Review: Forgery
Sitting on a crowded bench in Wadham’s antechapel, waiting for the sold-out performance of Forgery, my first thought was ‘What an enormous organ!’. Once the play began, however, it was clear that the unusual venue was perfect, enhancing the play’s grandeur and menace. The production was also
Artist of the Week: Rachel Smyth
Tell us a bit about yourself. I’m Roo and I primarily write music. I’m a music student and I focus a lot on composition and performance, which is mostly what I’m interested in. It’s strange to come to Oxford to do an academic course and then try to make my degree as practical as possible. [&
Nostalgia Blues: The Music of Cowboy Bebop
I’m watching tomorrow with one eye While keeping the other on yesterday. Shinichirō Watanabe’s Spike Spiegel has one critical affliction: his two eyes do not match. With the vision in one eye he sees the future, whilst the perception of his other eye is glossed over with colours of the past. Hi
Review: Fermat’s Last Tango
If equations get you excited and sums get you salivating, then Fermat’s Last Tango is the show for you. The show fictionalises the real-life story of Andrew Wiles (named Daniel Keane in the musical) who proved Fermat’s Last Theorem in 1993. The whole affair is sung: it’s a maths musical, or a
The Nine Editors, or, A Commentary on the University
Abstract: Born and raised in hilly Hertfordshire, this Classics Undergraduate, received his earliest taste of the Ancient World at the hands of The Usborne Book of Greek Myths, read aloud by his eager middle-class parents. Enticed further in his school years by battered Gree
One Paris May Hide Another Paris
Words by Marianne Doherty. Art by Oliver Roberts.
Work in Translation
What must be done to an oyster to make it produce a pearl? Firstly, the oyster – usually bred in controlled conditions and grown in sheltered bays – is taken out of the water and sent to the pearling workshop. Workers then pry it open with a small clip. This allows them to slice into […]
Clawing onto Capitalism: Subculture in the Modern Age
For many, Punk brings to mind a long-lost rebellion: a Vivienne Westwood-tinged era of underground DIY resistance, smoky cat eyes and youthfully optimistic, anti-establishment values. Yet, in Britain’s modern age, pop starlets wear goth-inspired pieces in glossy magazine editorials, and heavy meta
