16th November 2022
Books Editor Constance Roisin reviews Pussy Riot’s anti-war tour as it closed the Great Western Festival. As it is the last act of a day-long festival, the crowd are all tired, half sitting down around the room, and no one seems to notice when a member of Pussy Riot gets on stage and starts a ...
16th November 2022
Eve analyses whether the blurring of the information-entertainment barrier will undermine the performance of The Muppets Christmas Carol in Glasgow this November. Those of us who have recently experienced the misfortune of the unnecessarily loud, £3.20 Glasgow subway, will have found the trip compensated by the nostalgic promise – via advertisement – of the Muppets ...
16th November 2022
In line with the group’s debut UK/European tour, We Three discuss the release of their third album Happy. American heartbreak pop sensations We Three kick off their debut UK/European tour at Glasgow’s King Tuts Wah Wah Hut. Following the release of their third studio album, Happy, Manny Bethany and Joshua talk tracks of relationships and ...
16th November 2022
Middling rock for teenage tastes, Flora reflects back on The Pretty Reckless’ “lacklustre” Glasgow gig. If you watch the 2001 adaption of The Grinch this Christmas and find yourself wondering, “I wonder where that wee girl who played Cindy Lou-Who is now?”, let me spoil the surprise early: she is the lead singer in a ...
16th November 2022
Adapted from the comics series in the 1990s to a TV show for the 2020s, The Sandman reflects the demand for more nuanced, inclusive, and diverse representations in the fantasy genre. There is always the fear that directors and producers will completely desecrate a well-loved text in their adaptation. Choices surrounding plot emission, casting, and ...
16th November 2022
Emma reviews this modern theatrical interpretation of the classic novel. Edinburgh’s Lyceum Theatre recently hosted the production of Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of). Written and directed by Isobel McArthur, it is a comical reinterpretation of Jane Austen’s classic 1813 novel, Pride and Prejudice. Its modernity and wit make it thoroughly entertaining viewing, for those both ...
16th November 2022
Finn reflects back on the Hunterian’s exhibition, celebrating 40 years since the publication of Alasadair Gray’s Lanark. **This exhibition is no longer open to the public** Alasdair Gray’s Lanark: A Life in Four Books is a novel built out of parts that ought not to fit together. It is an autobiography embedded inside a fantasy. ...