Theatre
Simon Munnery: Standing Still at The Stand
As the neat title of his 2016 show suggests, Simon Munnery has been presenting his stand-up to festival…
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Published articles
Musical
Yeti’s Demon Dive Bar at the Pleasance Courtyard
Offering shelter from the invariably chilly evening air, award-winning cabaret duo Jennifer Byrne and Victoria Falconer-Pritchard welcome you…
By Stuart Boyland
Theatre
Driftwood at Assembly George Square Gardens
Hailing from Australia, Casus Circus bring their new show, Driftwood, to the Edinburgh stage in a graceful flurry of…
By Stuart Boyland
Theatre
Sci-Fi? at the Pleasance Courtyard
Thanks to a pair of live musicians, a suitably atmospheric soundtrack of eerie synths and booming drums greets…
By Stuart Boyland
Play
The Seagull – Young Chekhov Season at the National Theatre
Perhaps the best known of the three plays selected by Chichester Festival Theatre Productions for the Young Chekhov…
By Stuart Boyland
Movie
The BFG
Coming in the year that would have marked Roald Dahl’s 100th birthday, a big-budget Hollywood reimagining of one…
By Stuart Boyland
Live music
Courtney Barnett at Somerset House
“I feel like the Queen should be looking down from up there or something!” - so Courtney Barnett…
By Stuart Boyland
Play
Fury at Soho Theatre
From the pen of Soho Theatre’s 2016 Writer-in-Residence Phoebe Eclair-Powell, Fury is billed as a “Modern Medea” in…
By Stuart Boyland
Current Affairs
Glastonbury’s reaction to “Brexit”: Coldplay, Billy Bragg, Damon Albarn and Beans on Toast tell it how it is
Mornings at Glastonbury Festival are usually a time for the nursing of sore heads and bleary-eyed preparations for…
By Stuart Boyland
Play
Soul at Hackney Empire
A compilation of Marvin Gaye’s greatest hits plays during the interval of Soul, a new play by Roy…
By Stuart Boyland