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Late comic opera at the centre of latest student collaboration »

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Now in its seventh successive year, the prestigious and much coveted collaboration between the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly known as the RSAMD) and Scottish Opera has come to define the Winter season for students. A selection of the fines...

Mon 06 Feb 2012 by Ottavia Elisabetta Miorelli | Read more »

Waltz With Bashir »

Waltz Withe Bashir

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Waltz with Bashir is an animated documentary, a potent exploration of director Ari Folman's own experience of war. It's told as he tries to piece together his fractured memories of the major Israeli incursion into Lebanon in 1982. Waltz with Bashir is ...

Mon 06 Feb 2012 by Anna Hafsteinsson | Read more »

Chico & Rita »

Chico & Rita

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In 2008 Mark Kermode called Chico & Rita 'One of the 10 best films of the year' and with its cracking soundtrack and charming visual aesthetic it's not too hard to see why. Talented Spanish director Fernando Trueba invokes the tradition of the...

Mon 06 Feb 2012 by Anna Hafsteinsson | Read more »

Hamletmachine »

Hamletmachine

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The Traverse Theatre’s annual visual theatre festival, Manipulate, is always a highlight in its Spring/Summer season and this year promises to be no different. The festival's opening production is Heiner Muller’s Hamletmachine, performed by...

Mon 06 Feb 2012 by Kate Adams | Read more »

Plucked...A True Fairy Tale »

Plucked...A True Fairy Tale

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Director Liz Walker’s work has been challenging the British audiences perception of puppetry since she co-founded Optic Theatre Company in 1987. Her work today continues to do so as she brings us Plucked...A True Fairy Story a charming tale deliv...

Mon 06 Feb 2012 by Kate Adams | Read more »

The Builders »

The Builders

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Plutot La Vie’s The Builders is a deliciously dark comedy that delves into today’s obsession with home improvement and makes a number of comments on our seemingly insatiable thirst for the material. Written by Line Knutzon, the play follows...

Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Anna Hafsteinsson | Read more »

The Sleeping Beauty »

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Ashley Page, the Artistic Director and Choreographer of Scottish Ballet, has a penchant for politicising the classics and with a century-wide chasm written into The Sleeping Beauty, it's something he's been unable to resist. Princess Aurora's (Claire ...

Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Sean Watson | Read more »

The Infamous Brothers Davenport »

The Infamous Brothers Davenport

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The Royal Lyceum Theatre, in collaboration with the Glasgow based Vox Motus present the world premier of The Infamous Brothers Davenport. The play, written by Peter Arnott, directed by Candice Edmunds and Jamie Harrison, escorts the audience on a journ...

Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Francesca Parker | Read more »

Betrothal in a Monastery »

Scottish Opera's collaborations with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (the artist-school formerly known as the RSAMD) now enter their seventh year, and despite the déjà vu familiarity of yet another mediocre Prokofiev opera, the p...

Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Jonathan Goat | Read more »

The King and I »

The King and I

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Leicester Theatre Trust brings the breathtaking Rogers and Hammerstein musical; The King and I to the Edinburgh Festival theatre. Directed by Paul Kerryson, the musical exceeds all possible expectations and was a delight to behold during the Christmas ...

Wed 18 Jan 2012 by Francesca Parker | Read more »

Nutcracker! »

Nutcracker!

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Matthew Bourne is a director and choreographer who has made his name from reinterpreting the classics; from his all-male Swan Lake to a present-day Sleeping Beauty. The winner of Tonys and Oliviers, his productions are not only popular but have won cri...

Wed 18 Jan 2012 by Sean Watson | Read more »

Beauty and The Beast »

Beauty and The Beast

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When Beauty (Ruth Milne) and Martin (Andrew Rothney) meet, it’s love at first sight; but when the evil witch Crackjaw (Angela Clerkin) banishes him, Beauty begins a journey that leads her to the palace of a mysterious, magical and lonely Beast, w...

Wed 18 Jan 2012 by Charles Tyrer | Read more »

Declarations »

Declarations

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Celebrating their 30th year this month, Phoenix Dance Theatre presents a mixed-repertory programme spanning that history, and confirming their place among the uppermost in the ranks of medium-sized contemporary companies. Declarations is aptly named; ...

Wed 18 Jan 2012 by Sean Watson | Read more »

Miranda »

Miranda

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Tonight Company Chordelia bring their blend of modern ballet and theatre to a new work: Miranda. The piece was conceived by founder and Artistic Director Kally Lloyd-Jones, who also dances the title role. Beautifully staged, there is much to admire her...

Wed 18 Jan 2012 by Sean Watson | Read more »

The Tree of Knowledge »

The Tree of Knowledge

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Commissioned by the Traverse Theatre and written by Jo Clifford while she was a Creative Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, The Tree of Knowledge offers a fresh and insightful treatment of Enli...

Wed 18 Jan 2012 by Sophie Stephenson | Read more »

Gormenghast »

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Down a winding lane just off the Royal Mile, hidden in the heart of Edinburgh, a gothic church has been transformed into the world of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast by alternative student theatre company Paradok. The stage version of Peake’s p...

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Rebecca Tamas | Read more »

Edinburgh Gang Show »

Edinburgh Gang Show

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After having been performed at the King's Theatre Edinburgh since 1959, the Edinburgh Gang Show this November celebrates its 52nd anniversary. With a cast comprising of over 200 Scout members and performances ranging from a variety of dance styles to ...

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Francesca Parker | Read more »

French contemporary artist makes trip to Glasgow »

In the wake of her highly successful exhibition 'The Power Structures, Rituals and Sexuality of the European Shorthand Typists' two years ago, which has travelled all over Europe, French contemporary artist Lili Reynaud-Dewar and her works are returnin...

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Ottavia Elisabetta Miorelli | Read more »

Theatre veteran has Scot it all »

Dave Anderson has worked as an actor, playwright, song-writer and musical director for a range of Scottish theatres with television appearances including BBC sitcom City Lights and crime drama Taggart. The Journal met up with Dave Anderson to discuss ...

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Katharina Dziacko | Read more »

One Man, Two Guvnors »

James Corden as Francis Henshall

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The critically acclaimed masterpiece, One Man, Two Guvnors written by Richard Bean and directed by Nicholas Hytner came to the Kings Theatre, Edinburgh. Based on the Goldoni classic; The Servant of Two Masters, Bean transforms the comedy into a side-sp...

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Francesca Parker | Read more »

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