“You don’t want to become an artist, it’s a miserable existence”, says one grime-covered miner to the other. After an electrical explosion they’re trapped over a thousand feet under ground. They’re running out of food and water. “Miserable”, agrees the other. “Look at Van Gogh.” A beat. “Wanker.” Banter in spite of desperation that’s what […]
Author archives: annegret
Quiet Pop-Up Revolution
Just two people having a conversation, no props, no set – Duncan Macmillan’s Lungs is clever (life-altering discussions in IKEA-clever), funny (rambling, self-interrupting monologues with ecological self-awareness funny) conversations in the plural and I’m utterly absorbed in the quick to-and-fro, the quips and all the linguistic intricacies of Macmillan’s writing. I’m sitting in the Roundabout, […]
According To His Need at C Nova (Edinburgh Fringe)
Bachelor infiltrates socialist party to get laid in this Edinburgh Festival Fringe production. Show me yours, I’ll show you mine: relationships as transactions are not a new idea and sex often plays a crucial role when partners negotiate their needs. In According To His Need, hobby socialist Nick joins the party to finally score again. […]
Symphony at Assembly George Square
You don’t have to be a Londoner to get nabakov’s Symphony but if you are, then in between the lines, beats and off-beats of the drum the piece shares a knowing wink that talks of take-away coffee and unlikely beauty among unrelenting hectic. Although there is a different kind of electricity in the air, at […]