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Review: Copenhagen

Mark Barclay tackles quantum theory and self referentiality at the Pilch

Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – OUDS Summer Tour

Mark Barclay loses himself in the OUDS Summer Tour production in London

Escher and the contradiction

Mark Barclay surveys the first ever Escher retrospective

Proximity: Review

Cherwell has a convert to contemporary dance

Preview: Proximity

Mark Barclay tries to hide the fact he's a terrible dancer with fancy words

Review: Breathing Corpses

Mark Barclay admires the ambition of this innovative production

Somerville fights gender binaries

JCR passes provisional motion to replace ‘he’/’she’ with ‘they’

Review: Pentecost

Mark Barclay wishes more productions go where this one dares to go

Review: If Alice

Mark Barclay reviews his favourite show of the term this far

A view from the Cheap Seat- Third Week MT 15

'Youth... a time when an actor becomes an actor' - except if you are Cherwell Stage Critic Mark Barclay

Profile: Ingrid Betancourt

Mark Barclay explores the life of the Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt

Ruffian on the Stair

Mark Barclay is amused and appalled. Which is the right response?

A View From the Cheap Seat

Failed Actor, Super Bitch critic Mark Barclay takes us through second week's theatrical offerings

A View from the cheap seats

List of potential plays for MT15, notes

Michaelmas Highlights

All the latest gossip on what's hot on the Oxford stage this term

Remembrance of theatre past

Mark Barclay wistfully recalls the idealism of freshers’ week

Why social media doesn’t promote social justice

Mark Barclay argues that social media ultimately fails to tackle the world's problems

Was Cumberbatch right?

Mark Barclay asks why nobody questioned Benedict's latest outburst

Video and Theatre

Mark Barclay explores the possibility of a symbiosis of video and theatre - or an invasion of one by the other

Teenage flicks right through the night

Marc Barclay questions how exactly adolescent audiences are keeping cinemas open in the dark days of piracy and Netflix
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