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The dishevelled set promises exactly what the voyeur is here to see: drugs; sex; cigarettes; fishnets and feistiness. There will be no taboo left unshaken here. The steady rhythm seeps onto the stage and the hustlers are infected, masterfully delivering their dance of life in the 1980s streets of LA. A captivating introduction into the […]
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It was a Saturday morning when I found myself sat waiting to preview The Oxford Revue’s Playhouse show playing on Monday 17th June. As I sat waiting for a fellow reviewer, I was told I would be privy to seeing a few sketches from the show. As I waited, all the comics were sat around […]
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Hoof and Horn Productions are excited to announce that they are putting on the visceral and compelling play Hustlers from the 11th-15th of June (7th Week) at the BT Studio before their run at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. They can also reveal that they’ve been confirmed for one of the biggest stages at this […]
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“I like to dance when I am cutting into the woodblock images of dancers. I feel that I am doing each gesture myself.” Those are the words of Naoko Matsubara, a Japanese born, Canadian based printmaker. Her 1975 work ‘Maiko’, a colour woodblock print on paper, captures the graceful movement of a trainee geisha as […]
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Oxford University’s world-renowned Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM) have been awarded 11 PhD studentships through the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) programme. The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) offer cultural and heritage institutions the opportunity of hosting doctoral researchers based at UK universities. The scheme […]
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The musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is written by Tom MacRae, based on the real-life story of Jamie Campbell; a 16-year old lad from a Sheffield council estate who wants to follow his dream of becoming a drag queen, despite the bullies, homophobia, and disapproving, estranged father. With the support of his family, friends, and […]
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I went to see ‘As You Like It’ at Stratford-upon-Avon a couple of weeks ago, which is running at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until the end of August. Unfortunately the play is far from Shakespeare as I like it. The problem lies in the production’s sheer business – there is a glitter-sprinkling, spangle-vested jester, a […]
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Sizzling with chaotic, hilarious energy, ‘The Reunion’ promises to be an electric piece of theatre. Written, directed and masterminded by Tommy Hurst and Bernard Visser, the premise surrounds two funeral directors (satirically named Hearse and Cloak) attempting to piece together the story behind the death of a recently deceased big shot criminal Sebastian Coxcomb. This […]
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If you happened to watch the somewhat divisive Venom last year, you might have enjoyed Tom Hardy’s performance. You might not have enjoyed its feeble screenplay. Either way, one thing you may not have remembered is when Hardy’s Eddie Brock, shortly after hearing the voice of the parasite, is told in his own voice that […]
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When asked to review this evening of jazz from the Red Brick Jazz Sextet, and comedy from The Oxford Revue, I had to make a rather odd confession to the editors. “But I’m performing,” I explained awkwardly. Thankfully, performing a stand-up set amongst numerous others featured in an evening of mostly musical entertainment doesn’t actually […]
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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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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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Overlooking Doha’s sea front, The National Museum of Qatar appears as a mirage in the desert. The highly anticipated museum, designed by Atelier Jean Nouvel, held its glamorous opening ceremony on March 27th 2019. The building is an avant-garde structure made with 539 intersecting vertical and horizontal disks of multiple diameters, curvatures, and inclinations. Nouvel’s […]
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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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Leaving the Jeff Koons exhibition at the Ashmolean, I was left with the mixed feelings of gladness and repulsion; gladness that I had seen an exhibition that is intriguingly complex, if only for how problematic it is, and disgust that was born of the realisation that his work was both artistically unoriginal and sexually regressive. […]
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Part of me loves going to lectures that I know are not 100% relevant for my papers. Perhaps the lecturer will talk about an author I’m not going to be examined on in finals, allowing me a few guilt free minutes of ecstatic freedom to scribble dresses. I don’t sit too close to the front, […]
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The ‘science’ component of the social sciences is often the subject of jokes, with the idea that disciplines included in this label are not ‘real’ or ‘hard’ sciences. Their defenders are often quick to argue, however, that the quantitative tradition is a prevalent one among disciplines such as economics, demography, or political science. In my […]
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