Double Scottish comedy award winner Vladimir McTavish provides a guide to the top comedy shows to see in week two POLITICAL ANIMAL The Stand Comedy Club, York Place, 11.20pm, 15th-17th and 22nd-24th Aug You can only see this late-night show on a weekday, and it shares the same time slot as The Stand’s Friday and […]
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D’Arrietta relives the Cohen legacy
Fringe review – My Leonard Cohen (rating: 5/5) When he performed at the Fringe last year, Stewart D’Arrietta reflected on the recent death of Cohen’s long time muse Marianne Ihlen. His return to Edinburgh follows the death of Cohen himself last November. It stimulated a fresh interest in the Canadian’s catalogue and gave D’Arrietta an […]
Polished police drama is true grit
Fringe review – Stand By (rating: 5/5) There are so many police dramas on television you could schedule almost an entire day watching cop shows. So why spend a night out with the boys in blue at the theatre? Well, if you like your drama closer to the real thing then this is as close […]
Ayckbourn’s searing vision of the future
Festival review – The Divide (rating: 4/5) To describe this as an epic tale of a bleak future is to understate the commitment required of both the cast and the audience. Set over more than six hours and split into two plays, The Divide feels like a book narrated on stage. While generally gripping, its […]
How I lost my way in the corridors of power
Rab McNeil’s Week I like to keep abreast of developments at the old Scotsman building on Edinburgh’s North Bridge, where I spent many years in grinding toil leavened by moral relativism and existential doubt. Here, I first discovered that there was no god. All that aside, we read on this very website that the old […]