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....

Culture Evelyn Lambert -

‘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.

Culture Hattie Simpson -

‘People are so hungry to create together’: Lisa Ko on going analogue, crafting, and writing the future

It’s 11:02am in New York when Lisa Ko appears on the video call. In Oxford, the sun is almost down.

Books Abigail Lakeland -

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.

Culture Ruaridh McEwen -

Review: Lemonworld (New Writing Festival)

Andrew McCormack drinks up at the New Writing Festival

Review: The Tea Party

Ben Jacobs has a whale of a time at this haunting tea party

Never Let Me Go: Responses

Two more perspectives on the cinematic interpretation of Kazuo Ishiguro's dystopian Britain

Interview: Glyn Maxwell

A conversation with the playwright on Troy, poetry, and how verse can make it from the stage to the pubs

Review: Dr Faustus

Oliver Moody watches Marlowe's perennial classic lavishly resurrected in Blackwells.

First Night Review: Back to Back (New Writing Festival)

Cherwell takes a peep at Carla Neuss' tender but sometimes impersonal meditation on love

Review: Mahomet and Zaire

Francesca Wade is nearly but not quite convinced by these tales of religious fanaticism

Review: To Hold an Apple (New Writing Festival)

Rimika Solloway is pleasantly surprised by this semi-improvised offering

Review: Faultlines (New Writing Festival)

Francesca Wade watches someone swim out of the Burton Taylor...

Murder, they wrote

Are real murder cases fair game for the film and television industry?

The Oscars: A host of irritations

Cherwell is left cold by this year's bantering compères

On an uneventful night

The predictably predictable Academy Awards

Review: After the Dance

Amid a crumbling 1930s society, the dance must go on...

Review: Chekhov’s Baby

A 'must-see' production

Review: Accessory to Murder

Dana Walters pieces together the clues to discover a fine new drama

A song about flippers? S-imp-le

Francesca Wade is wowed by the Oxford Imps in rehearsal and in performance

Review: Five Noh Plays

Concepta Cassar is impressed by the creative combination of Ezra Pound and Erik Satie in Merton Chapel

Review: A Little Too Dark

Rosalyn Johnston sees crude jokes and dodgy accents redeemed by some very funny sketches

Review: True Grit

‘I’m too Old and Fat’ - Cherwell takes a look at re-making the Western.

Review: Year of the Rat

George Orwell finds love and talking animals on a remote island...

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