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  • 11th December 2023
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·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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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·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...
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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...
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·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...
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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....
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·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,...
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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...
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·24th February 2018

‘Hedda’ Review: “Bold and innovative”

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Hedda, Lucy Kirkwood’s bold adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, is a powerful and defiant representation of modern feminism, and...
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·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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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