Tam Dean Burn
Lost At Sea
★★★★☆ Poignant:
Perth Theatre’s production of Lost At Sea, at the King’s until Wednesday, is emotional, humane and beautifully staged.
Actor Stabbed
Actor Tam Dean Burn Stabbed in Edinburgh:
Leith-born actor Tam Dean Burn has been stabbed, after leaving an event at the Scottish Poetry Library in Crichton’s Close on the Canongate.
The Hard Man
Rehearsed reading:
Opening up the scope of the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s retrospective on noted Scottish polymath Tom McGrath, the staged script reading of his 1977 play The Hard Man sits perfectly with McGrath’s “explorer” image.
Electric Contact – A Jazz Tribute to Tom McGrath
★★★★★ Explored:
Three Thomases – Tom, Tommie and Tam – got the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s retrospective tribute to the late, great Tom McGrath off to a belter of a start on Friday night.
EIFF Features McGrath
Theatre element to Film Festival:
The Edinburgh International Film Festival will contain a strong theatre element as one of its Future is History strands looks at the work of poet, playwright and all-round maverick, Tom McGrath.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
★★★★☆ Wonderful:
While not specifically Christmassy, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland at the Lyceum proves an ideal fit for the festive season. Hugely colourful, funny, and fascinating, it is thoroughly involving and a little disorienting.
Book Fest Round-up
Words from Charlotte Square Gardens
Things theatrical at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
In recent years the Book festival has made a definite effort to engage with the more theatrical side of things
Milk
★★☆☆☆ Disconnected:
The premiere of Ross Dunsmore’s Milk at the Traverse is well acted and carefully staged. However, it never overcomes an unsatisfactory construction.
Blog – Found at Sea
Every bit of Found at Sea is brilliant. This “preview of work in progress” at the Traverse to Saturday, is a succession of shimmering moments and glittering sequences.
EdFringe Day 1 – Get in there!
An economist, an old comic, some love letters and the blind By Thom Dibdin The sun still shines even though the Edinburgh Fringe is now officially open. Surely some mistake? Equally sure, is the prediction that it won’t last. Today is time to check out a couple of new venues – or old ones reinvented. […]
