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27 Feb 2007
What made you decide to do the Glasgow Comedy Festival?
Whatever happened to good clean family entertainment? The oldies are right when they complain that comedy just isn’t nice anymore. That Jimmy Carr off the telly’s always bitching, and the mouth on some of the young ‘uns is frankly disgusting. You…
Isn’t the internet a remarkable thing? Where else could you find a global car boot sale, an opportunity to hunt down former schoolmates and a place to swap obscure specialist pornography in one untidy portal? And while there are men dressed in rags who…
12 Feb 2007
Michael Clark’s arrival in Glasgow coincides with a return visit by George Piper Dances. Like Clark, the founder members of George Piper Dances trained at the Royal Ballet School. Unlike Clark, William Trevitt and Michael Nunn stuck to classical ballet…
As someone who knows all about living up to a legacy, F1 racing driver Damon Hill once said: ‘Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.’ It’s a sentiment that sits well with the protagonist of…
The photograph on the cover of Jennifer McCartney’s first novel, Afloat, has the author sitting on a bench holding two small oranges. ‘I needed a picture and only had six to choose from,’ she says. ‘It was taken in Rome in the Vatican Orange Garden. We…
It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you do with it that counts, as the saying goes. And from an early age, Michael Clark had beauty. A beautiful face, a beautiful spirit and a beautiful style that other dancers tried, and failed, to emulate. And what he…
The publication of William McIlvanney’s novel Weekend was like welcoming an old friend home after a very long holiday, and finding that the time away has left them in extremely rude health.
Back in 2004, the Edinburgh International Festival debuted a play at the Lyceum that would subsequently win five of the ten categories in the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland. Anthony Neilson’s The Wonderful World of Dissocia was an astonishing…
31 Jan 2007
‘If I knew that my son’s art teacher was banging his brains out in the art room, I’d be in there with a meat cleaver.’ Cate Blanchett is reflecting on her new film, Notes on a Scandal, in which she plays an art teacher who has an affair with one of her…
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