Saturday 22nd November 2025

Culture

Witty, original and colourful: Tidal Theatre’s ‘Launa’

Tidal Theatre’s Launa (at the BT 18-22nd November) is exactly the kind of play that the student drama scene needs more of. It was original, witty, bold and colourful,...

Little Kitchen’s Christ Church concert is exactly what you need this Oxmas

Little Kitchen, an Oxford-based music collective, will be performing in Christchurch this Thursday. It's the perfect Oxmas treat.

‘Controversial but compelling’: ‘Women Beware Women’ Reviewed

CW: Sexual assault The Michael Pilch Studio might just have been the perfect venue for...

GCSE drama nostalgia: ‘The Detention’ review

The Detention provided its fair share of giggles, but whether that was a result...

Review: A Town called Panic

Dale Viva-Lee begins a Cherwell Film French special with one of the best and strangest films of the year

The French Connection

Evie Deavall bridges the Channel and discusses cinematic camaraderie with actor Jean-Claude Dreyfus

When dreaming spires no longer inspire

Annabel James reviews two new exhibitions which explore the meaning we give to the materials around us

Nothing rhymes with ‘polio’

Our de facto America correspondent Dave McLeod meets his nemesis in legendary author Philip Roth’s new novel, Nemesis.

Review: ‘I Don’t Want To See You Like This’

Matt Walsh runs over the new track from the Joy Formidable

Interview: Adam Buxton

Benjamin Kirby's extended interview with comedian, actor & radio presenter Adam Buxton

Interview: S1l3nc3

Oliver Moody talks to the acclaimed 'mind abuse' artist - in absolute silence

Review: Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up

Moneeb Nasir sizes up Oceansize's latest album, then heads to their gig for a reappraisal

Ionesco’s Play Is A Lesson For Us All

The futility of existence and pervasive erocticism: this play takes William Hooper back to school

Rekindling a passion for books

Jamie Randall takes on the traditionalists and finds himself E-lated by the prospect of electronic reading

Hie Sir Trevor to a Nunnery?

Carla Neuss anticipates Trevor Nunn’s appointment as an Oxford professor, and then wonders what he actually does

Internet on film

Like The Social Network? It's not the first of its kind

The Social Network

Joshua Rosaler was there at Facebook's foundation, and gives Cherwell the inside story

Review: Come Around Sundown

'Kings of Leon go for a scrappier aesthetic'

The privileges of being a Villager

Matt Walsh talks to Villagers' frontman Conor O'Brien about his song writing and Hermann Hesse

Review: The Social Network

A convincing, witty and devastating portrayal of relationships gone wrong.

Freshers’ guide to Oxford cinemas

A useful guide to Oxford's best places to stuff your face with popcorn.

Fragments from the Fringe

Cherwell Stagents Andrew McCormack, Rimika Solloway and Millie Towsend bring you the thrills and embarrassing spills from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Why we won’t bother to back the Booker

Chris de Beneducci wonders why Britain's foremost literary prize fails to connect with anybody under the age of twenty

‘Murder’ in Christ Church

A behind the scenes look at 'Murder in the Cathedral'

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