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Exhibition review / 21 March 2025
21 March 2025
While the group known as the Colourists certainly reinvigorated Scottish painting, a new show is a welcome chance to reassess them, writes ANGUS REID
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Film of the Week: / 20 March 2025
20 March 2025
ANGUS REID recommends an exquisite drama about the disturbing impact of the one child policy in contemporary China
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Short Story / 7 February 2025
7 February 2025
The phrase “cruel to be kind” comes from Hamlet, but Shakespeare’s Prince didn’t go in for kidnap, explosive punches, and cigarette deprivation. Tam is different.
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BenchMarx / 28 January 2025
28 January 2025
ANGUS REID deconstructs a popular contemporary novel aimed at a ‘queer’ young adult readership
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Best of 2024 / 3 January 2025
3 January 2025
A landmark work of gay ethnography, an avant-garde fusion of folk and modernity, and a chance comment in a great interview
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Theatre review / 29 November 2024
29 November 2024
ANGUS REID applauds the inventive stagecraft with which the Lyceum serve up Stevenson’s classic, but misses the deeper themes
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Gig Review / 6 October 2024
6 October 2024
ANGUS REID time-travels back to times when Gay Liberation was radical and allied seamlessly to an anti-racist, anti-establishment movement
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Interview / 15 March 2024
15 March 2024
ANGUS REID speaks to historian Siphokazi Magadla about the women who fought apartheid and their impact on South African society
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Theatre review / 22 February 2024
22 February 2024
ANGUS REID mulls over the bizarre rationale behind the desire to set the life of Karl Marx to music
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Theatre Review / 16 February 2024
16 February 2024
ANGUS REID applauds the portrait of two women in a lyrical and compassionate study of sex, shame and nostalgia
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Interview / 26 January 2024
26 January 2024
ANGUS REID speaks to Mark Cousins about his documentary The March On Rome, commissioned in Italy, about Italian fascism then and now
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BenchMarx / 5 January 2024
5 January 2024
ANGUS REID reflects on John Pilger's late films as a popular form of political cinema