Tuesday 10th June 2025

Culture

Review: All My Sons – ‘At the end of the American Dream’

Joe Keller, played by Tristan Hood, represents the American dream. He is a wealthy businessman with a traditional family with a surviving son that is about to marry. Like...

Review: The Tempest – ‘Power looks good on her’

All the guests arrived and promptly took their seats, as one of the directors...

Review: Bush! The Musical – ‘Is our actors singing?’

While the genre of historical musical theatre centred around US politicians may be dominated...

Review: So Far, So Good – ‘Counting down the fall’

Student theatre has always thrived on experimentation, collaboration, and the courage to speak up....

Review: Pearls Negras – Biggie Apple Mixtape

The fury and frustration of Brazil's disaffected youth is perfectly encapsulated in the new mixtape from Pearls Negras.

Review: Wild Beasts – Present Tense

Wild Beasts step out of the wilderness on their latest outing

Interview: Rae Earl

Alice King speaks to the author behind 'My Mad Fat Teenage Diary' about mental health

Preview: Caucasian Chalk Circle

Ben Horton appreciates this mix of bleak human tragedy and guffaw-inducing satirical comedy

Focus on: Austentatious

Alice Troy-Donovan meets the makers of this innovative period comedy

Culture Editorial: Translating The Untranslatable

Evy Cavalla on beauty and fidelity in translation

Review: House of Cards

Veronica Heney watched all thirteen episodes of this excellent series in two days, and she suggests you do the same

Comedy: It’s a man’s world?

Ollie Johnson explores TV's narrow-minded view on comedy

Review: REPLAY

Lisa Bernhardt is gripped by the unnerving exploration of an obsessive relationship

Preview: Night of the Absurd

Rosalee Edwards is hits a dead end at the the fifty-sixth semi-subconscious ultra-profound absurdist double entendre

Review: The Last Days of Mankind

Alice Troy-Donovan thinks this satirical look at WW1 Vienna has lost its punch

Review: Snarky Puppy – We Like It Here

Oscar Boyd listens to the jazz and funk infused new offering from music collective, Snarky Puppy

Preview: REPLAY

Edward Bell enjoys an experimental piece of new writing

Preview: Tis Pity She’s a Whore

Molly Winter has a sneak preview into this bloody tale of incest

Review: The Monuments Men

Damien Shannon cannot help but admire George Clooney's latest directorial effort

Netflix: the shape of the future?

Samuele Volpe considers our changing understanding of TV

Review: Sweeney Todd

Bethan Roberts enjoys this elegantly conceived take on a classic.

Bargain Bin: Britney Spears – Greatest Hits: My Prerogative

Cherwell trawls charity shops looking for musical bargains.

Review: Sunn O))) and Ulver – Terrestrials

Metal veterans Sunn O))) experiment with their sound on their latest offering, a collaboration with Norwegian band Ulver.

Review: Angel Olsen

Adam Piascik reviews the sophomore album of Missouri native, Angel Olsen.

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