The Life of a Gecko
Artistic Director of Gecko, Amit Lahav, talks to Andrew Latimer about the long-haul life of Institute, coming to Festival Theatre this month.
Blabbermouth
Although spontaneity is sought after in this epic open-mic, it feels as regimented as a military march.
Interview: Graham McLaren
NTS Associate Director Graham McLaren talks to us about the need for a great auld party. On the eve of the Scottish Referendum.
Thief
A brutally powerful performance by Matt Robertson, sadly of an unnecessarily exaggerated text.
Britannia Waves the Rules
A comprehensive work from the Royal Exchange: gravelly, boisterous and bruising.
riverrun
The conventions of linear theatre are burst from their shackles in Olwen Fouéré’s one-woman show.
The Skeleton Twins
The Reaper looms large in Craig Johnson’s melancholic but lightly-handled tragicomedy.
Patrick’s Day
Believable and brutal film, censuring the idea of “treating” people with mental illnesses who struggle to maintain relationships.
Hyena
Gala screening maintains a recent, though not all-encompassing, tradition at the EIFF of disappointing British fare.
Joy of Man’s Desiring (Que ta joie demeure)
Denis Côté’s opportunity to create an audiovisual landscape of labour is completely squandered.
Stations of the Cross (Kreuzweg)
Stunningly artful vision of religious fortitude and arrogance thwarting our right to individual freedom.
The Uprising
Still an urgent and emotive account of the Arab Spring, but it’s hard to see how Peter Snowdon’s film tells us anything new.
The Gilded Cage
There’s no huge satire or political anchor in Alves’s film, but rather a very well-made comedy of manners.
Cannibal
A film of substantial elegance, grace and even quiet desperation about the routines of a seemingly unremarkable Spanish tailor.
20 Feet From Stardom
A completely euphoric experience that brings forward the backup singers who gave feeling, energy and memory to classic music.