Sunday 30th November 2025

Culture

Illuminating American conservatism: William F Buckley’s biography, reviewed

The ornate, Latinate vocabulary. The debates peppered with witticisms. The patrician air, the untraceable accent, the playful glint in his eyes.  William F. Buckley was arguably the most influential American...
Books Gavriella Epstein-Lightman -

The Magdalene Songs: Giving a singing voice to victims

★★★★★ Trigger warning: abuse Modern slavery, abuse, and human rights violations are not something you would...
Culture Natalie Conboy -

‘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...
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 -
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The Just Assassins

Sensitive acting adds to the force of a Camus adaptation

An Independent Mind comes to Oxford

A must-see documentary about freedom-of-speech to be shown at the Phoenix this Monday evening

Frown Line on the Horizon

We calls for cribbage and croquet for pop's not-so-great survivors

Straight to Nairobi

Cherwell superstar Josh Lobes has found fame in foreign parts.

1968 and I’m Hitchhiking Through Europe by Joe Mack

We suggest you use this for kindling when you're hitch-hiking rather than attempt to read it

Invisible by Frank Egerton

We review a book with the least interesting cover art ever

Freedom of Speech: where are the boundaries?

'Write whatever you like', many people say. It's not that simple...

Watching ourselves

Alice Salvage looks at why people go to the theatre, and what its future is likely to be

Are You Sitting Comfortably?

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

Rees Arnott-Davies finds Palme d'Or winning French drama a lesson in expert film-making

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
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