Tuesday 16th September 2025

Culture

Animal History: Reviewed

If an older adult has ever raised their eyebrow at your vegetarianism, then I might just have the book for you. They might be interested in knowing that even...

Hertford Archaeology Open Day: Medieval Oxford laid bare

You may have spent the last year wondering what has been going on amongst...

The Blue Trail: Reviewed

★★★★☆ The Blue Trail (O Último Azul), this year’s winner of the Berlin International Film...

Review: Sketches from a Curious Mind

In 1962, Edward Anthony wrote: “Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a...

Interview: Philip Pullman

Pullman talks dark materials and light comedy with Cherwell

Nuns and nipple-sucking

the strange world of the 24 hour play

Review: Terminator: Salvation

We're less than impressed by McG's reworking of an old favourite

Review: Lady Windermere’s Fan

Oscar Wilde, the patron playwright of Trinity, doesn't disappoint

Review: As the Mother of a Brown Boy

It all looks good - shame about the script, says our reviewer

Review: Three More Sleepless Nights

A show to make you slit your wrists - for all the right reasons!

The Insect Play

Cherwell reviews Trinity's garden play

tick…tick…Boom

Larson's rock monologue at the OFS

Review: We’ll Meet Again

Cherwell celebrates a new comedy that brings home the funny.

Review: Green Day

We review Green Day's long-awaited new album '21st Century Breakdown'

Review: Alphabetical Order

This newspaper-centred farce is just like OxStu, only funny.

Udder

A play about milk addiction

Interview: Ruth Padel

Cherwell talks to Ruth Padel, Oxford's new Professor of Poetry

Review: Childish Sophistication

Jonathan Sims looks at sculpted wooden toys by Ian McKay and silkscreen paintings by Catherine Rayner

Review: Awaydays

Cherwell aims a kick at Holden's offering

Top Five Films to…make you laugh irritatingly loudly

A comedic twinge for filmic fiends

Interview: Bombay Bicycle Club

Cherwell chats to the band at the Great Escape Festival

Uncooping diverse talents

Chickenshed: a company destroying social divides through drama

Fit Fiction: Shakespeare’s Men

Our contributor gets hot under the collar for Willy's dramatic creations

Review: This is India

A British gap-year student goes to India in this new production

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