Jul 26, 2022
With a mass shooting every week of 2022 in the USA – young American actors in Edinburgh for the Fringe have spoken about the gun violence that haunts their nation. Hayley Powell and Zoe Prior are appearing in Americana: A Murder Ballad which looks at how young people...
Jul 25, 2022
A stellar line-up has been unveiled for the second annual Music at the Multiverse weekend – two days of great entertainment at one of Scotland’s most amazing outdoor venues. And for 2022 there will be a brand new second stage, the Dance Tent, in addition to the Main...
Jul 19, 2022
The birdsong of the Scottish Borders has inspired composer Helen Leach to create The Blackbird’s Notebook – a new work being premiered in one of the country’s loveliest historic music venues. Helen created the piece, for the pleasing combination of violin and organ,...
Jul 18, 2022
The Galloway Country Fair will host some of Britain’s most talented birds and animals – including performing pigs, fence leaping sheep, beautiful birds of prey and dogs of all kinds. Among the attractions at Drumlanrig Castle, from 20-21 August, will be the Lamb...
Jul 5, 2022
A wanted poster for one of the most dangerous and dastardly beasts in children’s literature now greets passengers at Dumfries railway station. And murals have appeared around the town depicting the notorious Big Bad Wolf and his prey, the Three Little Pigs. The...
Jul 3, 2022
Young Scottish heroin addict Paul Boggie was at death’s door – but with incredible courage pulled back from the brink and ended up as a soldier guarding the Queen at Buckingham Palace. Actor and playwright Tony McGeever, who works closely with Paul, has now turned...
Jun 29, 2022
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...
Jun 28, 2022
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...
Jun 28, 2022
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...
Jun 24, 2022
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...
