‘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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The Monstrous Heart – Traverse Theatre
Somewhere in Canada, a blizzard is raging outside and Mag receives an unexpected visit from her estranged daughter, Beth. Animalistic and unpredictable, Beth storms her way back into her mother’s […]
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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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The Panopticon – Traverse Theatre
Jenni Fagan’s The Panopticon is unmissable in its new translation to the stage at the Traverse Theatre. In a dystopian-esque setting, we meet Anaïs Hendricks having just been returned to the custody of her latest care home by a less-than-friendly police officer.
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Love Song to Lavender Menace – Lyceum
Love Song to Lavender Menace is a heart-warming tribute to ‘Lavender Menace’, a real-life lesbian, gay and radical feminist bookshop which opened on Edinburgh’s Forth Street in 1982, against the backdrop of Thatcher’s homophobic reign and subsequent underground queer publishing.
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An Inspector Calls – King’s Theatre
An Inspector Calls is a play that will remind many British 20-somethings of their A-Level English Literature classes. Mine was unusual, however, in that we didn’t study this play – but I heard many of my friends lamenting over it!
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