Tag: Fringe

Doctor Niamh Shaw has come a long way, but she dreams of travelling farther still. Since an afternoon in the cinema in Carlow when she was eight years

Born in December 1815, the daughter of the “mad, bad and dangerous to know” Lord Byron, this year sees the 200th anniversary of the birth of Augusta Ada

With over 3,000 events taking place in the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the space within the programme finite, the number of characters allotted to each company to

The arrival of Mr Innocent Smith at the gothic wrought iron gate of Beacon House is the cause of much alarm and exclamation among the residents of Diana

It was when reviewing her 1987 single Weak in the Presence of Beauty that Smash Hits said of Alison Moyet that there was nothing so frustrating as a

On February 27th our community lost one of its vanguard. His work and its influence needs no further elaboration on these pages; indeed, these pages would likely never

It is the nature of scientific endeavour that in order to achieve, sacrifices must be made; every theory must eventually be tested, and even when all safety precautions

“Dare you see the devil in you?” asks the flyer for “master mentalist and mystery performer” Ian Harvey Stone’s Edinburgh Fringe show, promising a “Faustian mix of storytelling,

At the prestigious Assembly Halls on top of the Mound overlooking the city of Edinburgh, previously home to the Scottish Government prior to the completion of the Parliament

There are few television shows that, almost a half century after inception, still inspire debate and analysis; Doctor Who is one, Star Trek is another, but both of