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ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
Powerful depiction of injustice
Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq
Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
Killymuck
Underbelly
Bristo Square
Edinburgh
It’s hard to believe Aoife Lennon didn’t write Killymuck and that she’s not actually called Niamh.
Kat Woods’s mesmerising play begins with Lennon, its sole performer, enacting her birth and ends soon after the death of her father.
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If you only see one show in Edinburgh, make it this one urges EWAN CAMERON
At the Edinburgh Fringe, MATTHEW HAWKINS reviews eight shows in a single day in one venue, all of which reward the spectator
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
PAUL FOLEY revels in the coolest, most joyful piece of theatre you’ll get this summer