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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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·1st December 2021

‘Pathologic is Genius, And Here’s Why’ is Genius, And Here’s Why

Charley Archer
Image description: Various gaming controls scattered on a surface DANIIL DANKOVSKY’S FUN STEPPE VACATION WAS JUST THE TUTORIAL FOR ARTEMY...
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·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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Entertainment
·17th June 2017

‘Skylight’: Poignant, Realistic and Unexpectedly Funny

Jasmine White
The attention to detail in Hugh Tappin’s production of Skylight is remarkable.  Stepping into the Burton Taylor Studio felt like...
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CultureEntertainment
·19th December 2018

‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ reinvigorates the superhero genre

Jonathan Sands
For as long as I can remember, I have loved superhero movies. It is a love that has exhausted me...
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Entertainment
·18th November 2016

‘Tastefully Executed, Intimate and Brooding’ Summer and Smoke: A Review

Yoo Chun
This production of Tennessee William’s ‘Summer & Smoke’, the first in the UK in ten years, is tastefully executed and...
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Entertainment
·12th December 2017

‘The biggest, most challenging and most rewarding acting job I’ve had yet’: Kiran Landa on The National Theatre’s War Horse

Could you tell us a bit about yourself? I’m an actress from Nottingham, which is also where I trained as...
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Entertainment
·15th February 2018

‘The Cherry Orchard’ at Keble O’Reilly: a new lease of life

George Taylor
In this adaptation of Chekhov’s famous masterpiece, set to the backdrop of 1920s prohibition America, the narrative is enhanced by...
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Entertainment
·15th January 2017

‘The Fringed Curtains of Thine Eyes Advance’: Theatre, The Tempest, and Technological Advance

Ellen Hodgetts
Gregory Doran concluded his season as artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company with an innovative performance of ‘The Tempest’....
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Culture
·19th October 2019

‘The Outsiders’ by S.E.Hinton

Lea Hugo
It has been more than 50 years since the publication of S.E. Hinton’s first novel ‘The Outsiders’. Set in 1960s...
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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
·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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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...
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Entertainment
·24th February 2011

‘Special’ FX

by Tom Dunn Imagine your typical Hollywood action blockbuster of the past two years. Big budget, bigger explosions, and the...
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Entertainment
·19th October 2018

‘Tartuffe’ review: can Molière be funny in English?

Alice Blinkhorn
Comedy – perhaps more than any other genre – is cultural. Part of this comes from a shared comedic heritage....
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Entertainment
·25th October 2012

‘Tense, isn’t it?’ : Orphans at the O’Reilly

Isabel Sinagola
Written in 2009, Orphans is very current: it explores violence amongst the comfort of a domestic ‘John Lewis’ setting. As the audience...
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Entertainment
·8th February 2018

‘The C Bomb’, OUDS New Writing Festival: chlamydia has never been so funny

Martha Raymer
To say I went into The C Bomb – a comedy about chlamydia – with reservations would be an understatement....
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Culture
·9th April 2019

‘The Colour of Memory’: Pierre Bonnard at the Tate Modern

Katya Alban
In true Luddite fashion, I have tended to prefer art where I can see a clear and realistic depiction of...
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Culture
·19th October 2019

‘The Hare with Amber Eyes’ by Edmund de Waal

Catherine Jamieson
Image description: a netsuke cat I picked up this book expecting to learn a lot about netsuke, the 264 tiny...
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