Thursday, May 22, 2025

Culture

September 5: Journalism drama doesn’t question the facts enough

Set during the 1972 Munich Olympics, Tim Fehlbaum’s September 5 tracks the ABC Sports crew’s coverage of the Israeli athlete hostage crisis in the Olympic Village: the first terror...

Periodisation and the problem of now

Periodisation is the act of dividing literature into eras like Romanticism, Modernism, or Postmodernism...

Review: Death of a Salesman – ‘The Inside of His Head’

To review Tiptoe Productions’ staging of Death of a Salesman, I must first contextualise...

Oxford’s summer scene: The season of open-air performances

Trinity term at Oxford University is defined by wisteria, wild swimming, and warmth. Students...

Oxford’s evening with John Lydon

Punk icon Johnny Rotten spoke to fans about his recent autobiography, the increasing waistline of the punk movement and the Cotswolds' effects on his digestive system

Is the printed book in its final chapter?

Elliot Langley discusses the decline of the physical book in the modern age and asks whether it really matters

Top 20 albums of 2014

With 2014 all but over, Matt shares his top 20 albums from the past twelve months

Review: Mr Mitch – Parallel Memories

Sara Semic reviews the latest release from instrumental grime producer Mr Mitch

Review: Jackson and Grumitt – Planet Marmalade

Lata Nobes enjoys a night of sketch comedy at the BT Studio

Review: The Country

Martin Crimp's tense three-hander is both gripping domestic drama and thought-provoking philosophical comment, says Fergus Morgan

Review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

Lata Nobes finds the latest Hunger Games a compelling watch

The good, the bad and the BBFC

Ollie Johnson looks at the forgotten role of the BBFC in modern cinema

Lessons from the Script Room

Olivia Sung spills the secrets of the soap opera script department

Preview: The Country

Martin Crimp's taut thriller has the potential to utilise the BT Studio effectively when it arrives there in Eighth Week, says Fergus Morgan

Review: Ridley’s Choice

Izzy Neil is impressed by James P. Mannion's latest play

Interview: The Oxford Imps

This term, nine new performers join Oxford's improvised comedy troupe - we get the inside info.

Interview: Louise Chantal

Fergus Morgan talks to the newly-appointed Chief Executive of the Oxford Playhouse

Review: Carousel

Bethan Roberts doesn't feel that this 1940s musical has stood the test of time

Why the two-part finale is not as new as you think

Sam Joyce argues that the split finale is a relic of cinema's past

Review: Assassins

We're impressed by this darkly comic Sondheim musical

Preview: Jackson and Grummitt – Planet Marmalade

Fergus Morgan meets the latest in a long line of Oxbridge comedy duos ahead of their BT sketch show in eighth week

Review: OBA Short Film Screening

Tom Barrie finds a wonderful range of student-made films showcased at OBA's annual screening.

Preview: Ridley’s Choice

Naomi Polonsky gets an insight into this thought-provoking piece of new theatre

Emily Russell: colours of Matisse and shapes of Malevich

Naomi Polonsky goes for an intense coffee with one of Oxford’s up-and-coming artists

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