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Author: Matt Thomson-Ryder

Review: Tamlane

23rd November 2010Matt Thomson-Ryder

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?

22nd November 201022nd November 2010Matt Thomson-Ryder

Matt Thomson-Ryder reviews Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch, on this week at Balliol’s Michael Pilch Studio.

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The White Rose: Sophie Scholl

22nd November 201022nd November 2010Matt Thomson-Ryder

Stephanie Vizard reviews a new play about Sophie Scholl, a leading figure in the German anti-Nazi White Rose group.

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Peter Panning Out Well

22nd November 2010Matt Thomson-Ryder

Alex Harvey reviews an impressive production of Peter Pan in Worcester JCR.

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Thespionage – week 6

22nd November 2010Matt Thomson-Ryder

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! […]

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All you need is love. And money.

22nd November 2010Matt Thomson-Ryder

Tim Bano reviews Love and Money, on at Keble’s O’Reilly Theatre from Wednesday to Saturday

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A lesson worth learning

17th October 2010Matt Thomson-Ryder

Steph Vizard reviews “The Lesson”

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Imps around for another year yet

17th October 201017th October 2010Matt Thomson-Ryder

Matthew Ryder reviews the first Imps show of the year.

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Thespionage – 1st Week

15th October 201017th October 2010Matt Thomson-Ryder

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 […]

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Has technology killed our theatre stars?

7th October 2010Matt Thomson-Ryder

Timothy Bano exposes the threat posed to the theatre by technology and the rise of the machines

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Interview: Rupert Goold

7th October 20107th October 2010Matt Thomson-Ryder

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

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Thespionage: Week 0

7th October 20107th October 2010Matt Thomson-Ryder

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 […]

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Exeter mourns loss of student

10th June 201018th July 2010Matt Thomson-Ryder

A visiting student at Exeter was killed in an avalanche in Switzerland on Sunday.

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Hertford protests bar privatisation

3rd June 201019th July 2010Matt Thomson-Ryder

More than 100 Hertford students staged a day-long campaign against the privatisation of their College bar on Tuesday.

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News in brief – Week 5

27th May 201017th August 2010Matt Thomson-Ryder

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. […]

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Student’s academic fraud exposed

22nd May 201029th July 2010Matt Thomson-Ryder

Adam Wheeler, a Harvard English student, was exposed as a fraudster in his application for a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford

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2010 vision: Oxford’s 3% pledge

20th May 201024th August 2010Matt Thomson-Ryder

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 […]

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Oxford’s Didcot protestor fined

20th May 201023rd August 2010Matt Thomson-Ryder

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.

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Poetiy race is on

13th May 20103rd September 2010Matt Thomson-Ryder

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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