‘Barber Shop Chronicles’ examines the role of the barber shop in the lives of African men. It portrays barber shops as ‘like a pub’ to them. One character explains that […]
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Author: James Sullivan
The Drift – Traverse Theatre
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.
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Fly Me to the Moon – Traverse Theatre
‘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.
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Clybourne Park – Traverse Theatre
‘Clybourne Park’ is an incisive look how racial ideas manifest in unexpected areas. Act I is set in 1959, and Act 2 in 2009. Both play out in the same house in Chicago. The catalyst is when Bev and Russ, a white couple, sell their house in 1959. Soon, they discover the house was sold to a black couple
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Cindy Sherman: Early Works, 1975-80 – Stills Gallery
‘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.
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if mouth could speak – Edinburgh Fringe
When I saw ‘if mouth could speak’ I could hardly believe what I was seeing. It is beyond excellent.
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