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Friday 1st May 2026
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In sickness, health, and wrongdoing: ‘The Drama’ in review
CW: Gun violence. “What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?” is the driving question of Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama. The film centres around a couple whose otherwise perfect relationship is...
Film
Siena Tracey
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s theatre: Defining the ill-defined
It has been 93 years since the first performance of Bertolt Brecht’s The Good...
Theatre
Amy Lawson
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Authenticity and the pop genre: Slayyyter’s ‘WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA’
Originality could be dead in pop music. The genre is so self-referential that it...
Music
Val Michael
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Why you should spring clean your bookshelf this Trinity
In the Northern Hemisphere, astronomers mark the beginning of spring on the date of...
Books
Elizabeth Bourn
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Learning Lines
What happens when you think you can learn lines the night before the dress rehearsal.
The Just Assassins
Sensitive acting adds to the force of a Camus adaptation
An Independent Mind comes to Oxford
A must-see documentary about freedom-of-speech to be shown at the Phoenix this Monday evening
Frown Line on the Horizon
We calls for cribbage and croquet for pop's not-so-great survivors
Straight to Nairobi
Cherwell superstar Josh Lobes has found fame in foreign parts.
1968 and I’m Hitchhiking Through Europe by Joe Mack
We suggest you use this for kindling when you're hitch-hiking rather than attempt to read it
Invisible by Frank Egerton
We review a book with the least interesting cover art ever
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
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