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ReviewsJerk @ Traverse
Puppets are violent things, as any British audience must surely be aware, having been raised on the slapstick of Punch and Judy and the domestic dramas of So... Read more »| 09 Feb 2011 -
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Festival Column: Fort William Mountain Festival 2011
With the winters we’ve been having, who hasn’t plodded and stumbled along in the vast tranches of the white stuff and thought “I could real... Read more »| 04 Feb 2011 -
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Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival: Performance. Strings. Death. Despair. Puppets
Manipulate returns to Edinburgh in February with a celebration of puppetry and visual theatre Read more »| 11 Jan 2011 -
Festival GuideFestival Watch: Vikings @ Up Helly Aa
Ah, the Vikings and their renown as history's most hirsute bunch of raping, pillaging murderers. Well, perhaps not. Recent research from some cardigan and co... Read more »| 03 Dec 2010 -
Festival GuideArches Live – Friday 24th September
Fiction writing’s just therapy isn’t it? It’s all just self-justifying interior monologue dressed up as social commentary, of more utility ... Read more »| 06 Oct 2010 -
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Arches Live Friday 17 September
As a man with strong feelings about superfluous punctuation, Not_With (Music) did not immediately endear itself to me. But I like a good sound installat... Read more »| 24 Sep 2010
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Arches Live Saturday
Having explored my own inner demons on Friday night – it appears that I can appear on stage without staining either the chair or my trousers too heavil... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010 -
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Arches Live!
Sarah Hopfinger struggles to escape her past in Away Into the Night. It's an autobiographical piece about letting go of "twenty-two years of... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010 -
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Comic Book Guy: The Forgotten Festival
Amongst the jokers, the jugglers, the off-beat Hemingway and the am-dram society trying to make their mark, there is still more to be found in Edinburgh duri... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010 -
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Circus Maximus
Once again, The Arches grabs the attention by going weird and wonderful, while leading a Surge into the streets of The Merchant City Read more »| 02 Jul 2010 -
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Heaps of Fun
If the Jamaican Bobsleigh Team has taught us anything it’s that even the sun can’t stop the Winter Olympics. In Heap and Pebble two athletes are determined to prove this once more by bringing figure skating to a world left iceless by global warming. Read more »| 05 May 2010 -
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Life During Wartime
With the election looming, Scottish theatre seems to have rediscovered politics, albeit in a more personal manner Read more »| 02 May 2010 -
Festival GuideWeird Science
The Edinburgh International Science Festival raises the city's IQ for two weeks of nerd awesomeness Read more »| 26 Mar 2010 -
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Arches Live! - Music as a force in theatre
Once regarded as 'the twelfth best club in the world', the Arches' status as a world class music venue is hard to ignore. And music is a dominant force in mu... Read more »| 07 Oct 2009 -
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Merchant City Festival
Glasgow hits back to claim the Festival City tag. Read more »| 11 Sep 2009