Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Death at their finger tips
GORDON PARSONS falls head over heels with a production that dazzles with its nanotechnology
Cold Blood
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
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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
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Cold Blood
Kings Theatre
Edinburgh International Festival
★★★★★
Is it theatre, film, ballet or do we have to coin a new term?
Whatever we call it, Cold Blood will never allow audiences to look at their hands in the same way again.
Film-maker Jaco Van Dormael and choreographer Michele Anne De Mey have collaborated to produce what must rate as one of the highlights of Edinburgh’s artfest.
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