The Hip-Hop Orchestra Experience Indoor and outdoor entertainment is back and that’s good news for fans of the Edinburgh Festival, writes JULENA DRUMI It will be different, and smaller, but at least it’s back. The Edinburgh Fringe is preparing to put on a show that will feature performances inside, outside and and online as it […]
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Festival goes live with 170+ performances
Nicola Benedetti is in residence It may not be the Edinburgh Festival as we know it, but the show will go on, writes JULENA DRUMI Edinburgh International Festival has announced a return of live performances with a diverse programme of UK and international artists. The Festival’s ambition is to pave the way for other organisations to rebuild their own live performance programmes and to re-establish Edinburgh as a global centre […]
It’s the Festival, but not as we know it
The Festival may be absent from Edinburgh’s streets, but the show goes on, writes ANDY MOSELEY The curtain has come down on the last remaining hope of a live Fringe show in Edinburgh this summer. Comedian Arthur Smith, who has performed at the Fringe almost every year since 1977, had been expected to keep a […]
Counting the cost as the show no longer goes on
Cancelling the Edinburgh Festivals has denied playwright ANDY MOSELEY a big opportunity and he fears some venues may not re-open 2020 was to be my year. Or so I thought. Just three weeks ago, I received an offer from Underbelly to put on my new play Make-up at The Wee Coo. Ten years after I […]
Beautifully crafted dance routine blows audience away
Review: The Storm (rating 5/5) This is a mesmerising, fast-paced and intensely engaging routine that blows into the dance studio and infects the senses of the audience. The rhythmic and swirling electro-rock music is translated into a physical expression of mental torment by the seven dancers. A specially-commissioned score by Amarok, which has a feel […]