https://youtu.be/mpvd4WMHgF0 Vedere Te (1322) by Noemi Piva (Italy)Q-Fforia by Oran Longmuir (Scotland) & Angharad Jones (Wales)Meohadim by Jacob Gomez (Spain)I Can See Us by Daniel Lukehurst (England) Review by Marina Funcasta ★★★★ As far as popular culture is concerned, contemporary dance struggles to detach itself from the likes of Maddie Ziegler and Sia; derelict spaces filled with grey mist … Continue reading Review: Innovations Contemporary Dance Platform – The Studio, Edinburgh
Written by J B Priestley Directed by Martin Foreman Review by Marina Funcasta Tickets from £12.00 ★★★ Opening to an Edwardian drawing room, it is hard to expect anything else from a J.B. Priestley ‘Time Play’. Scorched into imaginations thanks to English GCSE, the deceptive ease of his nostalgic sensationalism is widely acknowledged. And yet, … Continue reading Review: Dangerous Corner – The Assemby Roxy, Edinburgh
Written by Willy Russell Directed by Bob Thomson Review by Marina Funcasta Tickets from £13.00 ★★★ For a play that is all about the perils of nostalgia, Bob Tomson’s touring production of 'Blood Brothers' felt painfully relevant: framed throughout by two council estates, there is no attempt to dampen down the bleak series of events … Continue reading Review: Blood Brothers – The Edinburgh Playhouse
