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Welcome to Friday, and a hot one but we’ve broken the back of the heat wave and today promises to be cooler with a fresh weekend and week ahead. If you’re comfortable let’s take a look at what has been happening here in the past seven...
Some shows arrive at the Fringe as finished products. Others arrive with the thrilling sense that they are still becoming. WENCH belongs firmly in the second category. There are rough edges still visible, connective tissue that could be...
Trust is a fragile thing. Most of the time it sits quietly in the background of daily life, unnoticed and unquestioned. We trust strangers to stop at traffic lights. We trust colleagues to do their jobs. We trust the people sitting next...
Some musicals arrive at the Fringe as artistic experiments. Others arrive looking as though they already know exactly where the merchandise stand should go. Disenchanted! falls firmly into the latter category. Its commercial ambitions...
— Milton, Sonnet 19
Shakespeare has survived four hundred years because he is stubborn. Give Macbeth to traditionalists in doublets and hose, and it works. Hand it to avant-garde directors armed with video screens and microphones, and it works. Set it among...
So, today was the first time someone thought I was South African, which is honestly even worse than when they think I'm English (or correctly, American).
Stories survive because they refuse to sit still.Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has spent more than a century being reimagined, reinvented and repackaged for new audiences. Alice by Heart takes a familiar route into...
Every generation gets the epic it deserves.Homer gave us Odysseus wandering home from the Trojan War. James Joyce took that ancient journey, shrank it to a single day in Dublin and transformed The Odyssey into Ulysses, proving that...
When I was almost one year old, there was a total solar eclipse in my country. My family was able to see it, and of course I don’t remember what happened, but they’ve told me stories about how the animals became confused, chickens went...
Don’t I know you? (Trees in the Sierra Nevada) Isn’t it satisfying to know the names of things? I just got back from a backpacking trip to the Sierra Nevada with a bunch of geologists. I learned that those pink rocks are full of...
In this interesting and ambitious book, Christina J. Faraday explores the history of Tudor England through its art and objects. The artwork of a particular period can tell us a lot about key historical events, how important figures chose...
Photo credit: OCWR The more I volunteer for the American Red Cross, the more I learn about everything this organization does for the community. Recently, I was recruited to work on installing smoke alarms in homes that either have...
Another week of hot hot temperatures requires some scorching riffs to match. Hopefully there’s some good stuff in this bunch. Hails! Abyssal Rift - death - USAMegascavenger - death - SwedenBurial Ruthless - death - VenezuelaInvocation...
Painted by Briton Rivière, this oil painting (usually dated as created in 1885) shows the reunion between Ulysses (also known as Ulysses), finally returned to Ithaca after twenty years (Troy!) and his faithful dog Ulysses. This video by...