MARIA DUARTE recommends an extraordinary film that explores an absent father’s attempt to make up to his sons
Talking ’bout a revolution
EWAN CAMERON negotiates the fringe to pick out some of the best political shows
SPEAKING TO THE PROTEST MOVEMENT: Gabriele Uboldi and Samuel Rees in Lessons On Revolution
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JOHN GREEN, MARIA DUARTE and LEO BOIX review The Shepherd and the Bear, Hamlet, Twinless, and 100 Nights of Hero
GEOFF BOTTOMS applauds a version set amid the violent conflicts of the 19th century west African Oyo empire before the intervention of British colonialism
GILL PARSONS introduces the remarkable process by which her childhood experience of a convalescent home has become a new drama
SEAMUS HIGGINS introduces some basic facts about the role of sugar in driving a worldwide crisis of diet-related diseases
Japanese innovation, Costa Rican skullduggery, Glasgow Central suicide, and good deeds punished in London
LESSONS IN REVOLUTION (★★★★★) is a play that at times resembles a live action essay, and a poignant look at the dialectic of failure and legacy.
Stitched together by soundscapes, photos, video, audience participation and, fittingly for the narrative, an overhead projector, this is a unique multimedia production held in the intimate stage of the Former Woman’s Locker Room at Edinburgh’s Summerhall.
Produced and performed by playwrights Gabriele Uboldi and Sam Rees, the play weaves a compelling view of the web of global capitalism in a story that takes the audience from the former British colony of Rhodesia to the cramped slum apartments of modern-day London.
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MATTHEW HAWKINS recommends three memorable performances from Scottish dance artists Barrowland Ballet, In the Fields Project, and Wendy Houston
In his second round-up, EWAN CAMERON picks excellent solo shows that deal with Scottishness, Englishness and race as highlights
SIMON PARSONS is beguiled by a dream-like exploration of the memories of a childhood in Hong Kong
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