Reading Time: 3 minutesMr Chevalier, the flamboyant new director of the Ballet National Folklorique du Luxembourg, presents an exceptional moment of dance. Ticket link here: How do you combine classical ballet, rock music, and haute couture; tradition and innovation,…
Reading Time: 4 minutesCandace Bryan's new hour of standup comedy about trying not to become a shopaholic in a world where the mall is literally in your pocket.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs I sat listening to the London Philharmonic Orchestra deftly make its way from Judith Weir’s leafy “Forest” (1995) to Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op.43” (1934), and then finally to the titular event of the evening, I wondered why I continue to be so drawn to this seven-movement orchestral suite about planets.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMake It Happen is James Graham’s latest stab at revitalizing the oft-forgotten zeitgeists that deeply underpin our present sociopolitical moment.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh saw the last night of the Bat for Lashes tour, and what a note to end it on. Bat for Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) has played here before, remarking in a soft and husky voice on the memory of the distinctive blue and gold decor, and produced a night that no-one in attendance will forget in a hurry.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Fifth Step, the latest play by David Ireland, and produced by the National Theatre of Scotland, is a story about the relationship between two men in sobriety. Directed by Finn den Hertog, we meet James (Sean Gilder) and Luka (Jack Lowden) - James having been sober for many years, and Luka being new to sobriety, and in need of guidance. As James becomes Luka’s sponsor and attempts to take him through the 12 steps, the relationship becomes tumultuous, resulting in a shattering climax. Dark humour sparkles in every scene, deftly laced in conversations around religion, sex, arson, fathers, adultery, women and spiritual enlightenment.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Ascension”, a new play written by Dan Hazelwood and directed by Max Lindsay at the Bedlam Theatre at Edinburgh Fringe, is an adaptation of the real life diary that Leendert Hasenbosch kept as he slowly died of starvation on his own, punished for the crime of sodomy.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is one of the most unique and meaningful versions of Hamlet I've ever seen. Produced by Peruvian theatre company Teatro La Plaza, directed and written by Chela De Ferrari, this version of Hamlet presents the stories of people with Down’s syndrome.
Reading Time: 2 minutesYuja Wang, the internationally acclaimed Chinese pianist, performed a stunning solo recital on 5th Aug at Usher Hall.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis production of Carmen comes to the Edinburgh International Festival direct from Opéra-Comique – the Parisian opera house where it all began, brought to the stage by conductor Louis Langrée and director Andreas Homoki.