There’s that one summer where hopscotch gets left behind, the football gathers dust in the corner and when exploring sexuality or alcohol become way more important than school exams. In Mayford Road’s production of D C Jackson’splay The Wall acrobatic verbal dissent between four teenagers breaks up the syrup of summer holiday boredom, and a […]
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Land of our Fathers at Trafalgar Transformed
“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 […]
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 […]