Reading Time: 3 minutes In Bloom is a bold, playful and deeply feminine solo performance that blends theatre, dance and storytelling. At its heart, it asks a deceptively simple question: what does it mean to bloom again after the wind has forced you shut?
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Edinburgh International Improv Festival wrapped up on the 8th of March, and it did so with a handful group improv shows (an appropriate send off for a festival so community led).
Reading Time: 2 minutesAt Royal Albert Hall on 8 March 2026, Anna Lapwood and her special guests delivered an inspiring and thoughtfully curated evening for Anna Lapwood - International Women’s Day Concert, celebrating the work of women in music while showcasing the expressive power of the hall’s monumental organ.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSam Hickman’s First Woman is an inventive blend of stand-up comedy and live music, built around a simple but unusual concept: comedy performed with a harp.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the civic imagination, a balcony suggests authority: a ruler greeting the crowd, a politician delivering promises, a monarch acknowledging applause. In Why I Am and Why I Am Not, the balcony of the old town hall becomes something else entirely. It becomes a place for ordinary declaration.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA thoughtful and emotionally intelligent portrait of mothers, daughters and the distances between them “The cord being cut again”. In Life Before You’s opening moments, we glimpse what is yet to come: the painful severing of a…
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn a tale from a bygone Scottish era, there is still be a story relevant to the present Set in 1960s Glasgow, Sailmaker focuses on a Scotland that no longer exists. While elements still linger, the country…
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis production is a brilliant testament to the playful, vital nature of modern ballet - at times surreal, at times intensely human, and always captivating.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn evening with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall presented a varied programme of music by Dvorak, Tchaikovsky and Ludwig van Beethoven. Conducted by Ariane Matiakh, the concert moved confidently between dramatic storytelling, solo performance and one of Beethoven’s most atmospheric works.
Reading Time: 2 minutesEuripides’ Bacchae premiered in 405 B.C, winning first place in the City Dionysia drama competition. In the two millennia that have followed, the play has been reimagined countless times, in countless different iterations. This particular adaptation brought to life by Company of Wolves interprets the show as a one man monologue, adapted and performed by Ewan Downie.