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» Mela's Hidden Secrets

Features 30 Aug 2008

Junta Sekimori: Upwards of 60,000 people are expected to rally to Edinburgh’s shoreline this weekend to celebrate the wide world with the Edinburgh Mela Festival, the last of the city’s nine August fes...

» The Big Quiz with Josie Long

Features, Comedy 22 Aug 2008

Tom Hackett: 1. In astronomy, what are Eris and Makemake? Hmm… It could be new planets, because there’s been new planets and that’s very exciting. But it probably isn’t. New solar syste...

» Victims of Duty

Reviews, Theatre 21 Aug 2008

Oliver Farrimond: Eugene Ionesco's Victims of Duty is one of the more light-hearted works in the French playwright's distinguished theatrical repertoire. A thoroughly post-modern deconstruction of dramatic form and ...

» HappyLand

Reviews, Theatre 21 Aug 2008

Lucy Jackson: The only way this show could be saved is if the writers, midway through, had decided in a moment of pure artistic genius to metamorphose it into a kind of Orwellian nightmare. Smiley 412, however, ...

» Sir Barrington Ganch: My Life Is Art

Reviews, Comedy, Theatre 21 Aug 2008

Ben Judge: The funniest thing about Sir Barrington Ganch: My Life is Art is the promtional poster. As far as advertisements go, however it is not an accurate one as the production itself offers few laughs. M...

» Eco-Friendly Jihad

Reviews, Comedy, Theatre 21 Aug 2008

Ben Judge: Looking every inch the former student politician, Adie Philbin Bowman—the creator of Jesus: The Guantanamo years—returns to Edinburgh this year with an hour long lecture-come-stand-up a...

» JL Roberts and Nadia Kamil Present: Wisecrackin' Mindsqueezin' Behemoth

Reviews, Comedy 20 Aug 2008

Ciaran Healy: As a double act Roberts and Kamil are slick and engaging. They combine zany but fiercely intelligent material with endearing stage personas in a potent comedy cocktail. Kamil and Roberts share a ...

» The Space Between My Head And My Body

Reviews, Theatre 20 Aug 2008

Oliver Farrimond: While not quite site-specific theatre, the clammy confines of the Baby Belly venue maintains the bland claustrophobia of air travel effectively. The characters navigate baggage used as improvised s...

» Footsbarn's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Reviews, Theatre 20 Aug 2008

Lucy Jackson: The clue is in the title: this production of The Dream may be Footsbarn’s, but it’s not Shakespeare’s. The show will divide those who would happily listen to Shakespeare’s c...

» Out and about with... Christine Hamilton

Features 19 Aug 2008

Hannah Thomas: 11am “I always start the day with a cup of peppermint tea and a banana – how pathetic is that?! We only get one day off during the run so I'm going to imagine how I would spend that da...

» 'Crave' by Sarah Kane

Reviews, Theatre 19 Aug 2008

Anna Polanyi: Cackling and grinning manically, four actors crawl across the room and onto the stage to a distorted recording of “Over the Rainbow.” And so Crave begins. Sarah Kane is like Sylvia Plat...

» The Dancing Screen

Reviews, Music 19 Aug 2008

Hamish Ferguson: With the Film Festival pushed forward to June, Edinburgh's best known cinema seems to have suffered a kind of identity crisis this August. The Cameo's iconic Screen One is playing host to live band...

» Mortal Engine

Reviews, Theatre, International 19 Aug 2008

Anna Polanyi: The concept of a “light & sound show” is given a whole new dimension. Techies, the quiet types in the shadows, hold this show firmly in their grasp, along with five computers, an o...

» Like a Virgin

Reviews, Theatre 18 Aug 2008

Ella Hickson: Gordon Steel’s heart-warming romp through teenage-hood provides a blissfully nostalgic theatrical experience. Angela and Maxine, donning leggings and hauntingly familiar Madonna t-shirts, bou...

» Tea and Cake II: In The Gateau

Reviews, Comedy 18 Aug 2008

Oliver Farrimond: Talk about kicking someone when they're down. If there were any more cheap shots directed at mime artists in this show it'd be almost worth the ticket price which, incidentally, is more than anyone...

» Strange Bedfellows

Reviews, Theatre 18 Aug 2008

Oliver Farrimond: Have you ever wondered what it would be like if George Washington had been a sexual plaything of George III? Or if Marilyn Monroe had furtively courted Lee Harvey Oswald just hours prior to the JFK...

» Apes Like Me

Reviews, Comedy 18 Aug 2008

Tom Crookston: Half way through Kate Smurthwaite’s Apes Like Me we reach what ought to be an absolutely earth-shaking moment. It speaks volumes about the show that, in the moments following her announcement...

» Clarkson & Crouch: Away with the Fairies

Reviews, Comedy 18 Aug 2008

Chris McCall: Clarkson & Crouch, despite their show titles, are certainly not away with the fairies. They might have vivid imaginations, and appear to be a couple of sandwiches short of a picnic, but their c...

» Mort

Reviews, Theatre 18 Aug 2008

Anna Polanyi: Death—with a shining scythe, blue lights for eyes and a disembodied voice—is a likeable character, living as he is through a mid-life crisis: he quits his job (that of “ushering s...

» Plague! The Musical

Reviews, Theatre 18 Aug 2008

Frank Lazarski: Musical theatre is not something which commands universal appreciation. Its formats are well documented, its cliches much parodied. The Musical Comedy genre is one which often subverts the standard...

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