Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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TheatrePlay Pie and a Pint: Doras Dùinte (Closed Door) @ Òran Mór
The ever changing power balance between the leads makes for interesting viewing in Catrìona Lexy Chaimbeul’s new play Doras Dùinte, ... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
TheatrePlay Pie and a Pint: Grave Undertaking @ Òran Mór
Fire and pyre make a good rhyming pair but Paddy Cunneen’s Grave Undertaking also includes a singing corpse who rhymes pride with formaldehyd... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
TheatrePlay Pie and a Pint: Saint One @ Oran Mor
It’s an unbeatable premise. One of Scotland’s favourite actresses takes on the Big Yin himself. Oh and it’s set in a ... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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The Gates @ Classic Grand
Described – quite rightly – as a mixture of West Side Story and Cabaret, The Gates is Rachel Jury’s musical based on the controversial bar ... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
TheatreCured @ The Arches
Stef Smith’s latest play tackles the idea of conversion therapy. While very prominent in the US at one point in time, the 'ex-gay' movement has never s... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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Play, Pie and a Pint: The Deficit Show @ Oran Mor
If OTT were running for parliament, they would win my vote. Perfectly pitched in tone and note, their new production The Deficit Show is both enter... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013
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Theatre
True West @ Citizens Theatre
Domestic in content it may be but Sam Shepard’s emotionally charged tale about an American family is the stuff of epics. A modern Greek trag... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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The Tailor of Inverness @ Tron
The Tailor of Inverness is the true story of writer and performer Matthew Zajac's father – firstly, with Matthew playing his father telling his own tal... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
Music
Atom Tree – Tide of Thorns EP
The debut EP from Atom Tree, aka producer Shaun Canning, percussionist Michael Robertson, and sometime vocalist and songwriter Fergus Cook, of the band Disco... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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Ubre Blanca – Polygon Mountain EP
Every track on Ubre Blanca's debut EP is a thrill in its own way, but it's the 12-minute epic title track which provides the biggest. The influences –&... Read more »| 11 Nov 2013 -
Film
Media Circus: Adèle Exarchopoulos on Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Amid a flurry of activity before Blue Is the Warmest Colour’s UK premiere, we sit down with its star Adèle Exarchopoulos to discuss this controversial Palme d’Or-winning film and its even more controversial shoot Read more »| 11 Nov 2013 -
Film
Don Jon
In Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Don Jon, the first-time director stars as the beefcake of the title, a cocky stud who has no trouble picking up women, but who stil... Read more »| 11 Nov 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: New Music & Videos | 8 November
New this week: Videos from CHVRCHES, Deltron 3030, These New Puritans, Snoop Dogg, Tricky, Yoko Ono and others; new tracks by Audion, Zomby, Autre Ne Veut, Raekwon and more; plus trailers for Spike Lee's Old Boy remake, and much more! Read more »| 08 Nov 2013 -
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The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 8 November
In this week's Bulletin: Pussy Riot singer goes missing in transit to Siberian prison camp; Dizzee Rascal slams Radio 1; GENERATION celebrates contemporary Scottish art; more Marvel superheroes coming to Netflix; a Gary Numan remix competition and more! Read more »| 08 Nov 2013 -
Music
Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP 2
Perhaps the most disappointing thing about MMLP2 is the (admittedly scant) evidence that as an emcee, Eminem can still spit it hard with the best of the... Read more »| 08 Nov 2013