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Night School: Oxford’s after-hours curriculum
The first time I saw Nahom and Ethan, it wasn’t on a night out – it was an early morning. I was shuffling through the half-awake crowd when my...
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Maya Rybin
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‘Delusions and Grandeur’ at the Fringe
★★★⯪☆ If there is one word to describe Karen Hall’s Delusions and Grandeur, it is...
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Peter Hardisty
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The Oxford Revue at the Fringe
★★★⯪☆ Returning for their 62nd annual pilgrimage to the Edinburgh Fringe, the Oxford Revue rolled...
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Leon Moorhouse
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Academia is hell, literally: R.F. Kuang’s ‘Katabasis’
R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis touches on a range of near-universal academic experiences: impostor syndrome; frantic,...
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Charlie Stevens
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Freedom of Speech: where are the boundaries?
'Write whatever you like', many people say. It's not that simple...
Watching ourselves
Alice Salvage looks at why people go to the theatre, and what its future is likely to be
Are You Sitting Comfortably?
A show from the Oxford Imps based on audience suggestions and home-brewed sound effects is audacious-and brilliant
S1l3nce
Our reviewer won't give too much away about this Derren Brownish magic show-except that it left her amazed.
The Truth
Four stars for this Discworld production, the latest in an Oxford tradition
Renegade
The latest offering from the Oxford Revue
The Ideas Man by Shed Simove
A book by the inventor of 'Clitoris Allsorts' fails to titillate or raise titters
Raphaël Zarka – Geometry Improved
We find French 'found forms' fail fundementally
The Class
Rees Arnott-Davies finds Palme d'Or winning French drama a lesson in expert film-making
Buried Child
Sam Shepard's pretentious, flawed play gets better acting than it deserves
Confusions
Dialogue isn't the only thing that's funny about this Aykbourn play
All the World’s a Stage: Shakespeare improved
How Shakespeare's admirers thought his work needed a few rewrites
The Recruiting Officer
This eighteenth-century play is entertaining, but the depth of characterisation got lost in the space of the Oxford Playhouse
A Clockwork Orange
Good acting in the central role can't redeem a confused adaption of Anthony Burgess's novel
Napoleon, complex?
Michael Docherty find The Shadow of Enlightenment's exciting style cannot mask its dull substance.
Viva Glasvegas!
Joseph Weir heads to the O2 Academy to talk to Glasvegas at this year's NME Tour
See no evil, hear no evil
Three Monkeys, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's most recent cinematic venture, is imbued with a mesmeric brilliance from start to finish.
American prospects?
Mark Greif, co-editor of cutting-edge literary journal n+1, talks about diverging intellectual spheres and the role of the intellectual in today's society
Anyone for T?
William Kelleher talks to Toddla T at Fuse Night
4.48 Psychosis
An Expressionist take on Sarah Kane's last play misses the point
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