KEN COCKBURN assesses the art of Ian Hamilton Finlay for the experience of warfare it incited and represents
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
The bard gives us advance notice of his upcoming medieval K-pop releases
GORDON PARSONS steps warily through the pessimistic world view of an influential US conservative
HENRY BELL takes issue with the assertion that basic income is a remedy for poverty when it doesn’t address the inbuilt inequality of capitalism
RON JACOBS welcomes an investigation of the murders of US leftist activists that tells the story of a solidarity movement in Chile
RITA DI SANTO surveys the smorgasbord of films on offer at this year’s festival
Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
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.
Similar stories
EWAN CAMERON savours the global diversity of the Fringe, from Chinese storytelling to Norse pro wrestling
MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds two evocative new productions that have premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe before touring nationwide
ALAN CAIG WILSON is hypotised by a compelling and elusive show about love and death
DAVID NICHOLSON samples two plays – one funny, one unfunny – that will open at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe