ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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Shades of Tay, Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Lockdown diversions from the heart of Scotland
Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
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GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
DESCRIBED as a love letter to Scotland, Shades of Tay is intended as “a gift to those isolated by Covid-19 and those who feel isolated from theatre in general.”
QUIRKY: Blythe Jandoo in This is Not Schiehallion
Thus a line-up of 18 British playwrights, commissioned by Pitlochry Theatre’s artistic director Elizabeth Newman — among them Timberlake Wertenbaker, Jo Clifford and Hannah Khalil — are producing weekly audio dramas, podcasts and short films performed by members of the theatre’s summer season’s ensemble.
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