The Height of Contemporary Culture
British culture doesn’t exist in our everyday lives, and perhaps that stops us being great again.
How to Get Going (When the Going Gets Tough)
A list of cost-effective ways to go that might keep those pennies firmly in the pocket.
Scotland Loves Anime
An exciting and ambitious programme of animated cinema is back in Glasgow and Edinburgh over two weekends this October.
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
We may understand the severity of the effects of HIV and AIDS, but still campaigns to raise awareness continue. Inside Out’s production of the Broadway hit signifies the importance of the arts in doing so.
My Romantic History
Gone are the notions of destiny, true love and happy-ever-afters. Modern day loving is fast, half-arsed and emotionless.
The Fringe Firsts
We are a country with a reputation for producing splendid things: should we risk losing it all by favouring the mainstream?
The Great Outdoors
Fight the claustrophic Fringe venues with some outdoor theatre: Allotment in Inverleith (weather permitting).
From the Lilypad
THEATRE
Analysing the pressure we are under to form conventional relationships, Tightlaced ask: why be a betrothed Princess, when you can be a dancing queen?
David Leddy’s Untitled Love Story
THEATRE
Untitled Love Story explores the concept of meditation-as-theatre and offers the audience the opportunity to participate and reflect but the end result is somewhat underwhelming.
Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut
THEATRE
The Gin Joint Cut hasn’t stepped on Humphrey Bogart’s toes; it’s side-stepped around them and created a new and clever piece of theatre.
Federer Versus Murray
THEATRE
Gerda Stevenson has cracked the balance between a complex need to preserve the past and the want to get ‘oan wae’ it.
Audience
THEATRE
Ontroerend Goed’s latest show is bound to divide but is a necessary and timely piece of theatre, a must see.
Confessions of a Mormon Boy
SOLO SHOW
Even the Pope is getting down with the idea of gay marriage; what’s the deal with belief systems and ideologies thesedays?
The Fringe begins
Emma finally gets round to planning her Fringe; uninspired, she resorts to spontaneity.
Educating Agnes
Liz Lochhead’s translation of Moliere’s L’ecole des Femmes (School for Wives) discards our reservations and inhibitions by making us laugh at ourselves. And it works.
Preview: Educating Agnes
In Educating Agnes, as with Tartuffe, the language is transposed to Scots and rhyming couplets, a combination which is sure to produce a rapier wit-filled farce.
Interview: Swan Song: Amy Gilmartin & Lindsay Miller
Emma Hay talks to writer Lindsay Miller and director Amy Gilmartin about Alone, Face to Face a piece of new writing to be showcased at the Drama and Theatre Arts Graduate Show at the end of the month.
Swan Song: The Memoirist’s Archive
Kate Bond’s production, a combination of installation and live theatre, examines the more specific relationship between people, and how we understand others through relationships we form with the world around us.
Journey’s End
A show that portrays and humanises the otherwise incomprehensibly large numbers of young men who died fighting, without glory or sentimentality.
The Confidant
Bissett makes it clear that compassion is the arrow of our moral compass, and should always be considered in politics; realising this will turn us in the direction of change.
Wild Life
Setting ourselves apart from another, be it class, gender or race helps us fulfil the ‘I can make my life better than everyone else’s dream. Wild Life questions whether it is possible to remove ourselves from that mentality