Live Review: Jessica Pratt’s piercing performance at The Blue Arrow Jazz Club
News that Jessica Pratt, a Californian singer-songwriter with a chill folk-esque sound, had handpicked Saul Adamczewski of Fat White Family and Insecure Men to accompany her on her UK tour…
‘A new standard for student theatre’ ‒ Yerma Review
“A childless woman is like a bunch of thistles — something fit for God’s rubbish heap.” Such are the poignant words uttered by the eponymous Yerma, the latest EUTC production…
‘Deeply ambitious’ ‒ The Queen of Spades review
Not half a rap into knocking on the door of an unassuming Marchmont flat is it swung open to reveal the white-faced, monocled Tomsky (Isabella Foreshaw) who exuberantly welcomes us…
Art under the stars: Collective at the City Observatory
Atop the beloved Calton Hill sits the newly restored City Observatory, new home to Collective, an Edinburgh-based arts group committed to supporting contemporary work by artists who are at a…
An interview with the cast and director of When The Rain Stops Falling
“They fuck you up, your mum and dad / They do not mean to but they do / They fill you with the faults they had / And add some…
Has the digital revolution paralysed us with too much choice?
Man is condemned to be free” announced a bespectacled old French man who was partial to cigarettes and coffee. And although he presumably wasn’t talking about Spotify and Netflix when…
Should the David Hume Tower be levelled?
Content warning: description of historic racist views David Hume. You may have heard of him. Apparently, he has a tower somewhere on campus — a couple lecture theatres too. Deservedly…
The culture of initiations at the University of Edinburgh
“To be in the club you have to initiate”; “We don’t believe in initiations”. Two conflicting statements about sports initiations at a University of Edinburgh’s men’s sports team, the first…