Review: Same Team – A Street Soccer Story
This new play championing female empowerment, friendship and football takes the lives of real women and puts them centre stage. Masterfully intertwining wit and emotional pain, the story revolves around…
In Defence of the Pantomime
Everyone loves a pantomime, right? Nothing like a spot of ‘Oh no she didn’t’, ‘Oh yes he did’ to raise one out of a seasonally depressed slumber. It provides a…
Park Run: What’s Not to Love?
Saturday morning. 9am. Headache. Bleary eyes. The magnetic pull back to bed is overwhelming. And yet, here I am approaching Newington with trainers already soggy and air pods rapidly running…
Review: The Barber of Seville
While the thought of Rossini’s original Italian opera may be daunting, Sir Thomas Allen’s whimsical and tumultuous interpretation of the beloved comedy is the perfect introduction to the genre, or…
Is Leith Comedy Festival Providing Leith with the Cultural Resurgence it Needs?
From 6th – 8th October the first Leith Comedy Festival was held in the area, championing local artists and bringing investment into a neighbourhood that, while gentrified in the centre,…
Interview with The Taming of the Shrew Director Minna Gillett
How have you adapted the original Shakespeare text in this new interpretation? What recontextualisations can we expect? The most notable thing is the gender swapping of some of the characters.…
Review: Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape
Set in the midst of social and political unrest in the run up to the Scottish Independence Referendum of 2014, Peter Arnott paints a fluid picture of a fractured family,…
Review: Matthew Bourne’s Romeo + Juliet
If you love ballet, and Matthew Bourne’s choreographically complex interpretations, then you will love this as one of the most ambitious, but if you love Shakespeare, and are looking for…