Both love and dance can pop up unexpectedly from different places at various times. Sometimes just a look, or perhaps a piece of music, can bring them out into the open, either separately or together. Both can be infectious. It’s not uncommon, when we see a couple kissing, to feel the same desire. It’s the […]

It Folds is a harrowing, heartbreaking and sometimes darkly humorous investigation of death and grief. It is mostly the story of lost children. Children abused or abducted or run over or gone missing, permanently. It is a story told by a (holy) ghost in a sheet with holes for the eyes, and trainers; a dishevelled, […]

I’ve been sung to by FK Alexander! I waited until she had taken off her black sequinned cabaret singer jacket, and her harness, and her not-silver (as in the original Wizard of Oz book), not-ruby red (as in the Judy Garland film) but sparkly coppery-gold shoes. I stood on the black cross on the floor […]

Once. Once upon a time… Once. But in another time, not this time. Another world, not this one. We have entered another world, another time. An ethereal world, outside the boundaries of space and time. (Ether is the substance that angels are made from…) Once upon a time there was… A pair of angels looking […]

Chewed bread sculpture, swanee whistles, upside down bicycles, Casio keyboards, record decks, cardboard constructions, dragons – and an out-of-breath middle-aged man with his trousers round his ankles. What more could you want of a Thursday lunchtime in Edinburgh? The Castle Builder is a show celebrating outsider art and ‘otherness’ in art-making. The celebration is in […]