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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TheatreMarriage of Figaro @ Lyceum
The Lyceum’s new adaptation of The Marriage of Figaro relocates Pierre Beaumarchais’ 1778 French original to the heated atmosphere of the boardroom. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
TheatreCould You Please Look Into The Camera @ Oran Mor
Mohammed Al Attar has seen more than most, having previously documented the testimonies of detainees.He returns to this theme for the first play in the five week season from the Arab nation, Could You Please Look Into The Camera. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
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Eight @ The 13th Note
A set of monologues in which eight strange and wonderful individuals lay bare their inner environments to express their feelings. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
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The Silence Of Bees @ Lush
Spanning three generations of one family, The Silence Of Bees is a site-specific production held in the soapy confines of the Lush store in Sauchiehall Street. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
TheatreNederlands Dans Theater 2 @ EFT
Popular dance company NDT2 perform to enraptured audiences at Edinburgh's Festival Theatre. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
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Long Day’s Journey Into Night @ Theatre Royal
Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer winning autobiographical play charts the slow, slow destruction of a family as they tear each apart from the inside. Read more »| 11 May 2012
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TheatreDance Maximus @ Buzzcut
Dance Maximus are coming for you, your brothers and sisters - and your firstborn. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
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IAM @ Tramway
IAM captures music, movement and moments of magic. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
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Goddess @ The Storytelling Centre
“The earth is trembling with the promise of a new wave,” announce three actresses. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
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Cancer Sucks: The Honest Death of Tutu the Feminist Performance Artist
Stephanie Torrance looks at how feminist artists are dealing with breast cancer. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
Music
Holy Mountain / Happy Particles / Body Parts @ Mono, 5 May
From the divine to the ridiculously heavy, as Holy Mountain kick out jams straddling the vintage and the envelope-pushing. Read more »| 10 May 2012 -
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Nasty P – Story So Far
Story So Far by Nasty P is a cohesive, satisfying collection of hip-hop cuts aimed squarely at the dancefloor. Read more »| 10 May 2012 -
Film
The Raid
Unlikely pairings can be perfect. Indonesian film The Raid centres around a police bust in a large tower block filled with criminals, guns, and machetes; unl... Read more »| 10 May 2012 -
Music
King Tuff – King Tuff
Even if this brand of finely tuned garage rock is not entirely groundbreaking, and the infectious vocal hooks on each track are largely some variation on c... Read more »| 09 May 2012 -
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Cornershop – Urban Turban
Cornershop have been releasing records for more than 20 years but are still bizarrely viewed in some quarters as one-hit-wonders. It's an entirely undeserv... Read more »| 09 May 2012