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Evolve launch with Rhona Cameron
18 Aug 2010
Edinburgh social networking event for gay professional ladies
Come along and help to launch Evolve, a new regular social networking event for gay professional ladies and their friends. Stand-up comedian and author Rhona Cameron will be in attendance to assist with the celebrations. Revolution, Chambers Street…
Havers and Blethers brings new spoken-word show to Edinburgh
16 Aug 2010
Daily show features writers, poets, actors and musicians
One of the great things about this time of year is the number of off-Fringe festivals that spring up, like this daily spoken-word-based show, hosted by Kirsty-Jacqueline Lingard and featuring writers, poets, actors and musicians performing short…
RM Hubbert and The Parsonage among highlights of Sonic Soak
15 Aug 2010
Weekend festival of music and art in Govanhill Baths
From the echoing caverns of the now-disused Govanhill Baths, sound and art collective 85A have curated a weekend festival of music, installation, cinema and fancy dress: although there’s no water in the pool, patrons are expected to come in swimwear or…
Glasgow walk encourages critical engagement with centre
14 Aug 2010
Guided walk of city explores use of urban space
The skyscraper-crammed stretch of city centre basking in the title Glasgow’s International Financial Services District is a strange place at the best of times. During the day, the tower blocks are full of call-centre workers; at night the street corners…
Intertwine
14 Aug 2010
Works, and dancers, in progress
Collisions Dance Company are on the cusp. They’re young enough – as a company and individuals – that they haven’t quite found their own style yet, but they’re also talented enough that watching even an uneven collection of small pieces like this feels…
Be-Dom
14 Aug 2010
Joyous fun with Portuguese drums
As the huge white screen they’ve been playing behind in silhouette collapses to reveal what appears to be a junkyard full of cavorting, hunky (and fairly well-scrubbed) crusties, the tone is set for an hour of shambolic play. Switching fairly…
The Regretrospective
14 Aug 2010
The tiger who came to tea with his ex-lover, the horse
Under ‘experiences that could only happen at the Fringe’, chalk up ‘watching a woman wearing a horse’s head use flamenco to seduce her ex-lover, a large cuddly toy tiger, in a bedsit, to a trip hop soundtrack’. And yet, bizarrely, dancer and multimedia…
Tales From The Blackjack
14 Aug 2010
Following three people’s descent into addiction
There’s a moving story to be told about how compulsive gambling ruins people’s lives, but this one-man show, told by the croupier of a casino and following three people’s descent into addiction, isn’t it. Despite a powerhouse (if at times slightly…
Extinguish
13 Aug 2010
One man stares down several abysses
Ezra LeBank is one of those people who it might genuinely be pretty entertaining to watch reading a phonebook: his voice is musical, finely-timbred, and he uses it like an instrument, and his physicality is awesomely controlled: muscles don’t move on…
Like You Were Before
13 Aug 2010
Home movies and movies about home
Walking in off a dark, rainy Marchmont street to the dimly-lit cinematic wonderland of Alphabet Video after hours, the stage is already set for cosy personal revelation. Debbie Pearson, Canadian emigrée, and former Alphabet employee-turned playwright…
My Hamlet with Linda Marlowe
13 Aug 2010
That’s the way to be or not to be
This reinterpretation of Hamlet is interesting on several levels beyond the marketing tagline (‘Linda Marlowe does Hamlet! With puppets!). Yes, it’s essentially a one-person show, with Marlowe doing all the voices, but then perhaps there’s an argument…
Two
12 Aug 2010
Uneven play about a succession of couples packs a powerful punch
Two frantic, versatile actors play a succession of straight couples – in love, in hate, in cynicism – who come into a pub in the north of England. Through it all runs the relationship of the landlady and her husband, a dark, unspooling thread strung…
EIF show Caledonia discusses banking and Scottish nationalism
11 Aug 2010
Darien colony tale retold at Edinburgh International Festival
