REVIEW: BBC Scotland’s Jim Haynes story – ‘Meeting Jim’
2019-08-16
When I was a teenager, Edinburgh was a smugly small-town city dominated by the Kirk and ruled by the affectationsContinue Reading
REVIEW: Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and her Children
2019-08-15
Scottish poet Tom Leonard died last December. Among his many works is a reworking of Bertolt Brecht’s play Mother CourageContinue Reading
REVIEW: What is ‘gender’ in the 21st century?
2019-08-13
As part of the New York Times Debate Series at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival, New York Times correspondentContinue Reading
REVIEW: Venetia Porter – The Islamic World: A History in Objects
2019-08-13
The Islamic World: A History in Objects coincided with the opening of the new Abulkhary Foundation Islamic World galleries atContinue Reading
MUSIC REVIEW: Kate Tempest @ Edinburgh Leith Theatre
2019-08-11
Kate Tempest has the stage presence of a prophet, combine this with her unmatched command over words results in oneContinue Reading
ART REVIEW: Samson Young @ Talbot Rice Gallery
2019-08-09
Samson Young’s exhibition Real Music at Talbot Rice Gallery is the artist’s first solo exhibition in the UK and presentsContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: The Secret River @ King’s Theatre
2019-08-07
When poverty forces William Thornhill (Nathaniel Dean) into crime in order to save his wife Sal (Georgia Adamson) and theirContinue Reading
The Crucible by Scottish Ballet @ Edinburgh Playhouse
2019-08-06
Helen Pickett’s adaptation of Arthur Miller’s classic play for the 50th anniversary of Scottish Ballet is an arresting and unsettlingContinue Reading
ART REVIEW: Grayson Perry: Julie Cope’s Grand Tour @ Dovecot Studios
2019-08-05
It is hard to believe that Julie Cope’s Grand Tour at Dovecot Studios is Grayson Perry’s first solo exhibition inContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Fishbowl @ Pleasance
2019-08-03
With more and more of us choosing to live on our own in increasingly cramped not to mention costly cityContinue Reading
ART REVIEW: Helen McCrorie @ Edinburgh Collective
2019-07-31
Helen McCrorie’s new video work: If play is neither inside or outside, where is it? presents a world without adults.Continue Reading
REVIEW: Edinburgh Food Festival 2019
2019-07-26
By Monika Hamzová, Soledad Chillarón and Adrien Panet Street food atmosphere, award-winning international meal, marvellous drinks and chilling with friends,Continue Reading
ART REVIEW: Russia: Royalty & the Romanovs @ The Queen’s Gallery
2019-07-24
The exhibition is a unique insight in the familial and diplomatic connections of the Imperial Russian and British Royal families.Continue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: The Lehman Trilogy @ London’s Piccadilly Theatre
2019-07-20
If The Lehman Trilogy was a ship and words were its cargo – long passages of descriptive narration dense withContinue Reading