A podcast about a grown man reading a series of children’s novels for the first time”. Given that the series in question is, you guessed it, Harry Potter, this concept is mouthwatering to Potterheads. Possibly even a mild intoxicant. Each week, host Mike Schubert gives listeners a breakdown of a few chapters, including a summary […]
All the audience knows as they queue in the Traverse’s atmospheric underground bar is that they are going to see an actor tackle a script thus far unseen to him. Each day of the festival, a different actor takes on the challenge so as to maintain the unseen element of the premise. This is one […]
The undoing of Some Kind of Theatre’s take on Shakespeare’s Roman tragedy takes place before cast or audience even enter the typically dingy Free Fringe room in which the play is staged. The problem lies not in the acting, the costumes, or even the charmingly homemade set, but in the skull-and-crossbones artwork and exclamatory addition […]
Why, The Student, are you reviewing a non-fiction book that was released 17 years ago?’ you may ask. Because, dear reader, it was adapted into a Johnny Depp-starring blockbuster 18 months back, and has consequently and predictably been re-released with a swanky new cover. In case the film passed you by, here’s the plot in […]
Listen up, bookworms! Book Week Scotland, a weeklong celebration of everything literary, is running between 21 November and 27 November. Both citywide and nationwide, the festival is packed to the brim with events numbering well into the hundreds. Here is a condensed list of the top 10 unmissable events taking place in Edinburgh. 1. Scotland: […]
Johannesburg-born Brit Deborah Levy is no stranger to the Man Booker shortlist, having found her way there with 2013’s Swimming Home. Twice a shortlister and also bookies’ favourite, Hot Milk isn’t a bad way to celebrate her thirty-fifth year as a writer. It’s fair to say she’s found her place in the world. Twenty-something Sofia […]