Have you heard of Gavrilo Princip? He wanted to change the world – and he did. Princip was the young man who shot the Archduke Franz Ferdinand; the assassin whose bullet led to the start of World War I and transformed history. Was it worth it? And why do so few know...
Three poems set to music by Kathleen Tagg, and sung at the Edinburgh International Festival by Golda Schultz, will mark the latest success in librettist Lila Palmer’s mission to put women’s stories at the forefront of art song and opera. Her song cycle This be her...
Living legend Movin’ Melvin Brown is bringing a Broadway version of his acclaimed show devoted to Black music from the 50s to the present to the Edinburgh Fringe. It’s a rare opportunity to be entertained by a man who was at the heart of a musical, social and cultural...
Rouge, Australia’s circus celebration of the sexy and subversive is heading back to the Fringe – bursting with erotic fun (taster video here). It’s probably the only show where audiences can delight at the antics of three dancing unicorns and a dominatrix along...
Gay musical comedy performer Major Denis Rake was recruited by the secret services to spy on the Nazis during World War II. The need for discretion was absolute – so he became a drag queen entertaining German officers in a nightclub in occupied Paris. Such was his...
