Rethinking the National Galleries: Ken Currie’s Three Oncologists
As if you just swung through the theatre doors and interrupted them mid-surgery, Ken Currie’s Three Oncologists stare blankly at you. Ghostly and exhausted, their limp and bloody hands morbidly…
An Edinburgh girl’s guide to dressing for the changing seasons
After consecutive days of rainy weather, it’s safe to say that the seasons have turned, and it’s officially autumn in Edinburgh. A city that somehow comes alive in the bleak…
Our haunted city: a guide for the superstitious student
When studying at a University as old as our beloved Edinburgh, you are bound to run into superstitions. I have always considered myself a somewhat superstitious person (I avoid cracks…
What’s not to love about the fringe? Quite a lot, actually.
Now that the Fringe is well and truly behind us, a mere gleam in Edinburgh’s rear-view mirror, I feel comfortable enough to make a confession that has earned me bewildered…
Fringe 2023: Louise Young: Feral
Louise Young is a confident and natural comedian whose debut stand up hour feels extremely fresh and covers a real range of topics in a sensitive and humorous way. She…
Fringe 2023: Pitch
If you’d told me a month ago that I would be going to watch a play entirely about football, I wouldn’t have believed it. But like so many people, I…
Fringe 2023: Antonio!
Antonio! is an extremely high energy, surprisingly brilliant romp around several Shakespeare plays including Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing. Why ‘brilliant romp’? Why these plays? Well, Antonio! is…
EIFF 2023 – Silent Roar: Review
“Hellfire, sex, and youth” are the three words Louis McCartney and Ella Lily Hyland used to describe Silent Roar at its red-carpet premier at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. It’s…
