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EIFF 2021: Bridging the Gap – Mobile
COVID has significantly limited our movements and narrowed our lives to an extent, showing us how much we took mobility for granted. This year, as part of th... Read more »| Updated about 3 years ago -
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Glasgow Short Film Festival reveal films in 2022 competitions
Fans of films of diminutive runtimes should rejoice, because Glasgow Short Film Festival is back, in-person, from 23 to 27 March with another programme showc... Read more »| Updated almost 3 years ago -
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The Letters of Jane Austen @ The Space, Surgeons Hall
A classical subject matter is given a somewhat classical approach as the audience is presented with two female performers reading the letters of Jane Austen ... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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The Girl With No Heart @ Bedlam Theatre
A live acoustic guitar with accompanying cello greet the audience as we enter the Bedlam Theatre. The stage is set masterfully with a charcoal white backdrop... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Puellae (The Truth About Chips and Other Things) @ Summerhall
Puellae is a study into friendship and coming to terms with turning thirty. It is also a subject matter that anyone can relate to. The characters are so enga... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Wonderland @ The Royal Lyceum Theatre
Wonderland does not take its main influence from Lewis Carroll but from tales of sexual exploitation and mistreatment. This approach sets precedence for the ... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
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Theatre at The Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival 2012
The Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival 2012 features theatre throughout its programme, but what makes the line up special is that Community and Yo... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
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Pinocchio: Adventures in the Metropolis @ TheSpace, Venue 45
Pinocchio is a familiar story and this particular adaptation ReShape Theatre look to modernise the tale and present it in an urban setting. The stage setting... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Red, Like Our Room Used To Feel @ Summerhall
Red, Like Our Room Used To Feel is an intimate performance by poet Ryan Van Winkle. Part installation, part one to one poetry reading, the audience is t... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Rime @ Summerhall
Taking Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem as an inspiration, Square Peg Contemporary Circus perform a fantastical interpretation of The Rime of The Ancient Marin... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Puppet. The Book Of Splendour @ Summerhall
Puppet. The Book Of Splendour is a performance that is difficult to forget. The narrator informs us that the presentation we are viewing is not a story, but ... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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A Multimedia Thing (Era Schaeffera) @ Tom Fleming Centre (Summerhall)
A Multimedia Thing is an offsite production from the Summerhall venue at The Tom Fleming Centre. This venue is grander in size and the production of A Multim... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Minu1s @ Zoo
JMUpstart Dance Company are a group of female performers who have crafted an exuberant and bold dance piece that has an ability to convey raw emotion. Sharp ... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Caesarean Section. Essays on Suicide @ Summerhall
The start of the performance sets the tone of Caesarean Section. Essays on Suicide. The audience enters the performance space to the continuous sound of tapp... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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The Softening of MOA-A @ Summerhall
Presented as a multimedia lecture that incorporates medical animation, motion graphics and diagrams, the performance centres around the discovery and harness... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Grit @ Bedlam Theatre
Making full use of illustrations, puppets and innovative stage props, Tortoise in a Nutshell have created an important and imaginative piece of visual theatr... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Gods @ Venue13
CalArts make used video projections showcasing abstract imagery to interpret a short story by Vladimir Nabokov. Utilising silence and shadows, the theme of l... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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The Dead Memory House @ Summerhall
We are shown into what looks like a typical Edinburgh flat, all three female protagonists arrive and a fantasy journey like no other ensues. The Dead Memory ... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Uninvited @ Bedlam Theatre
Fat Git Theatre specialise in adaptations of contemporary stories and with Uninvited they hit the mark. Based on the novella by Peter Mortimer, we are presen... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Flaneurs @ Summerhall
Flaneurs is a live art theatre experiment by Jenna Watt. Challenging the Bystander Effect concept, where – ‘The larger the crowd, the less likely... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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The Pain of Desire @ Summerhall
The show does not begin in the performance space but in the foyer as the audience waits to enter. We are greeted by Wendy Bevan's (the vocalist in Temper Tem... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Shirtwaist @ Summerhall
Jane Bowie is the individual star and writer of Shirtwaist. The audience is presented with an original and engaging theatre piece that is performed with a un... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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The Stranger @ Summerhall
The Stranger is a one man performance of Albert Camus' existential novel, with the intensity of the source material being the heart of Guilherme Leme's perfo... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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The List @ Summerhall
Bold, brash and matter of fact, Maureen Beattie's solo performance is a total joy to witness and the heart and soul of The List. Stellar Quines Theatre Compa... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
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The Shit (La Merda) @ Summerhall
Silvia Gallerano is perched on a pedestal in the centre of the stage. She is completely naked and so is the stage itself. Gallerano spends the entire perform... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
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Faust/us @ Sweet Grassmarket
Our protagonist begins by lying on the floor, while the audience's attention is drawn towards two circular video screens at the back wall of the stage. These... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Remember Me @ Summerhall
Remember Me is a surreal performance as confusing as it is proactive. Using imagery that evokes a Man Ray photograph, light and darkness juxtapose to give an... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Dr Quimpugh's Compendium of Peculiar Afflictions @ Summerhall
The audience is presented with the private quarters of Dr Quimpugh which also doubles up as his practice. Various interesting characters from the Doctor's pa... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Haunted House
Threatening, head grabbing, filthy electro-house with reverberating bass and detached vocoders cruising all over it. This is Haunted House, and this kicks di... Read more »| Updated over 18 years ago -
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XFM Column - October
Last week, Irish comedian Sean Hughes was in the bar my mate DJs in. To no-ones surprise, he asked for The Smiths. This reminded me of a great line from the ... Read more »| Updated about 17 years ago