Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
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Death at their finger tips
GORDON PARSONS falls head over heels with a production that dazzles with its nanotechnology
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
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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