Tag: Edinburgh International Festival

THEATRE – Peter Gynt at Edinburgh International Festival

  IBSEN’s three-act verse- drama, Peer Gynt, was written in 1867 with the intention never to be performed and perhaps, it would have been better...

MUSIC – St Vincent brings transgressive pop to the Playhouse

Few people can claim to have performed in front of an audience of hundreds in their under garments and successfully pulled it off with...

MUSIC – Joan As Policewoman performs at Lau-Land Festival in Edinburgh

  BY JEAN WEST Joan Wasser of Joan As Policewoman, from across the pond in New York, had a notion of what Leith was all about before her recent visit. The dynamic...

THEATRE – Geoff Sobelle builds a HOME at the International Festival

BY JEAN WEST   I hadn't intended to get married when I left the house this afternoon. But by 5pm, I had a new husband - a stranger I...

THEATRE – Midsummer, a revitalised retelling by The National Theatre of Scotland

BY JEAN WEST 'Change is possible,' said the words on the parking meter as Helena balked at having to cough up so much for this...

MUSIC – Mogwai bring new and nostalgic sounds to Leith Theatre

BY JEAN WEST 'Beautiful terrorists,' that's how I heard someone describe Mogwai after last night's Edinburgh International Festival, ear-shattering showdown at a rejuvenated Leith Theatre, where they engineered rapture...

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