Review: Comic Mysteries
I am not sure what I expected of Comic Mysteries, directed by Sami Ibrahim, but it certainly did not match up with the performance that greeted me as I entered…
Fangs for the Memories, Bullingdon
Fuse Twilight and Gossip Girl, plonk them down amongst the clock towers in Oxford, and you get Oxford Blood. The novel revolves around Harriet French, a fresher reading History at…
Preview: The Cosmonaut’s Last Message To The Woman He Once Loved In The Former Soviet Union
Heavy brows and chiselled features abound in the aesthetically convincing cast of David Greig’s The Cosmonaut’s Last Message To The Woman He Once Loved In The Former Soviet Union, co-directed…
Stade-up comedy
How did you get into comedy? You know what; I always wanted to be an actor. That’s what my mom had planned for me. But one night, I…
The Wind in the Willows: a Toad Hall success
With the arrival of the summer weather and the onset of garden play season, it feels distinctly appropriate for a theatrical rendition of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows…
Remembering Patrick Garland
The Oxford drama scene in 1958 was marked by the return of graduate Peter Dews, then a director for BBC Midlands, to direct an open-air production of Henry V in…
You Schubert-er believe it, music-lovers
Sam Hornby reminds us of the often overlooked flourishing classical music scene to be found under our Dreaming Spires Like most students I believe I work better when there’s music…
Still Movin on Up
Kate Bradley gives Primal Scream’s new album 4 Stars Primal Scream have been releasing albums since 1987. The iconic Screamadelica (1991) received a Mercury Prize, widespread critical acclaim and spawned…
