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Fringe Reviews: Circa: Wolf, Garry Starr & Ascension

Circa: Wolf is an astonishing, feral acrobatic spectacle, says Frankie Reason. ★★★★ Performers snarl at one another from across the stage, negotiating, imitating one another’s...
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Review, All the Devils Are Here: ‘The violence is graphic and the threat of more never lets up’

Barnaby Roper’s British thriller All the Devils are Here wastes no time in setting its mood: the violence is graphic and the threat of more...
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Edinburgh International Festival: Mary, Queen of Scots, Orpheus and Eurydice & Book of Mountains and Seas

Dramatic, intimate, and visually striking – Sophie Laplane and James Bonas’s brand new ballet, Mary Queen of Scots, is a gothic reimagining of the young...
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The Good Books, Neil Ansell: ‘It was a revelation to discover that nature writing could also be literature’

Neil Ansell on the books of his childhood, the best book he has read this year, and the book that has been his 'north star'...
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Edinburgh Fringe Reviews: Miriam Margolyes, Patrick Monahan & Lorna Rose Treen

Miriam Margolyes is as outrageous as ever in her one-woman show, Margolyes & Dickens: More Best Bits says Frankie Reason.  ★★★★ She doesn’t feel the...
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Rebecca Atkinson-Lord, An Tobar and Mull Theatre: ‘It’s still so important we come together and share stories’

 Artistic Director of An Tobar and Mull Theatre, Rebecca Atkinson-Lord, on island life, how the theatre has changed the lives of many locals and her...


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