Two Gentlemen of Verona

Finola Austin is impressed by Barbarian Productions' bounding enthusiasm in this early Shakespearean comedy

Preview: Blithe Spirit

Emily Troup enjoys Blithe Spirit, albeit with some misgivings

Preview: A Doll’s House

Dull or droll? Marc Pacitti takes an advance look at A Doll's House

Preview: Tamings

Bria Thomas and Ruby Riley talk to the directors and some cast members of 'Tamings', a show on at the Keble O'Reilly in 3rd week.

Review: Sweet Billy Pilgrim – Crown and Treaty

Marc Pacitti finds Sweet Billy Pilgrim caught in the void between critical acclaim and commercial success

Review: Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly – Maps

Susan Yu finds Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly to be playing it safe and failing to add anything new to his sound

Preview: Two Gentlemen of Verona

Pollyanna Marsden looks forward to this fun production, set to play in Christ Church Cathedral gardens this week

Gold-standard Bronzes

Review of the Ashmolean's Olympics inspired exhibition of sculptures

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