Head Arts Editor for Edinburgh
‘My Fair Lady’ is the musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s 1912 play ‘Pygmalion’. Set in Edwardian London, it follows the metamorphosis of a coarse young guttersnipe into a charming young lady through the guidance of a distinguished but provocative phonetician.
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Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman’s Shakespeare In Love is a witty film that is somewhat disproportionately responsible for my love for Shakespeare. Lee Hall’s stage adaptation is the most meta […]
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‘Inspire’ is the product of a series of workshops, offered by WHALE Arts in collaboration with Dance Ihayami, in celebration of different types of Indian dance. The project brought together […]
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My expectations for this play, and this particular adaptation, were deftly annihilated within the opening scene where they shall remain in tatters. From the very first instant until the final […]
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I must confess to having neither attended an all-inclusive holiday, nor watched the television series Benidorm, which arguably means I was not the intended audience for Derren Litten’s stage adaptation […]
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Rachel Wagstaff’s stage adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’ novel Birdsong was performed at the West End in 2010, and first toured in 2013. Yet when telling people I was going to see […]
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