Support for the arts A Scottish government funded programme designed to encourage closer collaboration between the arts and heritage sectors and the business community has generated almost £650,000 of investment in cultural projects during its first year. Launched in April 2017, the Culture & Business Fund Scotland (CBFS) is managed by independent charity Arts & […]
Hayley Murden
Lots of laughs in excellent Oregon adventure
The Trail to Oregon! (rating 5/5) Originally written and performed by American comedy/musical troupe Starkid, and then uploaded to great popularity on youtube, The Trail To Oregon is a unique and interactive take on the old educational computer game The Oregon Trail, widely played in history classrooms. With memorable songs by Jeff Blim, the show […]
Fine start but musical loses its killer touch
Buried: A New Musical (rating 3/5) Promising to be ‘darkly comic’ Buried starts off well with a memorable, nicely sung number in which a female serial killer, Rose, goes through a series of first dates that all end in murder. She then meets Harry and the two realise their similarities when they attempt to kill […]
Creepy tale from the woods is an admirable effort
The Devil You Know: A Horror Play (rating 3/5) Found footage horror has oversaturated the genre in the past decade or so (starting way back in 1980 with Cannibal Holocaust and then popularised by the Blair Witch Project in 1999, leading to more recent and tired productions like the Paranormal Activity franchise) but it it […]
Retro, funny, and a curious entry to the canon
Film review: Solo: A Star Wars Story (4/5) Since Disney took over the reins of the Star Wars franchise from George Lucas, its goal has been to expand the universe. First it started its own trilogy, with The Force Awakens (2015), and then showed us the people behind the destruction of the Death Star with […]