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One of the real joys of anticipating the annual Taiwan season at the Fringe is that you know you’re never going to be presented with a Coppélia or a Swan Lake, and so it was with an air of almost...
View ArticleGoliath in the Water
Goliath in the Water has to be one of the most inventive pieces of physical theatre this reviewer has ever witnessed, but is made difficult to follow by the fact that the eponymous Korean novel which...
View ArticleHotel Paradiso
Hotel Paradiso from the Lost in Translation Circus company is an innovative and extraordinary show. Instead of the normal circus ring set up with one act following after another, the company have...
View ArticleHard to be Soft: A Belfast Prayer
Hard to be Soft is an interesting four-part dance experiment choreographed and part-performed by Belfast-based dance artist, Oona Doherty. A ‘prayer’ to the people of Belfast, the night shines a light...
View ArticleA Midsummer Night’s Dream
If seeing ‘authentic’ Shakespeare is your thing then it’s time to forget all those £47 a head tickets for the Globe on the South Bank and rush, instead, to catch Rubbish Shakespeare’s A Midsummer...
View ArticleAndrea Spisto: Butch Princesa
Andrea Spisto is rude, lewd, outspoken and exceptionally beautiful, but her genre-straddling show Butch Princesa is an acquired taste. Described as a one-woman queer cabaret, we have comedy, music,...
View ArticleTosca
Scottish Opera’s timely Brexit-era revival of their celebrated 1980 production of Tosca raises many questions. On the one hand, this very grandiose production with its sumptuous grand opera sets is a...
View ArticleAn Edinburgh Christmas Carol
The Lyceum’s original production of An Edinburgh Christmas Carol has the potential to be a truly amazing piece of seasonal theatre. It presents the audience with a stunning adaptation of the classic...
View ArticleCarol Ann DuffyFrost Fair
Frost Fair is not a suitable Christmas choice – or book, for that matter – for fans of the superb verse of Carol Ann Duffy. Packaged by the normally magnificent Picador in a tiny illustrated...
View ArticleEliza GeartyOn the doors
On the doors by Eliza Gearty is a debut collection of connected short or flash fiction, produced as a beautifully designed small paperback novella by Glasgow’s enterprising Speculative Books. Iona Lee...
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