Lubna Kerr takes comfort from an AI version of her late husband ANDY MOSELEY sees a vision of an AI future and a family reunion, both rooted in dealing with death A Better Memory✭✭✭✭✭ The question of whether you would want an extra day, let alone the rest of your life with a deceased loved […]
Edinburgh Festival
EdFest: love, laughs and rock ‘n roll redemption
HardLove is an unflinching comedy Our contributors preview a selection of eye-catching shows HardLove Following a sold out run, extended by overwhelming demand, at New York’s Soho Playhouse, this raw and unflinching comedy invites audiences to witness a volatile late-night encounter and its aftermath. Starring Miray Beşli and Chandler Stephenson, and directed by Jee Duman, […]
Festival looking for fringe benefits
Edinburgh Fringe Festival faces rising costs (pic: Terry Murden / DB Media Services) Concerns about costs have become as much a feature of the Edinburgh Festival as the shows themselves, writes TERRY MURDEN When Anthony Alderson addressed an Edinburgh Fringe launch party in the rear bar of the Tiger Lilly restaurant, the head of the […]
The good, the intriguing and the questionable
Fringe organisers, quite rightly, like to talk up the eclectic range of talent on offer, while every year contemporary issues add their own unique flavour. This year the event takes place in the middle of a party leadership campaign, a cost of living crisis and six months into a devastating war in Ukraine and they […]
Festival in rude health as the show goes on
Lucy Porter returns this year (pic: Terry Murden) Talk of a less vibrant Edinburgh Festival this year is overdone, says arts correspondent ANDY MOSELEY Anyone taking a walk through Edinburgh can the see the unmistakeable signs of something familiar coming our way. The pop-up bars, box offices and promotional hoardings wrapped around railings and lamp-posts […]