Monday 2nd March 2026

Culture

Lighthouse Productions on ‘Things I Know To Be True’

Fresh from the success of their debut production, Lighthouse Productions are set to deliver their second show: Andrew Bovell’s Things I Know to Be True (2016).
Culture Abigail Lakeland -

A masterclass in devising: ‘Noether’

This original play tells the story of the mathematician Emmy Noether and her struggles with the misogyny of her male peers against the backdrop of the rising Nazi state.
Culture Jessica Phillips -

In defence of academic writing

In my year out before my postgraduate degree, I made the momentous decision to start writing fiction. I’d recently got back into reading novels, and thought becoming a novelist would be an ideal way to commit my name to posterity.
Books Ben O'Brien -

“Everything is political!”: How The Hot Mess Project is reviving Oxford’s creative communities

If you’ve been online recently, browsing in search of something to fill an empty...
Art Maya Heuer-Evans -
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Cherwell Music presents Mixer: Farewell to 2011

Cherwell Music bids farewell to 2011 with a selection from the year's singles.

Sutherland-scapes

Jack Castle takes us on this week’s exhibition tour at Modern Art Oxford

Revolting Rhymes

Grace Goddard listens to performance poet Luke Wright waxing lyrical

Kabuki Groupie

Viccy Ibbett goes to the Ashmolean for a tutorial in Japanese art

Masters at Work

Viccy Ibbett speaks to Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature at Wolfson College and fictioneer

A Bluffers’ Guide to: Drone

Take a journey with Harry Scholes into the world of drone

New apprenticeship for Nick

Andrew Grey evaluates Nick Hewer's first appearence on Countdown

Review: The 2 Bears – Be Strong

James Shirley runs through The 2 Bears' successful debut album

Review: Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas

Richard O'Brien attends an intimate gig and Q&A session with Leonard Cohen as a preview to his new album, Old Ideas

Tim Hecker: organs, long-form and the death of rave

Harry Scholes talks to Tim Hecker about his latest album, Ravedeath, and his upcoming London concert

Shedding light on film noir

Matthew Perkins continues our Decades in Film feature, with films of the 40s

Review: Goon

Nathan O'Neill enjoys the blood and gore of Michael Dowse's ice-hockey comedy

Review: The Iron Lady

Nicholas Mutch looks at the latest incarnation of Margaret Thatcher

Review: Borgen

Rosie Oxbury takes a look at the internationally acclaimed Danish political drama

Memorialising Mephisto

Jessica Campbell on fascism and foreplay in the second Playhouse production this term

Hotseating The Hothouse

Charlotte Lennon interviews the stars of The Hothouse, Ruby Thomas and Ziad Samaha

Pictures from a beautiful mind

Rachel Savage meets artist Kit Williams to discuss his intricate, outlandish paintings and the inspirations behind his work

Dramatic Decorum and Interval Alcohol Etiquette

James Fennemore and Joshua Philips,the boys behind Brazen Cheek, cast their vote for the G&T

Welcome to the House of Play

Cherwell Stage on the history of Oxford’s most famous theatre

Press Preview: The Man Upstairs

John O'Connor enjoys, but remains unconvinced by, this piece of new writing.
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