Browsing: Edinburgh

She has been given 60 minutes out of her audience’s day and Kate Ireland won’t waste them, she promises. Her show riffs on the Friday afternoon…

If you ever need an extended metaphor, just ask Indra Wilson. In a feat of sustained poetic imagination, the playwright describes pregnancy – and pregnancy loss…

For Helen Walsh, place comes first.  “Place is always my starting point. It’s an active force that shapes and informs our identities right throughout our lives,”…

This is a one-to-one show that requires you to get up-close to its sole performer, Oliver Ayres. He leads you in, puts you at ease, and…

In April, comedian Jena Friedman had a strange encounter in Vancouver airport. She had just performed a Ted talk about the future of comedy and was…

It is the greatest duet, performed solo. Ventriloquism acts became a popular entertainment in the 18th century and have flickered in and out of favour ever…

The University of Edinburgh has released a report examining its 400-year history and its connections to slavery, colonialism and the development of scientific racism.The Guardian’s Scotland…

U.K.-French sales-production outfit Alief has boarded world sales rights to “Low Rider,” the sophomore narrative feature from “Stud Life” director Campbell X. The news comes ahead…

For Tommy J Curry the question about Edinburgh University’s institutional racism, or its debts around transatlantic slavery and scientific racism, can be captured by one simple…

Jewish leaders have urged the University of Edinburgh to uphold a controversial definition of antisemitism after the institution revealed it was reviewing its support for it.The…