Reading Time: 2 minutesAnil Seth's 2024 Charles Simonyi Lecture explores consciousness as a brain's predictive mechanism, emphasizing its significance in understanding human perception and psychiatric disorders. He argues that consciousness relates more to life than intelligence and discusses implications for AI and ethics, robustly outlining its importance across various fields for societal decision-making.
Reading Time: 3 minutesNestled in the Banshee Labyrinth, described as Scotland’s most haunted pub, The Sculptor makes up one of the performances at Edinburgh’s Horror Festival, a 4 day mini-Edinburgh Fringe, entirely focused on the grisly and macabre.
Reading Time: 2 minutesRebus: A Game Called Malice is a thrilling stage adaptation of Ian Rankin's detective, Inspector John Rebus. Set in a luxurious Edinburgh mansion, it expertly intertwines suspense and drama, featuring an impressive cast. Strong performances, especially by Gray O’Brien and Jade Kennedy, coupled with effective staging, create a captivating mystery experience for all audiences.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTheatre is a journey into a different world and in few other productions is the power of this art form so greatly affirmed than in Emma Rice’s adaptation of the 1990 novel by Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHere You Come Again at the Lowry, Salford offers a humorous, Dolly Parton-infused take on pandemic life, but ultimately suffers from a paper-thin plot and a sense that its use of Parton's music is more opportunistic than inspired.
Reading Time: 3 minutesScottish theatre has a rich and varied history, not confined to the written text. As explained by journalist and critic Fergus Morgan at the launch of his new podcast “A History of Scottish Drama in Six Plays”, it has undergone a rather unique evolutionary process, often out of necessity, from the obstacles in its way.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe sat down with theatre-maker Daniel Bye who uses a timeless tale for a new generation in his new take on the legend of Robin Hood, which sees Robin and his teenage Very Merry Band rail against the unfair and unequal system put in place by Prince John at the Theatre Royal Bath this festive season.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Flea, created by James Fritz, is a hilarious, genius satirical tale of the Cleveland Street Scandal in 1889. Throughout the parody performance, the show explored how multiple people attempted to sweep this scandal under the rug to save themselves and their reputations. Ultimately, The Flea tells the tale of how the higher-class people involved, like Lord Arthur Somerset, managed to get away scot-free. While the working-class victims were punished.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFollowing the 2022 staging of We Wrote A Show at Camden Fringe, Hannah Adams and Jack Cray have returned to the stage with a new iteration. Based on the same characters and loose plot line as their previous production, they now focus their new show on the complexities of love and dating in the digital age.
This latest production, Chemistry Test, follows the same characters (two Artificial Intelligences, Steve and Evie), as they complete the final stages of testing before being sent to Earth. Their mission? To teach humans that art of romance…without the apps.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHeathers the Musical arrives at the Oxford Playhouse as part of its latest UK tour, following successful runs in London’s West End and two record-breaking national tours.