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The legacy of the caricature

That the ‘In Memoriam’ section of the 2026 Academy Awards is going to be a serious tear-jerker was solidified by the passing of Dolly Parton and Tim Curry over two consecutive days.
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The problem with Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’

Nolan had all the tools for greatness. Instead, to my eternal frustration, his 'Odyssey' will always only be just alright.
Culture Kelly Yu -

‘One Night Only’ (2026) and the death of romance

Romance movies are, on the whole, my favourite movie genre. But good romance movies, like good romantic relationships, are hard to find, and easy to mess up.
Culture Willow Jopp -

Caught between grief and hope: ‘On Some Far Shore’ reviewed

Fresh off the back of 'Our House' and 'Macbeth', Cross Key Productions presents an original three-hander focused on the complexities of grief and young love.
Culture Melissa Eddon -
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Freedom of Speech: where are the boundaries?

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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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