Jul 23, 2018
A new American musical sees young performers confront the challenges faced by teenagers who look and feel different from the crowd. Geekis a darkly comic and fantastical tale that explores issues from bad body image through to love, loss and redemption. Premiering at...
Jul 17, 2018
Wigtown Book Festival has been named as Scotland’s top cultural event of the year just as preparations get underway for the 20thannual event. The award was given as part of the Scottish Cultural Awards, described as the country’s Oscars, with the winners being...
Jul 17, 2018
One of the liveliest small music weekends in Scotland will soon be setting the summer nights aglow when the Firefly Festival returns to Moniaive. This year it features a line-up including The Hoolits, Trongate Rum Riots, Greg Lawson and Pete Garnett and Emma...
Jul 14, 2018
In 2016 internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Joanna Wallfisch cycled 1,154 miles down the Pacific Coast Highway carrying little but a ukulele and a loop pedal. She called her journey The Great Song Cycle. This odyssey, rich with strangeness and delight, gave...
Jul 14, 2018
The cream of New York gospel and R&B singers, plus leading Off Broadway performers, are coming to the Edinburgh Fringe with a new musical telling the true story of an 1850s Virginia slave who was shipped to freedom in a box. Henry Box Brown is directed by Tony...
Jul 14, 2018
Four high school pupils have been given the chance to create costumes for a major new production by one of Scotland’s most visually spectacular performance theatre companies. Oceanallover, run by Alex Rigg and Florencia García Chafuén from Moniaive, is renowned for...
Jul 14, 2018
The full list has been unveiled of over 100 Scottish and international contemporary artists taking part in this weekend’s Art Car Boot Sale in Glasgow. The line-up (see below) includes half a dozen Turner Prize nominees and 2007 winner Mark Wallinger as well as other...
Jul 3, 2018
See the trailer here. Ivor waits, his train of thought broken by his fragmented and decaying memory. His daughter Lily packs a bag, preparing him for a “home”. But Ivor’s not going quietly. As fast as Lily packs, he unpacks … Confusion and misunderstanding multiply in...
Jul 3, 2018
Veterans Premier Drama Based on the Real-Life Stories of Bravo 22 Company See trailer here. As a bomb disposal expert doing VIP protection at the Fringe Ken Bellringer never expected to appear there on stage himself. But this year he is among 15 members of Bravo 22...
Jul 3, 2018
Brazil 1979: a drowning man is washed up on a beach where he meets a mysterious woman. She cajoles, questions and flatters him into attempting to defend the indefensible. Mengele, starring Tim Marriott, is a warning from history that unveils what happens when the...
