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The OxStu’s Haiku of the Week: 3rd Week

The OxStu’s Haiku of the Week: 3rd Week

3rd Week: Sweating. Swearing. We’re Training for summer VIIIs like Oskar Zorrilla.…

Dinner Arty Conversation: The Sonnet

Dinner Arty Conversation: The Sonnet

Ever feel like the only ignoramus in a roomful of culture aficionados? If you can’t be a buff, learn to bluff… THE SONNET Need To Know • A structured poetic…

What’s on This Week: Fourth Week

What’s on This Week: Fourth Week

Sunday 4thWeek (May 12th), 8:00pm The English Patient Get swept up in a WWII romantic epic in St Anne’s Arts Week Film Night. FREE   Tuesday 4th Week (May 14th),…

Review: Hay Fever

Review: Hay Fever

On the sun-drenched quad of Brasenose College, the Pimms is being poured and Cole Porter’s ‘Let’s Do It’ provides the perfect back-drop to the sparkling comedy that is Noël Coward’s Hay Fever,…

No Sacred Cows in The Goat

No Sacred Cows in The Goat

Two and a half hours, an extraordinarily intimate venue, a small cast, a script of high tragedy. A challenge, for sure. And one made all the greater by the fact that…

Review: Midnight at the Rue Morgue

Review: Midnight at the Rue Morgue

You’ll be given a black mask as you enter the Burton Taylor Studio, but don’t expect to be able to hide behind it. You will be interrogated, glowered at, and accused…

Review: George Bellows’ Modern American Life

George Bellows. Anyone? No? Like many others I hadn’t a clue who George Bellows was. Maybe I am a philistine. Compared to the other giants currently doing the London circuit…

Ed Barr-Sim’s Frost/Nixon rehearsal diary: Part Three – Accepting the Facts

Ed Barr-Sim’s Frost/Nixon rehearsal diary: Part Three – Accepting the Facts

Opening night is now only a week and a half away: its desired imminence and imminent nature are both causes for concern. The actual acting and rehearsing bit has slightly slowed…