Friday 12th June 2026

Culture

‘Our House’ in the middle of Beaumont Street

'Our House' ultimately becomes not just a story about crime or morality, but about the vulnerability of growing up and the frightening uncertainty of trying to decide who you are.

Is the dancefloor really dead?

Tongue-in-cheek as it may be, Charli xcx’s ‘Rock Music’ speaks to the structural issues actively decimating nightlife across the world, even if her motivations may be more aesthetic than political.

Testing my patients: ‘The Effect’ at the BT Studio reviewed

Necessarily navigating the difference between ‘side effects’ and reality, the play strikes a fine balance between what one thinks and what one feels.

‘The Harrowing of Hell.26’ reviewed

Fundamentally, The Harrowing of Hell.26 is a finely acted, well-produced play which was enjoyable enough to watch, but its conclusion is unsatisfying.

Top Five Films to…make you laugh irritatingly loudly

A comedic twinge for filmic fiends

Interview: Bombay Bicycle Club

Cherwell chats to the band at the Great Escape Festival

Uncooping diverse talents

Chickenshed: a company destroying social divides through drama

Fit Fiction: Shakespeare’s Men

Our contributor gets hot under the collar for Willy's dramatic creations

Review: This is India

A British gap-year student goes to India in this new production

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

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