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THEATRE – A trio of delights at Edinburgh’s Manipulate Festival

The Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival is a celebration of puppetry, animation and visual theatre in Scotland. It took place in Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre from January...

Van Gogh’s friendship with Scots “doppelganger” points to artist’s suicide

VINCENT van Gogh's friendship with a Scottish "doppelganger" provides powerful new evidence the artist died as a result of suicide rather than by accident, according...

BOOKS – Call The Midwife Star’s Personal Generation Game

EVENT: Stephen McGann - Flesh and Blood: A History of My Family in Seven Maladies (Simon and Schuster) VENUE: Baillie Gifford Main Theatre, Edinburgh International Book...

REVIEW – Fact easier than fiction as O’Farrell mines her multiple near death experiences

EVENT: Maggie O’Farrell: This Must Be The Place (Tinder Press) VENUE: Baillie Gifford Tent, Edinburgh International Book Festival     By JEAN WEST WHEN the already well-loved author Maggie O’Farrell decided...

REVIEW – Ringside Seats for Legend Ali’s Life Retold Through Dance

 SHOW TITLE: One Step Before The Fall: Spitfire Company and Damuza. VENUE:  Zoo Southside, August 20, 21, 22. By JEAN WEST   THIS harrowing and powerful one-woman dance performance,...

REVIEW – Flamenco’s femme fatale delivers real Festival fireworks

SHOW TITLE: Yo, Carmen (María Pagés Company) VENUE: Playhouse, Edinburgh, Aug 12-13 By JEAN WEST   “WE HAVE created Yo, Carmen to dignify the woman,” pronounces María Pagés, stamping...

REVIEW – Pure magic as Vuelos reach for the skies

SHOW TITLE: Vuelos, Aracaladanza, VENUE: Church Hill Theatre, August 11-13   By JEAN WEST     WHEN it came to his fascination with aviation, Leonardo da Vinci - not just a...

REVIEW – Leonard Cohen Tribute act left me miserable for all the wrong reasons

SHOW TITLE: My Leonard Cohen VENUE: Assembly Rooms, until 27 August, 7.45pm. By JEAN WEST   OK, so I guess it was my own fault for going to see...

REVIEW – Rough layers peeled away to reveal this sweet, sweet Clementine

SHOW TITLE: Benjamin Clementine VENUE: Festival Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival. By JEAN WEST   You can see why Benjamin Clementine might have got on some people’s nerves early in...

PREVIEW – Musical Ray of Sunshine Ensures there’ll be no Orkestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

SHOW TITLE: Orkestra Del Sol VENUE: Summerhall August 12,  7.30pm. By JEAN WEST     If Orkestra Del Sol could measure their musical worth in smiles they might already be...

REVIEW – Artist Rudog’s new found love of colour doesn’t mask dark messages

SHOW TITLE: More Than Meets The Eye – Ruaridh ‘Rudog’ Crighton VENUE: Hill Street Design House until August 18. BY JEAN WEST   Ruaridh ‘Rudog' Crighton is a man...

REVIEW – Nothing to Niggle With This Mesmerising Take On Tolkien

SHOW TITLE: Leaf by Niggle VENUE: Red Bridge Arts, Scottish Storytelling Centre until August 28 (Even dates). BY JEAN WEST It’s a beautiful tale, JRR Tolkien's  short story,...

REVIEW – Cannon Fires Off A Version Of The Scottish Play That’s Part Soap, Part Surreal – And All Scary

SHOW TITLE: Is This A Dagger? The Story of Macbeth VENUE: Red Bridge Arts, Scottish Storytelling Centre – August 11-20 (not 17) BY JEAN WEST           Andy Cannon is...

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