Jackie Kay
Book Festival 2025 round-up: One
Performances and performers in the first week at the Futures Institute
The Book Festival seems thoroughly at home in its second year at the Futures Institute. The simple act of moving the entrance a few yards towards Middle Meadow Walk, together with vastly improved outside catering, has created much more of a buzz around the site.
Book Festival: Final round-up
Performance and discussion at the Futures Institute
The Book Festival closed its first year at the Futures Institute with the normal eclectic mix of events. The centrepiece of the second week as far as performance was concerned had to be Justified Sinner – New Myths. Writer Kirsty Logan, folksinger Kirsty Law and harpist Esther Swift came together for an intriguing combination of story, music and visuals.
Book Festival Round-Up
Hugh Simpson reports
The Edinburgh International Book Festival may this year be missing most of its usual quota of performances that are staged, semi-staged or otherwise theatre-adjacent, but there is still a great deal to entertain and educate.
Lyceum Christmas Tales IX – XII live
★★★★☆ Creative Joy
The final four stories in the Lyceum Christmas Tales, presented live from the theatre, put the seal on what has been an enterprise suffused with goodwill, invention, care and Christmas cheer.
Lyceum’s Live Xmas
Live Shows planned for Christmas:
The Lyceum Theatre has revealed plans for a live family production in December, staged in a dramatically re-shaped auditorium to enhance social distancing.
My Light Shines On: Ghost Light
★★★★☆ Magical:
Ghost Light provides a poignant reminder of what we are all missing in this fallow year of live performance in Edinburgh during August.
BookFest – The Final Whistle
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019 Final Round-up:
The Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019 closed with its customary eclectic selection of events a remarkably prescient glitch and a Playing with Books presentation that showed exactly what such an adaptation can do.
Dear Scotland – Review
✭✭✭✭✩ Portrait of a mindset
Dear Scotland, You are a country of many fine actors, both young and old, a country with many ideas that have to be said and with many people who have the wit to say them. Now the NTS has found a stage on which this to happen.
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