Culture
The Christ Church Picture Gallery: Review
The Christ Church Picture Gallery has free entry for Oxford students. It offers a chance to view one of the most impressive college art collections, with pieces spanning the 14th to 18th centuries
Men used to go to war – now they DJ
Why are so many people becoming DJs? This recent obsession has taken the world...
Matchstick Cats
Mark and Trev were surrounded on the bed of the truck by old wooden...
The rise of genre fluidity: Is this the death of genre as we know it?
My favourite genre of music: a question I’ve found becoming increasingly difficult to answer...
Memory and Narrative in Miguel Gomes’ Tabu
"Now approaching the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, I return to Miguel Gomes’ 2012 feature Tabu."
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
