Entertainment·12th February 2022‘Cow’ Review: An Ode to Consciousness, Empathy, and Story-telling Hannah Williams Image Description: Photograph of a cow. Director Andrea Arnold is known for casting people with no prior screen experience in...Read More
Entertainment·14th December 2013‘Desolation of Smaug’ Dwarfs Its Predecessor Lily Adams Two hours and forty-one minutes of screen-time. Fifteen main characters. One enormous dragon. Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of...Read More
Entertainment·8th February 2017‘Eloquence in Art’: Raphael’s Drawings in the Ashmolean’s Print Room Holly Kelsey Walking into the print room in the Ashmolean I was first struck by the room itself – the friendly, musty...Read More
Entertainment·2nd June 2017‘Garden’: A Cerebral Piece With A Very Human Heart Once again, Jack Bradfield and Poltergeist Theatre prove that they’re cleverer than us. In the nicest possible way. Garden, Bradfield’s...Read More
Entertainment·15th November 2015‘I love making strangers laugh’: An Interview with the Oxford Imps William Shaw Talking to the Oxford Imps’ producer, Harry Houseman, I can’t help feeling I’m getting a private performance. Though quieter and...Read More
Culture·14th June 2019‘It smashes through the fourth wall and begs you to help’: Hustlers at the BT Maudie Cooper The dishevelled set promises exactly what the voyeur is here to see: drugs; sex; cigarettes; fishnets and feistiness. There will...Read More
Entertainment·30th December 2014‘Made in Dagenham’ offers feminism, floral 60s pastels and fun Amelia Brown “It ain’t about the money. It’s equality,” says Connie, a disillusioned union representative, paving the way for equal pay for...Read More
Entertainment·5th March 2017‘Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was’ by Sjón Minjie Su October 1918, as the war is still raging in Europe, Katla, one of Iceland’s largest volcanoes, paints the sky with...Read More
Entertainment·16th August 2014‘Replay’ goes to Edinburgh Amelia Brown ‘Replay’ is a new play written by Alex Wilson which premiered in Oxford earlier this year. Now playing at the...Read More
Entertainment·8th February 2018‘Shock Therapy’, OUDS New Writing Festival: thought-provoking yet hopeful Matthew Murphy Shock Therapy took the audience through various ways of understanding our past, our present and our future, with all three...Read More
Entertainment·27th April 2017‘Dear Brutus’: An Interview The story of how Alexia Kirk, director of Dear Brutus, found the play is “one which no one ever believes....Read More
Entertainment·17th August 2012‘DruidMurphy’ hits the playhouse Maeve Scullion Following the success of DruidSynge in 2005, Druid Theatre Company pays homage to Ireland’s current unofficial playwright laureate, Tom Murphy,...Read More
Culture·6th June 2020‘Exciting Times’ by Naoise Dolan is fiercely aware of class, money, race, and what is right Isabel Fleming Image description: Naoise Dolan holding her book ‘Exciting times’ Search Naoise Dolan, and Sally Rooney’s name is mentioned almost as...Read More
Entertainment·24th February 2018‘Hedda’ Review: “Bold and innovative” Ox Stu Stage Hedda, Lucy Kirkwood’s bold adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, is a powerful and defiant representation of modern feminism, and...Read More
Entertainment·11th May 2017‘I, Marcus’: A Review Julian Sunley After a stunted night out, five teenagers wait indefinitely for a train. With nothing to do but sit on the...Read More
Entertainment·1st May 2017‘Little Shop of Horrors’: A Preview Charles Pidgeon As I watched the cast of Little Shop of Horrors perform at a tech rehearsal, I was nostalgic for a...Read More
Entertainment·5th December 2016‘Moments of Brilliance’ Emerge in The Pillowman: A Review Ellen Hodgetts After an enthusing experience at the preview for ‘The Pillowman’ on Sunday, I was excited to see whether the...Read More
Entertainment·1st December 2016‘Naked Is the Realm’ is an Unprecedented Play: A Review Betty Yang Betty Yang finds Naked Is the Realm to be a four star performance I have never seen a play like...Read More
Entertainment·3rd June 2019‘Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic’: reviewing the eclectic latest release from Simon Armitage Hannah Bradburn ‘This morning I’m bored shitless by poetry’ declares Simon Armitage in one of the poems compiled in his latest collection,...Read More