Wednesday 19th November 2025

Culture

‘Controversial but compelling’: ‘Women Beware Women’ Reviewed

CW: Sexual assault The Michael Pilch Studio might just have been the perfect venue for Women Beware Women. Intimate and beguiling, the audience were made to feel almost as naked...

GCSE drama nostalgia: ‘The Detention’ review

The Detention provided its fair share of giggles, but whether that was a result...

The power of the playlist

"These ten precious songs ... will become a time capsule"

Ceilings, wives, and love letters to the city: The Pre Raphaelites in Oxford

It was in 1857, not long after the construction of the Oxford Union, that...

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

See no evil, hear no evil

Three Monkeys, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's most recent cinematic venture, is imbued with a mesmeric brilliance from start to finish.

American prospects?

Mark Greif, co-editor of cutting-edge literary journal n+1, talks about diverging intellectual spheres and the role of the intellectual in today's society

Anyone for T?

William Kelleher talks to Toddla T at Fuse Night

4.48 Psychosis

An Expressionist take on Sarah Kane's last play misses the point

Serving It Up

Sarah Nerger was impressed by a performance of a student-written play

Taking Control

Cherwell examines the role of the director

Don Carlos

We weigh in on the upcoming adaptation of the Friedrich von Schiller classic

Liberal Facism

Jonah Goldberg's new book Liberal Facism sounds like it ought to be an interesting, though not entirely revolutionary, proposition

Odds and Sods and Death and Dogs

Paul Freestone's tender and humorous photographs find beauty in the mundane and subtly blur the boundaries between the human and the natural

Doubt

John Patrick Shanley's film adaptation of Doubt arguably equals, and quite possibly surpasses, the play upon which it is based

Black Comedy

This production of Black Comedy illuminates Shaffer's script

The Entertainer

John Osborne's historic follow-up to ‘Look Back In Anger' charts the life of Archie Rice, son of smash-hit music hall comedian Billy Rice

Stryding to success

Joseph Weir discovers the story of a DIY label and Tinchy Stryder's rise to stardom

Behind the Scenes: The Line-Producer

In the second edition of Behind the Scenes, Andrew Litvin tells us something about line-production

These Dark Materials

An adaptation of His Dark Materials hits Oxford next term, and Cherwell went backstage to see it being created.

Coolness In The Face Of Fire

Vid Simoniti talks to a Merton student who balances studying philosophy with flaming poi

The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be

The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be is fun, but never quite brilliant

Squirrels

Good acting and directing can't get David Mamet's flawed Squirrels to the top of the tree

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