Saturday 29th November 2025

Culture

‘Everything is constantly emotion’: An interview with the cast and crew of ‘Doctor Faustus’ 

Seabass Theatre has carved out a niche for itself producing original takes on canonical texts, most memorably last year’s plant-inspired Hamlet staged at the former Music Faculty. When discussing...
Culture Lara Machado -

Between performance and reality: ‘To What End?’ reviewed

To What End is a new meta-theatrical, absurdist play written by Billy Skiggs and...
Culture Beth Riding -

The day she died

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The Source Nat Conboy -

Death’s Lament

Please, I have done what you asked.  I burned it all for her. I wrench the...
The Source Tilly White -
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All’s Well That Ends Well

Shakespeare's Blackest Comedy in Magdalen College Gardens

Interview: Holy Fuck

what the Fuck is up with this music scene?

Interview: The Sunshine Underground

we bring a little bit of Sunshine into your life

Review: The Pitchfork Disney

Almost as good as that bit in Bambie where his mother dies

Review: As You Desire Me

Not a play for theatre-goers desiring anything substantial

Review: Angels and Demons

Is the new Dan Brown flick hellish, or simply divine?

Review: Synecdoche, New York

Pericles Megas takes us through Charlie Kaufman's latest offering

Designs for a Happy Home by Matthew Reynolds

Will Small reviews a novel about interior design, not just upholstery

Every Man out of his Humour

Edwin Black reviews a Ben Jonson comedy

Off the Wall and into the theatre

Harry Phillips visits the exciting North Wall Arts Centre in Summertown

Review: The Little Mermaid

Cherwell takes a dip into a dark adaptation of the classic.

Review: Twelfth Night

Harry Phillips looks ahead to 'Shakespeare week' with a review of the classic cross-dressing comedy.

Top Five Films To: Make You Not Want To Have Kids

Natalie Dibsdale looks at her top films to keep broodiness at bay

Coraline

Henry Selick's new stop motion fairytale provides a feast for the eyes

Simply Spock On

TrekSoc take a look at JJ Abrams's new take on the Star Trek canon

Preview: The Servant’s Ball Blitzkrieg

Our reviewer finds much to praise in the demotic magic and postcolonial absurdism of this original production

Review: Much Ado about Nothing

Shakespeare merges with shopping trolleys in this new, experimental production.

Review: HMS Pinafore

An operatic exposé of life in the Navy

Review: His Dark Materials

The long awaited arrival of the stage version of Pullman's masterpiece proves a delight

Review: Betrayal

We review the latest production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal
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