Tam Dean Burn

The Hot 100 2008

11 Dec 2008

It’s been a helluva year. 2008 has been a time of significant global change, socially, politically and culturally, with Scotland no exception. So here, for your delectation, is The List’s pick of the 100 people, places and things that rocked our world…

Edinburgh Festival Fringe theatre highlights for a fiver

20 Jul 2009

Short of cash but trying to squeeze in as much festival action as physically possible? Fear not! Our inflation-busting guide presents fifty preview shows for a mere five of your Scottish bank notes

The Bum-Clocks

25 Jun 2009

Leith’s Bum-Clocks are the only Robert Burns tribute band who play in the style of Iggy and the Stooges. If that sounds too high-concept for you, a glance over those involved mean they demand a listen. The Bum-Clocks – ye olde Scottish name for a…

Five Minute Theatre hosts 200 pieces of theatre over 24 hours

National Theatre of Scotland's ambitious live-streaming project

21 Jun 2011

At 5pm on Tuesday 21st June, a global event will begin. Lasting 24 hours, there will be over two hundred online broadcasts of live performances created by anyone who wants to take part and viewed by a worldwide audience. As a celebration of the National…

Glasgow experimental music festival Instal makes 10th outing

Bill includes MattFlorian Hecker, guitarist Neil Davidson and French improviser Matthieu Saladin

2 Nov 2010

Seekers of easy listening music, turn away now. Instal’s exploration of ‘brave, new music’ aims to stimulate your brain, and your ears. Neil Cooper explains further

Caledonia

History repeating itself

23 Aug 2010

There is a moment in Alistair Beaton’s new play that creates a collective audible intake of breath from its audience. It is the point where Paul Higgins’ deluded huckster of a banker announces that his private corporation is now bigger than the state…

Tam Dean Burn and White Horse Collective at Arches' New Works New Worlds festival

24 Jun 2010

For several years now, the Arches’ New Works New Worlds festival has produced alternative views of both art and the world, and the signs are that Glasgow audiences are increasingly aware of it as a place to go for ideas that swim outside the…

Bletherheads

Literary and performance talent on the cheap

21 Aug 2009

Why would you bother forking out your last twenty quid for a probably patchy big-name comedian when you can see the cream of Scotland’s literary and performance talent, live, for less than the price of a fish supper? The increasingly ubiquitous…

The Year of the Horse

Frightening vision of a vacuous consumer society

13 Aug 2009

The cartoonist, Harry Horse presented a haunting, gothic vision of contemporary Britain in the Sunday Herald in the year before his tragic and early death in January 2007. These bare facts and a few more are communicated by Tam Dean Burn before he…

The National Theatre of Scotland - Dolls

22 Jan 2009

Cinema and theatre have a long history of sharing stories. Plays are adapted into films, and every second blockbuster seems to flip easily into a Broadway musical. However, what tends to happen is a straight transfer of plotline and character. In…

The Caretaker

16 Oct 2008

CLASSIC Directing a classic Harold Pinter play is, says Philip Breen, like staging an opera, so exactly is it written. ‘Every pause is written for a reason and he’s always right,’ says the director, returning to the Citz after his successes with…

Corona Classic Cuts

5 Jun 2008

NEW SEASON Oran Mor, Glasgow, until Sat 29 Jun King Lear in 50 minutes looks a pretty tall order, but it’s just one of four canonical classics reduced to lunchtime length in this new season from Oran Mor’s A Play, a Pie and a Pint. Producer David…

Tam Dean Burn

17 Jul 2007

He’s your Venus Steve Cramer talks to Tam Dean Burn, sole actor in an adaptation of Luke Sutherland’s Venus as a Boy, about love, sex, childhood and forgiveness How does one pitch the story of a dying transsexual prostitute to the relatively…