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Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Free Fringe is about artists reasserting control in the face of the creatively asphyxiating, crass commercialisation of Edinburgh Fringe
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
“Have a good Edinburgh!” Strange phrase that, isn’t it, when the name of a city takes on a whole new meaning as an all-embracing life experience.
I mean, no-one’s ever said to me “Have a great Ipswich” or “Have a wonderful Welwyn Garden City…”
Of course, it’s all down to the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, that ever-growing cultural extravaganza which takes over Scotland’s capital city every August, and where your humble narrator is currently doing 10 shows in nine days.
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