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GORDON PARSONS falls head over heels with a production that dazzles with its nanotechnology
[Julien-Lambert]

Cold Blood
Kings Theatre
Edinburgh International Festival
★★★★★

Is it theatre, film, ballet or do we have to coin a new term?

Whatever we call it, Cold Blood will never allow audiences to look at their hands in the same way again.

Film-maker Jaco Van Dormael and choreographer Michele Anne De Mey have collaborated to produce what must rate as one of the highlights of Edinburgh’s artfest.

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