Sondheim’s “Forum”– something for everyone?
✮✮✮✮ “Something ecstatic; something dramatic; something for everyone – a comedy tonight” are the words of the opening song to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and they prove only too...
View ArticlePreview: Let Your Hair Down
On one end of the stage, a girl lies huddled on the floor. In another a couple hold hands in a vague show of affection. Working on a L-shaped stage, the cast of Let Your Hair Down shows an impressive...
View ArticleCarfax councillor in by-election controversy
Oxford students have responded angrily to the timing of a recent council by-election in Carfax ward, which saw a turnout of just 8.6%. The election was held on the 4th of September, when the vast...
View ArticleChrist Church GCR under fire for trivialising consent
A newsletter sent out to all graduate freshers at Christ Church has been condemned by students as “horrifying and awful.” The listing for the workshops in The Old Ædesian, a Graduate Common Room...
View ArticleOUSU Council reiterates support for free education demo
OUSU Council has overwhelmingly voted against a motion to drop support for next week’s national demonstration for free education, with only five members voting in favour. The demonstration, due to take...
View ArticleChrist Church cancels abortion debate
The Christ Church censors have declined to grant permission to Oxford Students For Life to hold a debate on the topic of “This House believes that abortion culture harms us all” tomorrow evening. An...
View ArticleReview: The Caucasian Chalk Circle
✮✮ Brechtian ‘Epic Theatre’: it was a challenge from the start. In The Caucasian Chalk Circle Brecht created a play within a play in the complex world of post-revolutionary Grusinia. Auden’s scripted...
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Winging it: 7th Week
It is with great regret that I have to announce the departure from this publication of F D Levin. A letter sent to the office this week cited ‘editorial ineptitude, censorship and resulting artistic...
View Article‘Tis Pity is bloody good
Cheek by Jowl know how to put on a show. The company’s exhilarating production of ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore which has been touring Paris, Sydney, New York, London and Madrid for two years is finally now...
View ArticleStage picks: Trinity 2014
Trinity term: a time of sun, picnics, and punts… it’s a shame you’ll probably be spending most of it in a musty old library somewhere. Still, you’ll want to make the most of what’s looking like a...
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