MAYER WAKEFIELD applauds Rosamund Pike’s punchy and tragic portrayal of a multi-tasking mother and high court judge

Strange Tales
★★★
I Can Go Anywhere
★★★★
Traverse Theatre Edinburgh
WHILE other theatres offer panto, the Traverse is serving up two helpings of bold new writing that chime as much with the political season as with Christmas.
What can you do when a man has no heart? is a topical question to ask about any number of Tories and it comes to mind watching GridIron Theatre’s adaptation of Pu Songling’s 17th-century Strange Tales, which gives a Chinese twist to this Dickensian dilemma.
What is done to resolve it here is to seek out the poorest and most despised beggar on the streets, prostrate yourself, endure their insults and eat their phlegm.

ANGUS REID applauds the ambitious occupation of a vast abandoned paper factory by artists mindful of the departed workforce

ANGUS REID calls for artists and curators to play their part with political and historical responsibility

