Posts Tagged ‘scottish’
National Theatre unveils Dracula and Mina
THE National Theatre of Scotland (NTS) has today unveiled the first look at its production of Dracula: Mina’s Reckoning. The play was written by Morna Pearson and shifts Bram Stoker’s narrative to the North-East. The NTS has assembled an all-female and non-binary cast for the production, which will tour Scotland, Liverpool, and Coventry in September…
Read MoreEdinburgh and Glasgow most expensive student cities
EDINBURGH has topped a league table as the UK’s most expensive city for students for the second year running, with Glasgow in second place. NatWest bank’s student living index, which was published this morning, showed that students in Scotland’s capital have a monthly term-time income of £1,453 – the lowest of all the cities ranked…
Read MoreFringe review: Tending
Jeremy Welch reviews Tending at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Normally when the NHS is mentioned it is conjoined to those that want it restructured, those that want more funding and those that think nurses are saints or not. All this narrative is usually underpinned by entrenched political views. So it was with some nervousness that…
Read MoreFringe reviews: The Greatest Show Songs
Jeremy Welch reviews The Greatest Show Songs at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. On arrival I was expecting a wide age range of attendees but it would seem that this show has a large groupie following of silver haired West End aficionados. It felt slightly like arriving on a SAGA cruise holiday, which was a shame…
Read MoreScottish Smallholder Festival to host pig show
THE Scottish Pig Show will form part of this year’s Scottish Smallholder Festival. The festival is due to take place at the Royal Highland Centre on the outskirts of Edinburgh on 14 October. This year also marks the 50th anniversary of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust (RBST), and so the festival’s organisers hope the “turnout…
Read MoreFringe review: Journey to the West
Megan Amato reviews Journey to the West at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Published during the Ming dynasty, Journey to the West is likely one of the most well-known and celebrated Chinese novels – at least to us outside of China. In fact, there were two adaptations of it at the fringe this year: the first a…
Read MoreWomen’s piping and drumming survey extended
THE National Piping Centre has extended the deadline for women to take part in its survey about their experiences of piping and drumming. The survey, which was launched in April, has received 240 responses so far. The centre has now extended the deadline for submissions until 8 September. News of the extension came as the…
Read MoreFringe review: My Neighbours Are Kind Of Weird
When entering a venue for an hour-long self-proclaimed witty and wry look at millennial culture, with a side salad of hypocrisy and narcissism, one arrives with a heavy heart. One was wrong though. This was a thoroughly enjoyable comedic excursion that fused universally good performances from all five young actors, and some admirably taut script-writing…
Read MoreFringe review: Salty Irina
Jeremy Welch reviews Salty Irina at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The play is set in some non-defined Northern European city where there have been a series of murders, all the murdered are foreigners, all recent immigrants. Irina, played by Yasemin Ozdemir, arrives at her apartment and the steps are steeped in blood, obviously the result…
Read MoreWee beasties: Incredible macro photographs of Scots insects
IT WAS in an unassuming park in Glasgow during lockdown that David Hamilton tried out macro photography for the first time. The photographs are typically close-ups of bugs and flowers, and David found Ruchill Park was the perfect place to snap some tiny, colourful creepy-crawlies. David was blown away by what he found in this…
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