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Growing up in Cardiff, I became quite used to the sight of a television crew set up ready to film one of BBC Wales’s successful shows. I remember how natural it felt when one day after primary school my friends and I took a detour with our parents to see Doctor Who and his Tardis […]
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Earlier this month, two and a half million of us tuned in to watch the finale of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s highly acclaimed comedy Fleabag. The series, which followed the misadventures of its damaged but lovable antiheroine, played wonderfully by Waller-Bridge herself, had finally come to an end, and needless to say, many were sad to see […]
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Question and answer sessions with the cast of a play following its performance have become a common event in theatre these days. As someone who takes an avid interest in the behind the scenes aspect of plays I’ve attended quite a few, although I can safely say none have been quite like the fictitious version […]
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WARNING: Spoilers ahead. The night is always darkest before the dawn, and so it was with Game of Thrones’ third episode in the final season of the show. The episode opened with an eerie silence; it took almost fifteen minutes for the first proper line of dialogue to be spoken, cultivating a delicious sense of […]
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Change is the watchword for American politics right now, whether that means Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump. The 2018 midterms were no exception, with an unprecedented wave of diverse candidates crashing into Congress. In Knock Down The House, documentarian Rachel Lears tracks the primary campaigns of four such candidates running against the establishment. The candidates […]
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Back in 2008, a new era of cinema was dawning, with Marvel, having finally shaken off the shackles of mistakes thirty years in the making. The Howard the Duck film was one such mistake, as while enjoyable, it didn’t exactly set the box office alight. Another was the collapse of the comics industry in the […]
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Netflix’s chilling new documentary, The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann, shocks the viewer into questioning how far the seeds of corruption are sown beneath the visible eye. Negative reviews, which slate the documentary for providing a poorly padded out summary of the case, indicate that its intended purpose has been missed by many. Although it doesn’t […]
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‘Every bit of this is of enormous nostalgia for me’ Ivo Graham says. ‘At Oxford I read the OxStu, and I applied with my friend and roommate Matt to be music editors…we didn’t get it and we carried that bitterness with us.’ I assure him that since the OxStu let me loose on the music […]
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When a couple of years ago I heard that there had once been a musical focusing on the world’s most famous web-slinging superhero, I remember thinking it was a weird choice for a show subject, but then thought of it no further. This remained the case until I was contacted to review student writers Caleb […]
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How long have you been working on writing this play and how did it come about in the initial stages? I actually started writing Bandages in about 2016, when I was 17. My drama teacher had signed us up for the National Theatre New Views competition and a group of us would meet up occasionally […]
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Think back to your favorite childhood films–the ones you could always be caught watching in the living room, the ones you could quote by heart and see vividly in your mind before you went to sleep at night. Were they action-packed, fantastical, comedic? Why did you like them? Was there a point when you suddenly […]
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With the chills of British winter in full force, the cinema should have a prime position in your weekly schedule. Our love for the cinema has frequently translated into the worlds of movies themselves, with main characters attending the pictures during their journeys. The closed-off space has been utilised to create sinister, tense and foreboding […]
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As Oscar Wilde declared in his preface to The Picture of Dorian Grey, ‘All art is quite useless’. Wilde’s statement falls on deaf ears in Dan Gilroy’s tale of pretentious art dealers and material greed. After taking paintings from the apartment of a deceased artist, Josephina (Zawe Ashton) is cajoled by boss Rhodora (Rene Russo) […]
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In September 1980, 19-year-old Robert Shafran arrived for his freshman year at Sullivan County Community College in upstate New York. Immediately, he was greeted by classmates all around campus: “Hey, Eddy!” they said. “Glad to see you back, Eddy!” Shafran was baffled. “I’m like, my name’s not Eddy. I don’t know what you’re talking about.” […]
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CAKE Night, a brand new scratch night organised by Oxford students Anushka Chakravarti and Bea Udale-Smith, was an event that exuded cheerfulness and energy. Cocooned in Summertown’s North Wall Arts Centre, a rather miserable walk in the rain was well worth the intimate, relaxed geniality and entertainment. The sketch-show setup made for delightfully easy viewing […]
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When I first saw the trailer for the four-part Netflix original, Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, one sentence put me off. In Bundy’s own voice, “I am looking for an opportunity to tell the story as best I can” makes it ominously clear that this is Ted’s moment, his last chance at […]
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This should have been an excellent production. The sets were wonderful, the costumes spectacular and the cast gave it their all. But we just couldn’t hear them for most of the performance. In the first scene, I hoped it was a glitch that would be fixed but when the problem persisted into the second half, […]
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‘Fame’, conceived and developed by David de Silva and directed by Nick Winston, is on for four nights at the New Theatre on George Street. If musical theatre at its most explosive is your thing, definitely go: the show is a hyperactive extravaganza of dance and song, bounding through two hours of dynamic performance with […]
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Made in Dagenham is alive and, most prominently, relevant. At a time when theatre seems to lean towards the escapist, this musical provides us with a (true) story about the issue of equal, or unequal, pay. Everything in this production is well thought out. The musical itself, set in 1968 and concerning the troubling pay […]
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