Fringe
Preview: SMHAFF 2014
A look at some of the creative talent featuring in this year’s Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival.
Interview: Bush Mouzarkel
Playwright Bush Mouzarkel talks about meaninglessness and the role of theatre in dealing with real events.
Interview – Henry Maynard
Neil McEwan chats to Henry Maynard of Flabbergast Theatre about puppetry and people.
Interview: Cracking the Fringe
Callum Madge speaks to Jon Gracey and Viv Egan about their new guide for those seeking to perform in August.
Mark Thomas leads LGBT protest
Comedy-as-protest, as performers, activists and Festival-goers gather round the Russian Consulate.
Solomon and Marion
Touching and powerful South African set drama of connection and confusion.
Interview: Alfie Moore
Interview with policeman, reformed gambler and talented comic Alfie Moore about his new fringe show.
The Wau Wau Sisters
Interview with the bawdiest broads at the Fringe, New York’s The Wau Wau Sisters.
Interview: Micheline Van Hautem
Interview with Belgium’s brilliant Jacques Brel interpreter Micheline Van Hautem.
Grounded
George Brant’s one-woman play ambitiously collides motherhood with the War on Terror.
Sold Out Shows?
Rory Edgington fights through the crowds at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and questions whether it’s all that it used to be.
Interview: David Bates
Interview with the man behind the Fringe’s most portable and stylish venue.
I, Tommy
Though slightly forgettable, I, Tommy is current, trenchant and at times very funny.
Minotaur
Minotaur is a finely directed minimalist piece, straddling both the traditional and modern in its concept.
Mies Julie
The chemistry between Bongile Mantsai and Hilda Cronje is torrid, creating a perspiration drenched eroticism
And the Girls in Their Sunday Dresses
Hlengiwe Lushaba and Lesego Motsepe have a brilliant comic chemistry, riffing off the polarities between their characters.
Interview: Lee Gershuny
Artistic Director Lee Gershuny speaks about her company’s new twist on the classic Minotaur tale, taking on the media and the world of power.
4.48 Psychosis
Sarah Kane’s swan song is darkly beautiful and still as harrowing as ever.
Interview: Little Cauliflower
Little Cauliflower’s Lucy Western speaks to us about the art of puppetry.