Saturday 8th November 2025

Culture

Erotic suspense and trickery: ‘Twelfth Night’ at St Hugh’s 

Lovers mismatched, siblings detached, and plans of trickery hatched: it is the time of year for Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (otherwise known as What you will), performed in St Hugh’s...

Sin and nectar: Behind the scenes of ‘Women Beware Women’

I arrived at a rehearsal of Women Beware Women and found Hippolito (Kit Parsons)...

Well-managed complexity: ‘In Praise of Love’ 

In Praise of Love by Terence Rattigan was a play well-chosen in today’s political...

Fashion around Oxford – Iggy Clarke

Iggy Clarke, the president of the 2025 Oxford Fashion Gala, shares her style secrets and where she’s shopping right now.

Online Preview: The Shape of Things

Somebody’s life is always worse than yours - an 8th week Schadenfreude pick-me-up at the Burton Taylor

Online Review: Peter Pan

Will Hooper embraces his inner child with Worcester's offering for 7th week

Online Review – Tamlane

Fairy tales told through interpretative dance - could it be just deranged enough to work?

Gone with the wand

Robin McGhee revels in the stylish awkwardness of the new Harry Potter.

Not quite the American dream

Cherwell meets the director of The American, but can't disguise our disappointment with the film.

Photo Blog – penultimate

The end is (nearly) in sight. Some more photos to get you through.

Interview: Lesley Manville

Joe Zigmond talks to the star of Mike Leigh's new film, Another Year

First Night Review: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

Peaches and dynamite: Oliver Moody on the best chapel play he has seen in a long while

The Write Stuff

'With novels, there’s no danger that the special effects budget will eat into the script-writers’ allowance'

Dinner gets just desserts

Anna Milne laps up this week’s sumptuous offering at the Burton Taylor

Online Preview: The Enemies

Oliver Moody is confused, consternated and slightly concussed by the latest new writing at the Burton Taylor

Review: Kisses – THe Heart of the Nightlife

Matt Walsh shares passionate kisses with an accomplished debut album

The film > the novel: the great debate

Cherwell Film takes two sparkling adaptations that bring dull pages to life on the silver screen

The reel deal

Joe Zigmond leads the charge for Film in their war against the novel

Preview: A Streetcar Named Desire

Anna Milne talks to the Director of the Playhouse show of the term

When more is more

Carla Neuss is exhausted by the intensity of the love and the emotion of the money in Dennis Kelly’s 'Love and Money'

The Rudi awakening of dubstep

Laurence Osborn talks to Rudi Zygadlo about the producer’s status in and outside of dubstep music

Photo Blog – 6th week!

Term is well over halfway through, and our blog just keeps on getting better

Alternative India

Mandy Ahmed looks at India's New Wave cinema and why it's more than just a drop in the ocean

Bully for Bollywood

Abby Nira kicks off a Bollywood special with a review of what is arguably India's greatest film

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