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Image Description: Cover image for A Midsummer Night’s Dream Normally, we’d expect to enter Shakespeare’s world of fairies and mischief in a very different way than through a radio play: perhaps standing around the Globe stage, or sitting in the rows of a college’s theatre. But strange times call for new formats for student drama […]
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Playing in 5th Week from Wednesday, November 8th, to Saturday, November 11th, at the Keble O’Reilly Theatre, The Lieutenant of Inishmore is Tightrope Productions’s full text performance of Martin McDonagh’s intensely fast-paced, brutally violent, and often staggeringly funny 2001 play about a series of increasingly escalating violence in the small Irish island of Inishmore after […]
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‘Welcome to the void’, it proclaimed, slurring its words and beckoning with an unsteady hand: Psychedelia first captivated British music in the 60s with vivid and immersive soundscapes, exploring the known and unknown alike. However, it’s a mistake to think of the psychedelic heyday as a bygone era, as ambition and evolution continue to characterise […]
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Of all the festivals set to grace fields across Britain this year, Wilderness (3rd-6th August) is arguably the most eclectic. Back for its sixth year, this four-day cultural extravaganza set in a protected woodland in the heart of the Cotswolds could be your Oxford “staycation” if you’re stuck in the Bod or lab over summer […]
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As a newcomer to acapella, I wasn’t sure what to expect from the all-female student ensemble In The Pink when I showed up to their rehearsal last night. What I found was a group of passionate, powerful ladies who were determined to give their audience a great time to remember. They were practising for their […]
Continue ReadingTransforming the respectable, well-carpeted Christ Church TV room into a post-French Revolution mental asylum is no easy task. Nevertheless, the cast of Marat/Sade, in the three intense scenes they showcased for me, achieved it to perfection. Featuring a chorus of clownish maniacs, the play is a disillusioned search for meaning in the ashen remains of […]
Continue ReadingSuspiria is outrageously dramatic and unapologetic for the fact. Hannah Kessler, who has adapted and directed this show, describes it as “Enid Blyton meets Saw.” An intriguing premise. I was lucky enough to catch a complete run through in rehearsals and, from what I saw, this show will be a breath of fresh air for […]
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Lucy Thraves, a recent Music graduate from Christ Church college, is one who understands how the pressures and prejudices of life at Oxford can affect students. While the mishandling of mental health issues among the student body is now something of an open secret, thanks to numerous brave articles published in The Tab, Cherwell, and […]
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Born in Tanzania but relocated to London at a tender age, Lubaina Himid is one of the pioneers of the British Black Art Movement. Growing up with her African inheritance on one hand and British culture on the other, Himid projects her mixed cultural background onto a variety of rich, distinctive images reflecting the clash […]
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Georgie Murphy speaks with Emmy Everest-Phillips, Choreographer of Illuminated and Director of Quicksandance. The show is being marketed as a dance show themed on light – can you tell me about this? Our last show (Ten Duets on a theme of Proximity, BT Studio ’15) used the word ‘proximity’ to create ten interconnected duets. It […]
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Well, at least it’s over now. Yes, 2016 is finally at an end and to put it diplomatically it’s been an interesting year, or to put it undiplomatically it’s been the silently screaming prologue to the apocalypse. And before you start swanning into the new year thinking that 2017’s going to be any better, let’s […]
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Albert Herring, Britten’s comic masterpiece, gleefully revels in an operatic middle ground. A whimsical plot that is set against a surprisingly complex score, Britten’s provincial chamber piece teases the lines between comedy and tragedy, sympathy and satire and the clashing authorities of nearly seventy years of critical opinion. Directors Peter Thickett and Frederick Waxman’s production […]
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As I walked into the midst of this rehearsal for Guys and Dolls the energy in the room was palpable. Everyone seemed to hold an intense enthusiasm for the show and I knew that I was about to see something special. Guys and Dolls is a big-time musical set in depression-era New York City, following […]
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The NBA season is nearly upon us and, whilst an offseason of huge turnover should make for one of the most interesting early seasons in recent years, there are some trends from both the offseason itself and what has happened so far in the preseason that could be extrapolated further. No team is likely to […]
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Copenhagen is a dense, and bizarre play. It centres around the reflection on the truth of a past conversation between two old friends, and major players in the nuclear science of World War II, Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. Set between ‘heaven and an atom’, it explores the complexities of truth in narrative, reality in […]
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The two writer-performers, JACK CHISNALL and ALEX FOX, walk into the room. INTERVIEWER If you’d just like to introduce yourselves and the show. JACK I’m Jack. ALEX […]
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Splendour is a play which delights in being enigmatic. Written by Abi Morgan, screenwriter of Suffragette and The Iron Lady, this claustrophobic character study manages to be disorientating, roundabout, and yet urgently compelling. Kathryn (Natalie Woodward), a photojournalist, is sent to the lavish house of a dictator and his wife, Micheline (Rosie Richards), in “a […]
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A Streetcar Named Desire written by Tennessee Williams is an iconic piece of 20th Century American theatre. Streetcar tells the story of Blanche Dubois who loses her home and is forced to leave Mississippi and goes to stay with her sister Stella and Stella’s husband Stanley Kowalski. Blanche is horrified by New Orleans, Stella’s living […]
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Most Playhouse productions are no laughing matter. Sitting comfortably at the top of the student theatre hierarchy, the Playhouse is a place for high production values and even higher brows. But in two weeks’ time the Oxford Revue, Oxford’s own band of student comics, will be taking to the stage in their annual show, The […]
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