MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Eloquent dance in public spaces
ALAN CAIG WILSON witnesses an intense, hour-long masterpiece of control and deep focus
Matthew Hawkins performs Ready
[Nick Burge] 
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
Ready
Dancebase, Edinburgh
MATTHEW HAWKINS’ Ready is an intense, hour-long masterpiece of control and deep focus, with moments reminiscent of the “interrupted” world of Samuel Beckett. A solo performance, we witness Hawkins’ flowing movement, seemingly freeform but composed of a subtly repetitive patterns and gestures.
The journey begins and ends in the vague space of the theatre room, and in between takes us out into the more epic environment of wind-blown trees and the lowering presence of Edinburgh Castle.
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