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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,... Read More
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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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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’.... Read More
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... 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·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
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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.... Read More
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... Read More
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.... Read More
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