Review: Tamlane
Caitlin MacMillan reviews the ballet of Tamlane, on at Wadham’s Moser Theatre this week.
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Will it be alright on the Night?
Matt Thomson-Ryder reviews Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch, on this week at Balliol’s Michael Pilch Studio.
Continue ReadingThe White Rose: Sophie Scholl
Stephanie Vizard reviews a new play about Sophie Scholl, a leading figure in the German anti-Nazi White Rose group.
Continue ReadingPeter Panning Out Well
Alex Harvey reviews an impressive production of Peter Pan in Worcester JCR.
Continue ReadingThespionage – week 6
I say, I say, I say, my Oxford theatre scene has no nose. How does it smell? Like a terrible dog. I think. Wait, that’s not right, let me, um… What were we doing again? Yes, coming to you from the depths of sleep deprivation and possibly a pit of some sort, it’s Thespionage! Yaaay! […]
Continue ReadingAll you need is love. And money.
Tim Bano reviews Love and Money, on at Keble’s O’Reilly Theatre from Wednesday to Saturday
Continue ReadingA lesson worth learning
Steph Vizard reviews “The Lesson”
Continue ReadingImps around for another year yet
Matthew Ryder reviews the first Imps show of the year.
Continue ReadingThespionage – 1st Week
Well, children, I hope you’re all well and truly recovered from the week of glowstick- and naivete-fuelled debauchery that was freshers’ week. I jest, of course, and send my commiserations to the freshers, waking up with their first hangover after passing out in their second half of cider. Still, now that the kiddies are out […]
Continue ReadingHas technology killed our theatre stars?
Timothy Bano exposes the threat posed to the theatre by technology and the rise of the machines
Continue ReadingInterview: Rupert Goold
Fabienne Cheung talks to Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and director of Enron: The Musical about what he really thinks of student thespians
Continue ReadingThespionage: Week 0
What’s that I smell on the wind? Is that the succulent scent of tasty freshers? I think it is! So, you’re a scared new face, wanting to make your mark and see your name in lights, you want to hit the big time and bathe in other similar clichés. Where do you start? Firstly, the […]
Continue ReadingExeter mourns loss of student
A visiting student at Exeter was killed in an avalanche in Switzerland on Sunday.
Continue ReadingHertford protests bar privatisation
More than 100 Hertford students staged a day-long campaign against the privatisation of their College bar on Tuesday.
Continue ReadingNews in brief – Week 5
Ashmolean wins The Ashmolean Museum this week won its third award in a month, after its £61 million extension won one of 102 awards from the Royal Institute of British Architects. The Ashmolean had announced on May 18th that it won £29,000 from the Art Fund, and been shortlisted for another £100,000 Art Fund award. […]
Continue ReadingStudent’s academic fraud exposed
Adam Wheeler, a Harvard English student, was exposed as a fraudster in his application for a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford
Continue Reading2010 vision: Oxford’s 3% pledge
Environmentalists have given mixed reactions to a new climate change pledge by the University. The University has signed on to the 10:10 Campaign, which aims to persuade individuals and organisations to reduce their carbon emissions by at least ten percent before the end of 2010. But rather than sign up to the full target, the […]
Continue ReadingOxford’s Didcot protestor fined
After scaling a power station in an environmental protest, Carl Van Tonder, a chemistry student from St Anne’s, was handed an 18-month conditional discharge in court in Thursday and forced to pay £500 costs as punishment.
Continue ReadingPoetiy race is on
Eleven candidates are in the running for Professor of Poetry after nominations closed last Wednesday, including Oxford alumnus Geoffrey Hill, slam poet Steve Larkin and “poetician” Michael George Gibson.
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