WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
The Canadian Inuit plight is given a stage with a powerful advocacy
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools
The Studio, Edinburgh
★★★★
BUDDIES in Bad Times Theatre Company claims to be Toronto’s leading destination for artistic and alternative theatre and a world leader in developing queer voices. Certainly singer-songwriter Evalyn Parry, and Inuit artist and performer Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, bring something different to the Edinburgh Festival.
Their show rather than drama — although it is quite dramatic enough — is a mixture of convivial but instructive conversation, story and songs relating to the lives of these two Canadians from separate worlds, and explosive anger directed at the audience designed to illustrate the strangling colonial oppression of Bathory’s Inuit people, especially their women
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