Saturday 7th March 2026

Culture

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.

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.

Why I only run to classical music, and you should too

I decided on a whim to put on Gershwin instead of my usual playlist. It was life changing.

Questioning the nation’s obsession with ‘Love Island’

Love Island’s formulations have begun to seem increasingly sinister. Last summer’s season (series twelve) saw a particularly high number of complaints.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Director’s Blog

Kate O'Connor on the sex in Shakespeare

Andy Warhol: Billy Name and the superstar game

Jack Powell interviews Billy Name, Warhol’s lover, friend, and one of his ‘superstars’

Andy Warhol: Your 15 minutes of fame

Ceri Fowler discusses Warhol’s notorious hangout Studio 54

Andy Warhol: The Sound of the Underground

Natasha Frost on Warhol’s less than typical approach to his role as music producer for The Velvet Underground

Andy Warhol: Walking with the ghost

Cherwell Film take a look at Andy X, Jim Sharman’s ‘cinematic seance’ with Warhol

Culture Vulture 8th week

Cherwell’s culture editors gorge and feast on the remains of this term’s cultural offerings

Playing the politics of the piano

The pianist Lang Lang reveals China’s volatile relationship with classical music, writes En Khong

Preview: Out Through the In Door

After a sneak preview of this new piece of writing, Daniel Frampton is left intrigued and wanting more

Review: Rubber Dinghy

Daniel Frampton reviews what he considers to be one of the best productions this term

Review: Andy Eastwood, Holywell

Huw Fullerton reviews 'musical variety entertainer' Andy Eastwood's 'Return of the Uke' gig

Review: Gotye – Making Mirrors

Patrick Scott examines Gotye's incoherent Making Mirrors

Interview: Hopsin

Steffan Blayney talks to internet rap sensation Hopsin about going it alone and being true to yourself

Review: Antarctica

Natasha Frost is impressed by OUDS' New Writing Festival 'Antarctica', despite identifying some structural problems with the script

Who write the word? Girls.

Cherwell reconsiders 'women's writing'

Mosse-t Interesting

Jack Powell and Chloë Wicks speak to award-winning author Kate Mosse

The long and the short of it

Christy Edwall speaks with the new master of the short short story

The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Producer’s Blog

Sarah Leonard on the trials and tribulations of the audition process

Blockbusters and Bueller: the 80s in film

Anna Leszkiewicz seeks out the infectious enthusiasm and big displays of 1980s cinema

A ring of writers

Rebecca Loxton introduces Oxford brand new writer's circle

Skins at Season Six

Goh Li Sian bemoans the decline of the hit teen drama

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