REVIEW: Talk It Out
Reading Time: 2 minutesTalk It Out is a performance by the Edinburgh University Showchoir, its members (about 15 people) take turns singing songs from various musicals, some solo and some as group numbers.
Finn Baldwin
REVIEW: Manipulate Animated Horror Shorts
Reading Time: 3 minutes“A Strange and Powerful Selection of Well-Curated Shorts” The Manipulate festival’s horror shorts screening was initially intended as a retrospective. As the host of the event explains, upon seeing the quality and diversity of the current animated…
REVIEW: Press to Pulp
Reading Time: 2 minutesNoir is a genre that has long since been diluted into vague pastiche and misunderstanding of what it once was.
REVIEW: Dancing Shoes
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Hilarious and Heartwarming – Without Ever Pulling Its Punches” Dancing Shoes isn’t quite the play you might expect from its title. The words ‘dancing shoes’ suggest something light and playfully funny, and certainly not a story about…
REVIEW: Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Reading Time: 3 minutes‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist’, originally, is an Italian play by Dario Fo which first opened in 1970.
REVIEW: Ocean Film Festival
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Ocean Film Festival presents a series of nine short films about the ocean and the people who dedicate their lives to it.
REVIEW: LEAR at Traverse Theatre
Reading Time: 2 minutes“An excellent idea - but not much more”
REVIEW: Wee Man
Reading Time: 3 minutesTwo young men play something that looks a lot like football as the crowd sits down in the circle of chairs surrounding the stage. The floor is marked to resemble a school gym, various circles and dotted lines laid out to vaguely resemble the courts of various sports.