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Cabaret – Festival Theatre

13th November 2019

Cabaret is set in Berlin in 1931 in the underworld of clubs, particularly, The Kit […]

The Drift is a spoken word piece written and performed by Hannah Lavery. It gorgeously asserts the active nature of history in Scotland today. In 2014, Lavery’s father died just when they were starting to talk after a period of estrangement. In The Drift, Lavery explores how her uncertain relationship with her father informed and defined her relationship with Scotland as a person of ‘mixed’ ethnicity, and how that link is just as important today as it ever was.

Fly Me to the Moon – Traverse Theatre

12th October 2019

‘Fly Me to the Moon’ follows Francis and Loretta, two community care workers who find their elderly charge dead in his bathroom. When they realise they can gain from his death, they delve into morally grey areas.

Cindy Sherman: Early Works, 1975-80 – Stills Gallery

18th September 2019

‘Cindy Sherman: Early Works, 1975-80’ exhibits selected seminal works of the artist and photographer Cindy Sherman. Sherman considers ‘cultural imagination’; specifically, the ways identity is imagined, constructed and represented in the media.

Mental health, archaeology, and representation: in conversation with Ladybones’ Sorcha McCaffrey

18th August 2019

In the wake of her wonderful show Ladybones at the Edinburgh Fringe, I sat down with writer and actor Sorcha McCaffrey. In the comfortably busy downstairs of Black Medicine cafe, we talked representation in theatre, OCD, and how to get your audience to join in.

Bridget Riley: The Royal Scottish Academy at National Galleries Scotland

17th August 2019

This exhibition of Bridget Riley’s work is set in ten rooms of the Royal Scottish Academy. It is ordered mostly chronologically. This collection covers 70 years of Riley’s work, which was produced between the late 1940s and 2019.