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Tag: Summerhall TV

Books Literary Events Non-Fiction

As the methods of warfare get more brutal, subtlety and secrecy become valid tools in overpowering enemy forces. For his book Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins, Andrew Cockburn, the Washington editor of Harper’s, has been quietly researching …

Andrew Cockburn : Kill Chain

Festivals Performance Plays

An innovative re-imagining of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, performed and created by renowned international theatre practitioner Anna-Helena McLean (formerly a principal performer with Poland’s legendary Gardzienice Centre for Theatre Practices). This intoxicating performance promises an engaging, funny, sensual and participatory …

Anna-Helena McLean : Titania

Festivals Performance Plays

‘If you pinned me against a wall, I’d probably admit to being a liberal. Of course, pinning me against a wall is exactly what I’d expect from someone like you.’ Confirmation is a show about the gulfs we cannot talk …

Confirmation

Literary Events Non-Fiction

Ali Millar in conversation with Etgar Keret an internationally acclaimed novelist who now turned his hand on memoir, at this year’s Edinburgh Book Festival. Etgar Keret was declared ‘a genius’ by the New Yorker: The Seven Good Years, translated into English by …

Etgar Keret : The Seven Good Years

Books Fiction Literary Events

It’s a wonderful sunny day in Edinburgh and Olivia Vitazkova meets up with Kate Mosse at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. It’s ten years since Mosse burst on the British literary scene with ‘Labyrinth’, the first of her Carcassonne-based Languedoc …

Kate Mosse : The Languedoc trilogy and The Taxidermist’s Daughter

Festivals

Mark Thomas explores the importance of public spaces, how we work and relate to each other in his Edinburgh Fringe play, ‘Trespass Work in Progress’. Trespass carries on from where Mark’s previous show 100 Acts of Minor Dissent left off. …

Mark Thomas : Trespass Work in Progress

Books Festivals Literary Events Non-Fiction

Matt Haig spoke in front of a packed Book Festival audience about the importance of reading and writing in maintaining mental health and its role in helping him conquer depression, as part of the Festival’s Staying Well strand. Matt said …

Matt Haig : Reasons To Stay Alive

Performance Plays

London’s boldest dance theatre brings hit shows to the Fringe. Inspired by Milton’s epic poem with less words, more dance and never before seen levels of divine incompetence. The Lost Dog’s restaging of the creation of everything. A show for anyone …

Paradise Lost : Fringe Interpretation of Milton’s Classic Poem

Festivals Performance Plays

A trip around the world via storytelling at its most effortlessly fluent, 17 Border Crossings starts with a man at a desk on an empty stage and ends up everywhere but. The itinerary: a worse-for-wear Communist-era train traveling from Prague …

Thaddeus Phillips : 17 Border Crossings

Festivals Performance Plays

The Thermos Museum is a comedic but also edifying experience; suitcases unfold to reveal numerous astonishing displays. However, the public are not free to reign: visitors are escorted around the museum by the mysterious and disenchanted Tour Guide. Digression seems …

The Thermos Museum

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