If every teenager were to be given a copy of Grace Campbell’s Amazing Disgrace, the world would be a far better place for it. In her debut work, Grace has created a powerfully charged memoir that manages to make her personal experiences highly relatable. Grace strips her life bare and fuels this literary outpouring with […]
We all know the familiar family board game Cluedo with its main characters Plum, Scarlett, White, Mustard and Peacock. Whodunit and with what weapon we ask ourselves! The fifth-year Medic Musical Cluedoc took this framework to new heights as it moved the action into the operating theatre. The focal victim: Doctor Body. The story follows […]
From the punchy opening number, the musical American Idiot takes the audience on an unexpected exploration of the American youth’s identity in the form of three friends, Johnny (Tom Milner), Will (Samuel Pope) and Tunny (Joshua Dowen). Their aim is to break free from a suffocating suburban lifestyle and the restrictions of their families. American […]
Joyce Cairns, an Edinburgh-born painter, has been elected as the first female president of the Royal Scottish Academy in 192 years. She brings to the role a wealth of experience and knowledge that comes from her career as a teacher, an exhibitor and an artist, as well as a supporter of emerging talent. It is […]
REFRESH is the product of a collective of six artists who all graduated from Gray’s School of Art. It is their second exhibition that they have constructed together. It demonstrates how artists with the same training, who have followed the same path, can each approach a diverse range of materials from a ‘fresh’ and new […]
Content warning: Contains dialogue on abusive relationships, assault and abortion So: a foetus, a cougar, a camera girl, a drag queen and a victim walk into a bar… this is the line used to describe She Can’t Half Talk, a series of all-femme monologues by the Edinburgh University Theatre Company, and it perfectly encapsulates the […]
Over the years people have created set ideas on the format of an exhibition; a one-way viewing perspective. The immersive experience that is Chronicles, put together as a collaboration between Project X Dance and the National Museum of Scotland, completely overturns this idea of simply viewing a work of art. Instead, the viewer becomes an […]