International
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MusicOh, FFS: A Q&A with Alex Kapranos
Alex Kapranos used to listen to second-hand Sparks records while living in a grim pre-trendy Finnieston flat. Now the Franz Ferdinand frontman is making records with the Californian group under the name FFS. This is the full transcript of our interview. Read more »| 21 Aug 2015 -
InternationalThe Encounter @ EICC, 16 Aug
Performed and directed by Simon McBurney of Complicite, The Encounter is an astounding, immersive show. Read more »| 20 Aug 2015 -
InternationalAntigone @ King's Theatre
Can a film star be an automatic success on the stage? Juliette Binoche's performance suggests not. Read more »| 13 Aug 2015 -
InternationalThe Last Hotel @ The Royal Lyceum Theatre
A stunning new opera with the taboo-breaking subject of assisted suicide, The Last Hotel will surely become a classic of our times. It has bleak vision but i... Read more »| 12 Aug 2015 -
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Sylvie Guillem: Life in Progress @ Festival Theatre
Subtle, intelligent, playful and moving, Life in Progress exemplifies Sylvie Guillem’s attitude through the 39 years of her dance career: balancin... Read more »| 11 Aug 2015 -
Festivals
Love Letter to Theatre: Stewart Laing interviewed
Stewart Laing discusses Paul Bright's Confessions of a Justified Sinner, reinvention and theatre about theatre at the EIF Read more »| 11 Aug 2015
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Festivals
Fergus Linehan: The Eclectic International
Fergus Linehan is changing up the Edinburgh International Festival – we chat to him about why and look at the diversity of his programme Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
International
The National & Arcade Fire members join Edinburgh International Festival
Richard Reed Parry of Arcade Fire and The National guitarist Bryce Dessner will perform alongside the Scottish Chamber Orchestra as part of this year’s... Read more »| 13 Jul 2015 -
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Traversing the Fringe
With Traverse Theatre's Fringe programme launching this week, we ask artistic director Orla O'Loughlin for an overview of what's in store Read more »| 03 Jun 2015 -
International
Edinburgh International Festival unveils 2015 programme
The programme for the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival has been revealed, with a host of world premieres and one-offs planned across theatre, dance and ... Read more »| 18 Mar 2015 -
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Handspring Puppet Theatre: Puppetry of Apartheid
As part of the Edinburgh International Festival, Handspring Puppet Company bring together multimedia, puppetry and acting to present a show about betrayal and apartheid Read more »| 30 Jul 2014 -
InternationalEdinburgh International Festival's Jonathan Mills announces 2014 programme
A look at the highlights of this year's Edinburgh International Festival, announced today, featuring theatre, opera, music, film and events, with comments from departing Festival Director Jonathan Mills Read more »| 18 Mar 2014 -
International
L.O.V.E. @ Assembly Roxy
S.E.X. - not L.O.V.E. - should be the title of this frenzied revival of a piece which was a physical theatre landmark in 1993, originally choreographed... Read more »| 19 Sep 2013 -
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Don Quichotte du Trocadéro @ Festival Theatre
A video of Don Quichotte riding a horse and later a donkey on a platform of the Paris Metro whilst a bemused gentleman watches (who later turns out to be Ce... Read more »| 19 Sep 2013 -
International
Heads Up @ Dance Base
Heads Up is a smorgsbord of delights over 3 days, each day a new, last-minute programme of extracts of what's on at Dance Base, but also a cornucopia of... Read more »| 19 Sep 2013