Whatever else, I liked it. In making a show about manga artist Osamu Tezuka, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui has taken on the challenge of meeting and responding to an enormous body of work (~150,000 pages, hundreds of characters, illustrative styles spanning several decades) and created a rich, intelligent, sprawling work which communicates – and perhaps, for some, […]

It was a chance remark from a friend that started me thinking. We were discussing the dilemma for contemporary ‘liberal’ parents in choosing whether to send children to private school or to throw them to the sharks of state education in the inner London boroughs, and this somehow moved on to a discussion about the number […]

Scary Gorgeous revolves around the themes of sex, pornography, relationships and the need to be popular. We follow two narrative strands: a young couple whose relationship is based around their sexual urges and contemplations of love, and a passive aggressive friendship where two girls (Abbi and Helen) constantly challenge one another’s morals and identity. Rash Dash […]

So, where was I? Ah yes, autumn in Edinburgh – although these past few days it’s been almost like summer. There are cricket whites on the Meadows, and hippies blowing giant bubbles – but there’s also a rustling in the trees, and the odd leaf or two falling just as a warning. On the edge […]

The stage is set simply: two long tables with white tops, a cup and saucer placed centrally on each, and behind one, prim and petite, sits Diana Payne-Myers. She is the eponymous Carmel, celebrating her 80th year with a family gathering that exposes truths and tests assumptions, and within which the life-enhancing benefits of dance […]