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
Books Festivals Fiction Literary Events Ali Millar in an illuminating interview with Danish novelist and short-story writer Dorthe Nors at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Nors has burst onto the UK literary scene with a heady cocktail of short stories, ‘Karate Chop’, translated from the … Dorthe Nors : Karate Chop/Minna Needs Rehearsal Space
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
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
Books Festivals Fiction Literary Events Sixth in the 2015 series of interviews from the Edinburgh International Book Festival. WriterStories : A.D Miller and Patrick Gale
Books Festivals Fiction Literary Events One of a series of broadcast programme length compilation of interviews from the 2015 Edinburgh International Book Festival. WriterStories : Andrew O’Hagan and Andrew Cockburn
Books Festivals Fiction Literary Events Number ten in the 2015 series of interviews from the Edinburgh International Book Festival. WriterStories : Colin Macintyre and Julian Baggini
Books Festivals Fiction Literary Events Fourth in the 2015 series of WriterStories from the Edinburgh International Book Festival. WriterStories : Etgar Keret and Matt Haig
Books Festivals Fiction Literary Events Latest in the 2015 WriterStories TV series from the Edinburgh International Book Festival. WriterStories : Kate Mosse and Nick Barley
Books Festivals Fiction Literary Events Third in the 2015 series of WriterStories. WriterStories : Louise Welsh and Mark Billingham
Books Festivals Fiction Literary Events Second in the 2015 WriterStories series for TV transmission. WriterStories : Michael Rosen and Rob Doyle
Literary Events Through poetry and history we explore the connections between Lowland Scots and Ulster Scots in a programme for local channel NvTv transmitting in Northern Ireland. WriterStories : Scrievit in Scots
Books Festivals Fiction Literary Events Fifth in the 2015 WriterSeries of interviews from the Edinburgh International Book Festival. WriterStories : Sergio Fajardo and Justin Cartwright
Books Festivals Fiction Literary Events Ninth in the current series of interviews with authors at the 2015 Edinburgh International Book Festival. WriterStories : Stephen Kelman and Ragnar Jonasson