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Theatre | Edinburgh Festival 2009 | Review
Junta Sekimori: There’s a nostalgic vision of the Fringe in Edinburgh’s grassroots consciousness in which shows are like tapas, small treats to be cherish...
Jess Winch: In a festival where political discussion is so often dominated by stand-up comedy, it is a pleasure to discover a strong piece of political theatre th...
Marthe Lamp Sandvik: Nine-year-old Rachel is not your typical sweet-natured youngster. She despises her teacher, her nanny and even her own mother, and enjoys nothing quit...
Hannah Atkinson: Robyn Peterson is one of those rare individuals who has lead an interesting life, is a gifted storyteller and manages to combine the two without being...
Sarah Clark: A modern take on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Max and Beth eclectically fuses dance, rap and contemporary rhyme in a powerful portrayal of violent str...
Lewis Porteous: Upon viewing a performance of The Rex Roman Pink Floyd Show, it becomes apparent that maverick writer Simon Ash inhabits a world entirely of his own. ...
Chris Williams: “I want a fella…inside me, all around me let my body be your home” declares Yvonne (Naana Agyei-Ampadu) – a domineering and s...
Theatre | Review
Sophie Vukovic: An Edinburgh bar might seem like a strange place to stage a play adapted from the stories of American writer and notorious alcoholic Charles Bukowski....
Rose Wilkinson: There is something rather unsettling about being led into an auditorium blindfolded – about entrusting yourself, minus a faculty, into the hands...
Jess Winch: Scotland celebrates one of the UK’s finest political cartoonists in a multimedia exhibition of the work of Harry Horse. Horse contributed 52 ca...
Theatre | Feature
Peter Duncan: When I was making my Duncan Dares TV series we ‘borrowed’ my mate's mum's VW Beetle with the intention of sailing it across the English Ch...
Adam Knight: Emma is slowly being drowned by dreams, apparently. The poor girl is clearly in a rather unenviable spot of bother: being crushed under the sheer weig...
Rose Wilkinson: It is to the deafening roar of poetry—in a West Country accent by a figure in a Stig-of-the-Dump costume—that this show opens ... and it o...
David Stevenson: Anna Francolini’s portrayal of Miss Jean Brodie is a virtuoso performance but, unfortunately, she finds herself at the centre of a very mediocre...
Theatre | Art | Edinburgh Festival 2009 | Review
Richard Hanrahan: Amanda and Karl are art students who find themselves both in love and competing for an art prize in college. To win means more then just a moment's gl...
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