Friday 1st May 2026

Culture

In sickness, health, and wrongdoing: ‘The Drama’ in review

CW: Gun violence. “What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?” is the driving question of Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama. The film centres around a couple whose otherwise perfect relationship is...

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s theatre: Defining the ill-defined

It has been 93 years since the first performance of Bertolt Brecht’s The Good...

Authenticity and the pop genre: Slayyyter’s ‘WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA’

Originality could be dead in pop music. The genre is so self-referential that it...

Why you should spring clean your bookshelf this Trinity

In the Northern Hemisphere, astronomers mark the beginning of spring on the date of...

15 years since…

We take a look at Leftism by Leftfield

Something to watch

Someone Who'll Watch Over Me impressed Vanessa Lehner

A Humorous Rhinoceros

Brave choices and absurdist comedy make this production entertaining as well as profound, says Alex du Sautoy

First night: The Magic Toyshop

Artful, exciting and ambitious. Not bad at all

Burns Night – a retrospective

A selection of photos from Burns Night festivities at Balliol.

Chronicling transformation in ink

Review: Building the New Ashmolean: Drawings and Prints by Weimin He

In search of loves once lost

Our books editor loses and finds himself in Orhan Pamuk's 'The Museum of Innocence'

No horsing around here

Equus is sinister, stressful and very successful

Thou Shalt not…

Dan le sac talks to Cherwell about his relationship with Scroobius Pip

Guilty Pleasures

Films or genres we know we shouldn't like, but do. This week, Flash Gordon

Review: Precious

A diamond in the rough

Feature: Apocalypse Now

The end is nigh, in the cinema at least, says Nicolas Pierce

Online Review: Nine

It's no masterpiece, but it's an awful lot of fun

Cherwell Photo Blog: Version 2.0

Check out our second week of fine Oxford photography.

Online Review: It’s Complicated

It's Complicated? Not really

Drama Briefing

All the thespy ins and outs this week

Off, you lendings

Looking ahead to 'Equus', our Stage Editor takes a voyeuristic peek at onstage nudity

What you’ve been missing: Polish art

As well as gold suits and spaceships, what else has the former Communist state to offer?

Review: A Children’s Book

Harry Potter would be infinitely preferable to this Booker-Prize nominee

Fool’s Gold

Our reviewer regrets dressing up for this interactive review

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