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Why does everyone like East of Eden so much?

Spoilers Ahead!! East of Eden is a special book in many ways. It is beautiful, for one, and loving too. John Steinbeck dedicated it to his editor and long-term friend...
Books Abigail Riley -

The return of the surreal 

Mythical, dreamlike, phantasmagorical, and absurd: Surrealism, which took the art world by storm in...
Art Sylvie Quick -

Must theatre be so dire? Thoughts on the “unworthy scaffold”

If 'art est celare artem' (true art is to conceal art), then theatre is pretty poor art. You ain't fooling me into thinking that's a storm.
Culture Saul Grenfell -

Seasonal reads: On childhood hobbies, growing up, and guilt

Reconnecting with reading is something many people tend to do on a summer holiday,...
Books Elizabeth Gammaidoni -
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After-show parties

Jealousy, bitchiness, sexual tension and drinking games: suddenly it all comes out

Learning Lines

What happens when you think you can learn lines the night before the dress rehearsal.

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
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