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Slapping the creative wrist
The complete text of Fiona Hyslop, Culture Secretary’s, letter to the chair of Creative Scotland’s board, Sir Sandy Crombie, urging CS to listen to the sector.
The Case of the Disappearing Illusion
Edinburgh Magic Festival was launched this morning with the festival’s Artistic Director dressed up as a lepidopterist in front of a huge black curtain at Lothian Buses’ main bus depot. But in his effort to make a bus disappear, he forgot that you have to make it appear first for your audience to be impressed.
Happy Birthday Mister Burns and the birth of the Veggie Haggis
On veggie haggis and smart-phone apps for Burns Night By Thom Dibdin I love Burns Night and the whole idea of a day that doesn’t just commemorate poetry, but celebrates the performance of poetry and its reading aloud in public. There are plenty of things happening around town tonight, from the Brunton’s Rantin’, Rovin’, Robin’ […]
No Edinburgh Filth for McAvoy
Welsh’s Filth starts shooting in Glasgow By Thom Dibdin Glasgow is being used, once again, as the main location for a film adaptation of an Edinburgh-set Irvine Welsh novel, as principal photography begins there on Filth, staring James McAvoy as a racist, homophobic policeman. Trainspotting was largely filmed in Glasgow, the famous opening sequence along […]
The Thistle Has Landed
NTS Staging the Nation political theatre event at Holyrood By Thom Dibdin Staging the Nation, the National Theatre of Scotland’s road show talking shop, arrived back in Edinburgh this week with all guns blazing, to prove that political theatre is alive and well and quite capable of pricking against the kicks in Scotland. Staged in […]
Adapting on the Edinburgh Fringe: Day Four…
Ninjas, Overcoats, Splindid Isolation and Continental Quilts By Thom Dibdin One of the great sights of Edinburgh during the fringe is seeing the kids going home from play. Groups of families wandering away from the centre with gaggles of youngsters still high from the joys of their day. That doesn’t happen in the rain, however. […]
Laughing around the Edinburgh Fringe: Day Three…
Futureproof, Comedy lunch, Sans Hotel and the World According to Bertie By Thom Dibdin Edinburgh was laughing on Sunday. It laughed in the rain, still streaming down, it laughed with the comedy mob, it laughed with the locals and with the visitors and it reserved its biggest laugh for the theatre. It was the day […]
Splashing about on the Edinburgh Fringe: Day two…
Imprints, Turandot, Snails, Ketchup, Bawbees, Ducats and rain. By Thom Dibdin So much rain can’t be good for you! And just to prove the point, day two of the Edinburgh Fringe saw me jumping about all over the shop, from dance to subverted opera, choreographed rope-work to Commedia Dell’Arte. The foray into the world of […]
Oot-Aboot the Fringe: Day One…
Apps, Happiness, Casablanca and The Chess Game By Thom Dibdin Start it up and lets go! Day One of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe dawned bright and clear. No monsoon, no rain, just a crisp morning with light wind and sunny skies. A perfect day for a play called Happiness, it would seem, at a sparkling […]
