Returning favourites and big names dominate the programme for EdFest.com as Assembly, Gilded Balloon, Pleasance and Underbelly announce their line up for this year’s Fringe.
Andy Moseley
A bold and powerful indictment of toxic patriarchy
The Duchess of Malfi will not be to everyone’s taste, but for its target audience it is a compelling production.
Spirited stage show enhances Local Hero’s classic status
A stage revival of the classic film Local Hero carries the risk of it failing to live up to the standards set by the original. Any fears about the wisdom of the project are however unjustified.
Tracing the contribution of two pop art icons
Campbell’s Soup cans and Marilyn Monroe screen prints ensure that Andy Warhol’s legacy continues to be felt more than 30 years after his death in 1987 and they grab your attention on arrival at this latest exhibition which takes its name from a declaration the icon of the Pop Art movement made in an interview in 1963.
Augmenting art brings paintings to life
Mounted in a corner of Trevor Jones’ white-walled art studio is a collection of pages of the Financial Times, each superimposed with striking painted images, none more shocking than that of a man holding a gun to his head.