Oxford Kite Festival to feature artists and thinkers such as Grace Jones, Richard Dawkins, and Ai Weiwei
Entertainment·31st October 2013A Mad World, a masterpiece, and a manipulation Rebecca Henderson Being an English student, I’d say I’m pretty good with finding many (many, many) ways to express the same thing.... Read More
Entertainment·31st October 2013Easy Access: Chatting to Claire Dowie Charlotte Goodman Claire Dowie has beef with theatre. A veteran director, writer and performer, she is renowned for her gut-punching plays: funny,... Read More
Entertainment·17th October 2013Belarus Free Theatre Richard Foord Belarus is the last dictatorship in Europe. Under president Lukashenko’s regime, freedom of the press is severely restricted, media organisations... Read More
Entertainment·17th October 2013Sex, violence and metatheatre: how musicals provoke us Madeleine Chalmers Musical theatre: a liberal serving of schmaltz with a side-order of corn and a generous portion of cheese. Musical theatre:... Read More
Entertainment·24th May 2013An interview with Natalie York, director of Philoctetes OxStu Stage Tell us about the play. It’s a Greek tragedy which surrounds three central characters: Ulysses, Neoptolemus – the son... Read More
Entertainment·24th May 2013Getting Bard from the pub Matilda Rhode To start with: why are you holding these play-readings? Mainly to raise the profile of these plays in Oxford. There... Read More
Entertainment·24th May 2013Verging on the edge of success Eleanor Sharman High tragedy is a brave route for student drama to pursue. High comedy is the same. This new English dramatisation... Read More
Entertainment·24th May 2013Die Frau is to die for Hyunjip Kim Any play produced in Oxford that is not in English gets the disadvantage of doubt. And not entirely unfairly. The... Read More
Entertainment·2nd May 2013Ed Barr-Sim’s Frost/Nixon rehearsal diary: Part Two – I love rehearsals in the springtime Ed Barr-Sim So, it’s been almost two weeks of full rehearsals and there’re another three weeks to go. There’s things to look... Read More
Entertainment·2nd May 2013Knot taking our breath away Jessica Adamson You might know the Old Fire Station as that modern-looking contemporary art gallery in Gloucester Green, where you can... Read More
Entertainment·2nd May 2013Preview: The Glass Menagerie Sonia Morland The Glass Menagerie is one of Tennessee Williams’s best-known plays. From the few scenes this preview offered, it seems that... Read More
Entertainment·2nd May 2013Preview: The Trial Julia Lewis Hypnotist Theatre’s production of The Trial will be short on costumes, props, scenery, and space—and that’s all to good effect.... Read More
Entertainment·2nd May 2013Preview: 1984 Hyunjip Kim This production could be better named 1984 B.C. It is more visceral than clinical, more heart-washed than brain-washed: Big Brother... Read More