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Scottish Opera: Tosca (23 May–2 Jun)

The return of Anthony Besch's celebrated production of Puccini's merry tale of political oppression, betrayal, torture, murder and suicide. Susannah Glanville (star of Opera North's highly-praised…

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Eye to the future at the end of the line for Edinburgh Festival 2008

Alan Bissett's festival blog

27 Aug 2008

Ah, the end of the Fringe. Goodbye rain. Goodbye bright-eyed young hopefuls thrusting flyers. Goodbye posh accents. How was it for you? Depending on who you talk to, plays this year have been too bleak/political/teenage. Given the gloomy political…

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Struggle against the double standard

7 Aug 2008

India's conservative views on sex are placed under scrutiny in Anupama Chandrasekhar's culturally-damning drama, Free Outgoing. The show opens on a comical note when Malini, a widow with two teenage children, shows off her homemade jewellery cleaner to…

Free Outgoing

Free Outgoing

True-life tale explores India’s traditional attitudes to sex

31 Jul 2008

It was a real-life incident that prompted Chennai-based playwright Anupama Chandrasekhar to write Free Outgoing, which depicts a country’s anger when an Indian schoolgirl is filmed with a boy in her classroom. ‘I heard the girl’s family migrated…

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