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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...
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Hertford Archaeology Open Day: Medieval Oxford laid bare
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The Blue Trail: Reviewed
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Review: Sketches from a Curious Mind
In 1962, Edward Anthony wrote: “Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a...
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A show from the Oxford Imps based on audience suggestions and home-brewed sound effects is audacious-and brilliant
S1l3nce
Our reviewer won't give too much away about this Derren Brownish magic show-except that it left her amazed.
The Truth
Four stars for this Discworld production, the latest in an Oxford tradition
Renegade
The latest offering from the Oxford Revue
The Ideas Man by Shed Simove
A book by the inventor of 'Clitoris Allsorts' fails to titillate or raise titters
Raphaël Zarka – Geometry Improved
We find French 'found forms' fail fundementally
The Class
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Buried Child
Sam Shepard's pretentious, flawed play gets better acting than it deserves
Confusions
Dialogue isn't the only thing that's funny about this Aykbourn play
All the World’s a Stage: Shakespeare improved
How Shakespeare's admirers thought his work needed a few rewrites
The Recruiting Officer
This eighteenth-century play is entertaining, but the depth of characterisation got lost in the space of the Oxford Playhouse
A Clockwork Orange
Good acting in the central role can't redeem a confused adaption of Anthony Burgess's novel
Napoleon, complex?
Michael Docherty find The Shadow of Enlightenment's exciting style cannot mask its dull substance.
Viva Glasvegas!
Joseph Weir heads to the O2 Academy to talk to Glasvegas at this year's NME Tour
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