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  • 15th August 2022
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    In Conversation with Author and Journalist Elizabeth Day

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    New assault from nature: Hepatitis in children

    Desalination on demand

    Talking Fungi

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    A photograph of a German cockroach.

    Changing cockroach behaviours: the implications of human action

    Agatha Gutierrez Echenique shares some pictures of his sock knitting for his sustainable hobby feature.

    Sustainable Hobby Feature: Knitting

    A person searching through a vintage clothing rack –  perhaps in search of formal clothes!

    A Definitive Guide to Second Hand Formal Clothes

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Entertainment
·8th April 2015

Shakespeare, gender and unorthodox rehearsals with Ed Hall

Amelia Brown
Director Edward Hall is best known for creating the all-male theatre company, Propeller, who perform Shakespeare plays, re-imagined to relate...
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Entertainment
·8th April 2015

Playwright Lucy Prebble: “Fall in love and dream and doubt”

Lucy Prebble’s show Enron premiered at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2009, and later transferred to The Royal Court due...
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Entertainment
·8th April 2015

Why do we do it? The purpose of student theatre

Megan Thomas
Any poor soul who has tried to coordinate their cast and crew’s timetables will, through the haze of google docs...
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Entertainment
·12th March 2015

Review: The Doctor in Spite of Himself

William Shaw
✮✮✮ An uproarious and self-aware comedy, The Doctor in Spite of Himself puts together an admirable performance, despite the difficult...
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Entertainment
·11th March 2015

Reviewing the Oxford Italian Play: Serata Futurista

William Shaw
✮✮✮ The Futurists, it should be noted, were by and large a nasty piece of work. An artistic movement born...
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Entertainment
·8th March 2015

Review: The Importance of Being Earnest

Sian Iles
“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.” And, indeed, St Hilda’s Drama Society brought style...
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Entertainment
·6th March 2015

The Coronation of Poppea promises to be “beautifully crafted”

Caitlin Jauncey
“The music.” Producer Katie Jeffries-Harris’ immediate answer to the question of why choose The Coronation of Poppea may be short...
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Entertainment
·5th March 2015

Review: As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams

Emily Holman and Lucy Oliver
Emily Holman ✮✮✮ Adaptations are no easy feat. When the text in question is being adapted for stage, rather than the...
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Entertainment
·5th March 2015

Review: The Architect

OxStu Stage
The main problem with The Architect is the play. Ostensibly, it focuses on the life of the has-been architect, Leo...
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Entertainment
·4th March 2015

Reviewing The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs

William Aslet
✮✮✮✮ Dealing with a plethora of present-day issues in an Edwardian context is The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs, this...
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Entertainment
·4th March 2015

Iolanthe is Magic

Phillip Babcock
Preposterous, outlandish, and ludicrously absurd, Oxford University’s Gilbert & Sullivan Society’s production of the comic opera Iolanthe is a hilariously...
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Entertainment
·2nd March 2015

College Comedy Nights- Bringing stand-up to Oxford

Improvisation comes from the Oxford Imps, sketch shows come from the Revue, but where is Oxford’s stand-up comedy scene? To...
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Entertainment
·2nd March 2015

Preview: ‘As I Crossed A Bridge of Dreams’- Crossing into a fairytale

“Think of all the tales you’re going to discover…” Arriving on the B-T stage this 7th week is ‘As I...
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Entertainment
·27th February 2015

Review: King Lear

James Watt
“When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools”, declares the Fool, garbed...
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Entertainment
·26th February 2015

Review: The Duchess of Malfi – All Hail the Malfi Mail!

Emily Holman
✮✮✮ Who is responsible for murder? It’s unclear if this was the foremost question in John Webster’s heart as he penned...
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Entertainment
·25th February 2015

Choreographer Wayne McGregor on Dance and Neuroscience

Ahead of Atomos coming to Oxford next month we spoke to Wayne McGregor, the choreographer behind it. Though just 44,...
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Entertainment
·25th February 2015

Review: Captain Amazing

William Shaw
✮✮✮ Captain Amazing is perhaps best described as Alan Moore by way of Mark Evans. Touching, clever and frequently hilarious,...
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Entertainment
·22nd February 2015

Review: Noises Off

James Waddell
✮✮✮✮ Too often, 5th week can become a graveyard shift for Oxford’s events circuit. The B-T struggles to shift whatever’s...
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Entertainment
·19th February 2015

Review: The Crucible

Paige Tortorelli
✮✮✮✮½ Lily Slater’s rendition of Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, expounds upon the anxiety, fears, and grief permeating Salem, Massachusetts...
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