1+ week, 5+ day ago   (305+ words) If you think you know the Scottish play, think again. In ‘Mrs Macbeth,’ Shakespeare’s tale of treason and treachery is retold through the eyes and ears of Lady Macbeth’s loyal Gentlewoman, a minor character in the sleepwalking scene, Act V,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (80+ words) The journey shows Miriam through a journey of impending loss, grief and guilt. She asks the question all parents ask when their children go down the wrong path: ‘What did I do wrong?’ It's a powerful, heart-rending and haunting portrayal…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (66+ words) While the show carries a 14+ warning for some sharper language, the overarching tone remains warm, intellectual, funny and deeply relatable. A particular highlight is Bilston’s politically astute questioning of what could be worse than a bad poem—and how we…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (70+ words) Mina Liccione is a New York comedian / dancer who moved to Dubai and encountered all forms ‘cultural mishaps, decolonisation, and discovering the Habibi way’! She has foundered Dubomedy - a school for comedy and played a major role in developing the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (351+ words) As Lyudmila emerges from a hazmat suit, so does her story. Vines cover the chairs and table in her abandoned Pripyat home. She moves them aside, sits quietly, pensively, and with delicate movements puts her wedding ring back on. Then…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (414+ words) Atticwife dives headfirst with a scathing look into the problematically popular “trad-wife” phenomenon in which primarily (young, white) women are eschewing careers, education, and often their own friends and family in order to serve and submit to their husbands - and…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (249+ words) EdinburghGuide.com Dickens: The Readings, Assembly George Square Studios, Review Charles Dickens, in the final years of his life, enjoyed giving performed readings of his work, touring around the country. These were edited down versions of his books and stories,…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (314+ words) Across the UK since the lockdown, there has been a 350% increase in Book Club listings with more than 127,000 members getting together over their shared love of the written word. The rise in popularity is based on the need for personal…...

4+ week, 18+ min ago   (345+ words) It takes a special kind of writing and performance to have someone laughing while they’re crying multiple times throughout your show - clearly, that is who Destiny Faith Nelson is as a storyteller. To put it plainly, this is a show…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (430+ words) EdinburghGuide.com One Man Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart and The Pit and the Pendulum, Greenside @ Riddle's Court, Review There is truly no one who is more Poe than Stephen Smith, except perhaps for Edgar Allen himself. Smith uses the original…...