The last time the National Theatre of Scotland was on an Edinburgh International Festival stage they told, in 365, small, beautiful half-stories about teenagers, played by unknown actors - living in the forgotten corners of public life. That was in…
Jacobite Country
10 Aug 2010
Ramshackle action in the Pictish Free State
Haggis McSporran (no, that’s his real name), who may or may not be the greatest standup in Scotland since Craig Ferguson/Frankie Boyle/delete as appropriate, is conflicted. He’s spent much of his 27 years trying and failing to understand the…
Operation Greenfield
10 Aug 2010
Teenagers getting Christ, no kicks
Four shining-faced teenagers, all of them white and English, three of them angelically blonde, act out the Annunciation with passion and fervency. They smile, as though they’re overflowing with joy of it; they face us and they shout ‘FOR NOTHING IS…
Stephen Carlin - The Podium of Unconditional Surrender
10 Aug 2010
Airdrie wag refuses to get tough
Stephen Carlin doesn’t really have a thing, in that way that comedians do: no identifying features. In his comedy, not facially. Facially he’s easy to spot: good-looking, with the sort of dastardly moustache that you rather suspect is going to turn out…
Comedy in the Dark
10 Aug 2010
Well-known comics pitched out of their comfort zones
Selling a show as ‘comedy in the dark’? Make sure the lights go out completely in the venue. It’s interesting to see well-known comics pitched out of their comfort zones (Shappi Khorsandi discovering how much of her routine was based on facial comedy…
Penelope
9 Aug 2010
Enda in the ascendant
If ever there was an unlikely group of candidates for moral reclamation, it’s Homer’s Suitors, those odious, power-hungry freeloaders who installed themselves at Odysseus’ palace after he was presumed dead, intending to marry his wife Penelope, and thus…
Inside features live score from 65daysofstatic
9 Aug 2010
Dance: not just for girls, okay?
Hefty, stark and at times brutally visceral, Inside, the new work by boy wonder Jean Abreu, is macho dance, its choreography built around lines of masculinity and inspired by prison movies. There are no tutus, no extraneous flounces, and, with a live…
10 Dates with Mad Mary
9 Aug 2010
A simple but brilliant study about readjusting to life out of prison
‘Mad’ Mary McArdle is 25 and having some trouble readjusting to life out of prison. She drinks, she hangs around the local teenagers to whom she’s a celebrity, and she tries not to start any more fights. This is a very simple character study, but it’s…
All the Queen’s Children
9 Aug 2010
An impressive, unflinching piece of fluid theatre
The teens of Reading Youth Theatre devised this unflinching, impressive piece of fluid theatre themselves around the stories of real-life teenage asylum seekers (some of whom are in the company). Samuel is forced to swim to shore, swaggering, glam Lule…
Blackout delivers graceful and hard-hitting insight
8 Aug 2010
Simple, brilliant, and in the second person
Imagine you’re Davey Anderson, a playwright whose work has never shied away from the realities of life in working class Glasgow. The National Theatre, in partnership with children’s charity Barnardo’s, puts you in touch with a teenager who you’re going…
Martin Creed: Ballet Work No 1020
8 Aug 2010
Oh, do try harder, disgruntled of Sadler’s Wells
Three stars. That’s what Martin Creed’s getting, although I suspect he was aiming for one, and some outrage. Three stars because there are a couple of interesting dance moments, a few good laughs, and some of the musical numbers are quite good, although…
Continent
8 Aug 2010
Barton finks too much
There’s something curiously retro about this little piece, from the tight-fitting, slightly shiny suits worn by its performers to the old fashioned world of typewriters and briefcases it conjures up.
The Festival of the Imagination
6 Aug 2010
A huge, groundbreaking new festival for the people of North Glasgow.
Big tops. Gigs. Silent discos. Theatre shows. Circus workshops. Ballroom dancing, sequinned bicycles and a ‘tented village of dreams’. And no, we’re not talking about Edinburgh. The Festival of the Imagination, the biggest ever arts event to be held in…
