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Ethel Cain’s New Single 'Nettles': Revisiting Preacher’s Daughter
'Nettles', Ethel Cain (Spotify, 2025) Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Content Warning: this article mentions transphobia, homophobia, sexual violence,...
Molly Barrow
Jun 74 min read
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Review: Play On
Rating: ★ ★ ★ There are blossoms on the Meadows, the nostalgic smell of disposable BBQs is lingering in the air, and Newington’s pubs are...
Molly Barrow
May 52 min read
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Review: Princess Ida
Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group, Princess Ida Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group's modern feminist and queer...
Juliette Pepin
Apr 83 min read
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A Review of ‘Forever Is A Feeling’ by Lucy Dacus
Forever Is A Feeling , Lucy Dacus (Spotify, 2025) Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ Lucy Dacus’s fourth album is an introvert’s answer to BRAT summer: a...
Molly Barrow
Mar 303 min read
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Review: Down the Hatch
Down the Hatch , Edinburgh University Footlights Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★.5 Edinburgh University Footlights’ showchoir production, Down the Hatch...
Srishti Ramakrishnan
Mar 283 min read
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Review: Shut Up, Shakespeare!
Shut Up, Shakespeare! Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ The Edinburgh University Shakespeare Society’s annual...
Sophie Wheeler
Mar 62 min read
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Review: Road
Road , Edinburgh University Theatre Company Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ Walking into the Bedlam Theatre on Thursday night, one couldn’t help but...
Neve Cassidy
Mar 63 min read
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Review: 9 to 5: The Musical
9 to 5 The Musical, Edinburgh University Footlights Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Before a single coffee was brewed or typewriter clacked, Edinburgh...
Sophie Wheeler
Feb 144 min read
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Review: Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing , Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ .5 Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company’s Much Ado...
Kristy Galbraith
Feb 74 min read
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Review: The End of the Line
The End of the Line , Theatre Paradok Rating: ★ ★ ★. 5 The End of the Line introduces us to six almost-strangers, the last people on the...
Isabella Lapadula
Nov 17, 20243 min read
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Review: The Boys in the Band
The Boys in the Band , Bedlam Theatre What makes a 1960s play about closeted gay men resonate so deeply in 2024? When I heard that Bedlam...
Alex Stevens
Nov 4, 20244 min read
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Review: Mother Clap's Molly House
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Conor O’Cuinn’s rendition of Mother Clap’s Molly House by Mark Ravenhill transforms Bedlam Theatre into a raunchy...
Jasmine Owen-Moulding
Mar 17, 20242 min read
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Review: The Paint Job
Rating: ★★★★ The Paint Job, directed by Alice Humphries, is aptly situated amongst the walls of paintings in ECA’s cafe, The Wee Red Bar,...
Sophie Wheeler
Mar 11, 20242 min read
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Review: Guys and Dolls
Photograph: Andrew Morris Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Edinburgh University Footlights delivered a captivating rendition of the classic musical...
Rosie Tatham
Feb 17, 20242 min read
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Review: Haider
Haider (2014), UTV Motion Pictures Rating: ★★★★ One of the many facets of Hamlet’s brilliance is its everlasting obsession with “energy...
Ali Lakhany
Feb 16, 20244 min read
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Review: Mary: A Gig Theatre Show
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ The Last Dinner Party is playing on the speakers as you enter, the cast are intermingling on stage with the audience, and...
Florence Carr-Jones
Feb 8, 20243 min read
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Review: Dracula: Mina's Reckoning
Thursday 12th October 2023, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh Rating: ★ ★ Attending Dracula: Mina’s Reckoning at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre...
Owen Thomas Webb
Jan 31, 20245 min read
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Review: Memento Mori
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ As the audience takes their seats for Noor Kabbani’s Memento Mori, ‘Little Dark Age’ by MGMT loops moodily round. It...
Sophie Wheeler
Nov 28, 20232 min read
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Review: The Welkin
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ As 18th century Suffolk awaits Halley’s comet, twelve women hold the fate of Sally Poppy in their hands. Sentenced to...
Isabella Lapadula
Nov 16, 20233 min read
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Albion: A Review
Albion - ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Haunted by a dead England, a dead friendship, and a dead son; a woman sits in a doomed garden, alone. Bedlam Theatre’s...
Finn Tyson
Oct 18, 20234 min read
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