Under Review: Completely Bloody Incoherent
Despite what its title might tell you, Completely Bloody Incoherent unravels itself with impressive lucidity. Splinters Production’s latest play refuses to resign itself to a single category, embracing fragmentation to fully capture the disorienting overlap between who we are and what we creat
Under Review: The Future of the Left, at the Union
There is a particular kind of irony that only the British left can produce with such reliable efficiency. Last weekend I found myself squarely inside it, as four rising left-wing podcasters—Noah East and Sean Ramiz of Northstar Politics, and Freddie Feltham and Jovan Owusu-Nepaul of What’s L
Artist Spotlight: Oli Spooner, Inigo Unknown
Oxford, compared to its oft-referenced rival, Cambridge, has few spaces like Clare College’s music grounds. Whatever band nights and pub performances are put on in this city are comparatively small scale, and music as a genre of creative work commands far less weight and aura then it did a decade
Under review: Exhibition 005
Exhibition 005 was a testament to the vitality of the student art scene in Oxford. The annual, student-led exhibition hosted by Worcester College invites submissions from practising artists across the university, as well as city residents and pupils from local schools. I left feeling pleasantly remi
Under Review: Ulster American
Ulster American is like smoke. A British director and an American actor walk into a room. What do they talk about? Well who they would rape if held at gunpoint of course! The provocation of Ulster American wastes no time and it felt as though I had sat down and became an unwilling participa
Under Review: On Colneis Road
The path to On Colneis Road is as winding as the one down memory lane. Behind heavily bolted doors lies the New College Warden’s Stables, a space which, much like the sprawling ivy interlaced with eroding stone walls by its entrance, is suspended between past and present, manufactured and natural.
Under Review: The Birthday Party
Stepping into the theatre for Postbox Productions’ adaptation of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, your perception becomes one with the play itself: locked into place, unwavering, unfaltering. Co-directed by Loris Avery and Marnie Frankel, the production is uniquely unsettling, never providing
Under Review: Oleanna
While linguist Robin Lackoff claims that men in academia are a group which has “taken itself out of the search for power and money”, the intersection between education, elitism, status, and masculinity is writ large in Boulevard Productions’ excellent new adaptation of David Mamet’s Oleanna,
