Theatre Group made a bold move in taking on Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information. With over a hundred characters and reportedly more than sixty individual scenes and no real discernable narrative, it’s not the most […]
Dance Exposé Presents Seven
The annual Dance Exposé showcase is renowned for its slick and professional finish, and this year’s edition was no different. With seven distinct acts, each covering one of the seven deadly sins, this conceptual piece […]
In The Spotlight: LUU Women’s Hockey
This week, The Gryphon talked to Kitty Pandya, a second year PPE student and social secretary for the Women’s Hockey Club. LUU’s Women’s Hockey Club is the largest university hockey club in the country, with […]
Phoenix Dance Theatre: Thrilling Contemporary Dance
There aren’t many contemporary dance companies outside of London who make it to thirty-five years. So, it’s with some credibility that Phoenix Dance Theatre can claim to be ‘the national contemporary dance company of the […]
Aikido: More Than Just a Martial Art
This week, Sam Robinson, a second year PPE student and the Treasurer of Aikido society, gives us a comprehensive view of what being in the society is like. Aikido is a Japanese martial art, […]
How To Be Single – Far more progressive than expected
The trailer promised a sex crazed, girl power, easy-to-watch chick flick. And, to be fair, it totally was. But it was an actually good sex crazed, girl power, easy-to-watch chick flick. When I sat down […]
The Oscars: Editor’s Predictions
It‘s that time again: Oscars season. The season where all the best films of the year are pitted against one another in the awards ceremony to end all awards ceremonies, a gathering set to celebrate […]
Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – Is Jane Austen spinning in her grave?
It seems rather a waste of words to outline the plot of Burr Steers‘ new film Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, simply because this film is really nothing more or less than what it says […]
The People v. OJ Simpson: Not whodunit, but hedunit
It is apparent after the first episode of Fox’s new crime drama American Crime Story: The People v. OJ Simpson that the audience is definitely supposed to be on the side of The People; Simpson […]
Dickensian: Too great an expectation?
I can’t help but imagine what it must have been like to have sat in on the meeting where it was decided to throw almost all of Charles Dickens’ characters together and create an EastEnders […]
Campus Watch: 26/2/2016
University in Texas allows handguns on campus Students at the University of Texas will soon be allowed to carry handguns on campus. President Gregory Fenves has approved the 2015 Republican-led Texas Legislature to allow guns […]
Vinyl: It’s only rock & roll
When it was announced that HBO would be bringing Vinyl – the brainchild of Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese – to our screens this February, the blogosphere went into meltdown. Vinyl tells the story of […]