sun 21/09/2025

Edinburgh

Midsummer, Soho Theatre

Midsummer: Cora Bissett and Matthew Pidgeon are superb as the mismatched lovers in David Greig's play, set in Edinburgh

David Greig’s delightful Midsummer (a play with songs), opened at the Traverse in Edinburgh in 2008, was revived for last year’s Fringe and now provides a warming tonic for frozen winter nights in London. A knowing, modern romcom about two...

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Don't Mention the RBS in Edinburgh

It was a month before Christmas and I was watching venerable folkies the Battlefield Band at Edinburgh’s Queen’s Hall. Halfway through their set they played “Robber Barons”, a new song about the nefarious medieval practice of German feudal lords...

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Kim Noble, Soho Theatre

Kim Noble: a funny, disturbing and strikingly original show

‘'You must see this show!” “You must not go to this show!” Faced with those exhortations from friends and colleagues who had already seen (and been quite shocked by) it, I of course go to Kim Noble Will Die at the Soho Theatre. I was trepidatious...

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LAU, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

While we’re busy falling over ourselves in the rush to laud the latest beard-and-guitar export from Wisconsin tundra or Williamsburg tenement, it’s easier than ever to undervalue home-grown talent. Lau formed in 2006, a coming together of three...

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The Stefan Golaszewski Plays, Bush Theatre

Passion, pain and loss: they are companions in life more faithful than many a lover. This duo of solo dramas by Stefan Golaszewski, which opened last night in London after success in Edinburgh, turns its perceptive gaze upon them through the eyes of...

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Suzanne Farrell and George Balanchine: A passionate love letter re-opened

"It was more than just 'I love you'," Suzanne Farrell, America's nonpareil ballerina, the love and inspiration of 20th-century ballet's greatest choreographer, is telling me at breakfast in a little bar in Lee, Massachusetts. "When people ask me to...

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