Sunday 3rd May 2026

Culture

All in a day’s Work.txt: Metatheatre’s extremes

For £5 (and a 42p booking fee), I found myself in a room full of theatre kids who had finally attained that cherished jewel of our modern world: a...

What I learned from Tracey Emin about regeneration

CW: Abortion I left the Tate Modern’s latest headline show, Tracey Emin: A Second Life,...

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...

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...

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

Review: Wolverine

We cast a critical eye over the origin story of the world's favourite adamantium-skeletoned hero

Cancer Bats Play Live in Oxford

Daniel Clarke braves the April showers to check out SSS, The Plight and Cancer Bats

Top Five Films To: Celebrate Your Inner Film Geek

Joe Brennan looks at his top five cult films

Top Five Films To: Get You In The Mood

Sophia Satchell-Baeza looks at the top five vampire flicks

King Lear

Harry Phillips reviews an "18-rated Shakesperean soap opera"

Interview: Serj Tankian

Beatrice Male speaks to Serj Tankian about politics, activism and the power of love songs

The grass is always greener…

Harry Phillips gets misty eyed extolling the virtues of theatre out on the lawns this summer.

In Trinity and Beyond

Cherwell gives you a run through of what to look forward to this term

Interview: MC Lars

Dan Gallacher talks to MC Lars about Oxford, politics and Donnie Darko

Interview: Alain de Botton

Henry Naish speaks to Alain de Botton about life, work, and erotic offices

Interview: Ian McEwen

Ravin Thambapillai speaks to Ian McEwan, winner of the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence

Endnotes: Unwrapping Books

We find Endnotes a bit past its shelf-life but a man eating a book made the trip worth it

Review: Last Chance Harvey

Sophia Satchell-Baeza decides that this grown-up romantic comedy deserves to be given a real chance

Let The Right One In

Tomas Alfredson's Swedish vampire film, 'Let The Right One In,' proves to be a chilling masterpiece

Review: The Age of Stupid

Dominic Rowland is inspired to act by The Age Of Stupid

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