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Formed in 1889, the Oxford Photographic Society is one of the oldest photographic groups in the UK. It is a not for profit organisation aiming to promote an active engagement with, and appreciation of, all forms of photography, regardless of the level of experience or area of interest of its attendees. From its humble home […]
Continue ReadingGregory Alan Isakov writes songs for travellers. He’s an indie folk singer-songwriter whose work depicts places and people you can visit with a single listen – which explains why people travelled from miles around to hear him weave his stories in London last night. The personal nature of much of his repertoire might have made […]
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Ragnar Lothbrok is dead. It happened just a few days before 2016 ended, in the latest episode of Vikings, a semi-historic drama loosely based on the medieval Icelandic Ragnars saga Loðbrókar (“saga of Ragnar the Hairy-breeches”). This episode is not the season finale, but it gives us the most shocking twist of plot: it kills […]
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The return of something resembling a legend, an institution, was heralded by the confidence of the classic opening and closing tracks, among them Stevie Wonder and David Bowie. This is Heavy Petting. We haven’t seen the Oxford Revue at the BT Studio in Hilary since 2014’s Family Values, before this reviewer’s time, and you can […]
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☆☆☆☆☆ Now I was never going to give Madonna anything less than a 5-star review. Even if she hadn’t turned up. But last night she proved that she was not only 5-stars, but the greatest living performer on earth. The over two-hour long extravaganza was a spectacle of such magnitude, evoking every possible emotion, that […]
Continue Reading‘Costume designing Chicago is amazing. We have a fantastic range of different outfits to show off; from burlesque show-girls to commonplace reporters to vaudeville outfits and the murderesses’ abstract apparel. We wanted to use costume not only to inject colour onto the set, but also to reimagine the 1920s scene. The musical, crossing […]
Continue ReadingFrankie Goodway goes all meta in her last column of Michaelmas term.
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