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Steffi Klenz: Nummianus

Steffi Klenz: Nummianus

(3 stars)10 Feb 2010

Red-bricked Lego blocks build up seemingly endless façades of vacant terraced houses – boarded up, echoing displacement and post-industrial decline, they fail to bare remnants of the lives of previous inhabitants. These are the kind of dead houses where…

Five Things You Might Not Know About: Stewart Lee

Five Things You Might Not Know About: Stewart Lee

10 Feb 2010

While at Oxford, Lee first joined hips with Richard Herring in various revue affairs including some critically-unacclaimed jaunts to the Edinburgh Fringe in the late 80s. Al Murray was also part of that gang and later Lee would script edit the Pub…

Tron to stage Martin Crimp's The City

Tron to stage Martin Crimp's The City

10 Feb 2010

It is in the nature of cities, capital cities in particular, to juxtapose the trivial with the weighty. As city dwellers we are at once individuals with worries about bus tickets and groceries, and also part of something much bigger – the city itself…

What We Know

What We Know

10 Feb 2010

One of the changes at the Traverse since Dominic Hill’s appointment as artistic director is the theatre’s determination to mount a wide range of small scale work in its studio theatre. The success of David Greig’s Midsummer over the last year bears out…

Drawing for Instruction

Drawing for Instruction

(3 stars)10 Feb 2010

While the presentation at first appears haphazard, Drawing for Instruction draws the viewer deep into the space on a journey through an Edinburgh history of buildings, musical instruments and even the brain. Edinburgh College of Art displays a…

The Beauty Queen of Leenane

The Beauty Queen of Leenane

10 Feb 2010

‘Someone said to me once that Ireland just skipped the 20th century and went from the 19th to the 21st,’ muses Scottish-born, Irish-bred actress Cara Kelly when asked about the ‘Irishness’ of her current role, in Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of…

Duncan Campbell - Make It New John

Duncan Campbell - Make It New John

(4 stars)10 Feb 2010

The iconic gull-winged DeLorean DMC-12 sportscar, famed for its appearance in the film Back to the Future, was the object of affection that triggered Glasgow artist Duncan Campbell’s initial interest for his new film. A nostalgic amalgam of 1980s…

Tom Dale Company: Roam

Tom Dale Company: Roam

10 Feb 2010

The universal need to explore new territory – whether you’re a lion prowling a desert plane or a teenager leaving home – was the starting point for choreographer Tom Dale’s new work, Roam. ‘I wanted to find a parallel between the human need to explore…

Promises Promises

Promises Promises

(4 stars)10 Feb 2010

It’s no mere nod and a wink to lovers of Muriel Spark that the school teacher protagonist of Douglas Maxwell’s gripping new monologue is called Margaret Anne Brodie. The character herself may claim not to have read Spark’s famous novel of sex, power and…

Scottish Dance Theatre

Scottish Dance Theatre

10 Feb 2010

As an experienced choreographer, Janet Smith has always had much to offer Scottish Dance Theatre (SDT). But as the company’s artistic director, she’s also got an eye for outside talent. Smith has brought a diverse range of people in to work with her…

New Territories 2010

New Territories 2010

10 Feb 2010

The cutting edge dance and performance festival returns to Glasgow for its tenth outing. This year’s programme of specially commissioned work by international artists includes premieres of work by Australian performance installation artist Fleur Elise…

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