Tag: EIF 2025
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Review: Figures in Extinction
Extraordinary, unique and emotion-firing performance
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Review: Breaking Bach
Street dance meets classical in atypically fitting mash-up
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Review: Canvas of Sound with Tazeen Qayyum
Cross-medium collaboration between calligraphy and music
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Review: Faustus in Africa!
Witty and sometimes harrowing display of puppet power
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Review: Orpheus and Eurydice
Spellbinding new take on a classic
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Review: Mary, Queen of Scots
Scottish Ballet’s thrillingly unapologetic retelling
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Review: Book of Mountains and Seas
Minimalist opera that is meditative and soothing
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Interview: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Cover story: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s upcoming album Gush places emphasis on the melding of the senses. The American composer talks to Claire Sawers about synaesthesia, adrenaline highs and her lush live show
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Review: Triptic
Rapturous, virtuosic exploration of global folk music
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Review: Up Late with Kathryn Joseph
Gorgeous set from the bluntly honest electronic rock troubadour
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Review: Works and Days
Impressive, epic rumination on humanity’s quest to conquer nature
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Review: Dance People
Interactive dance performance that ignites and unites audiences
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Review: The Dan Daw Show
In this enervating declaration of sexuality as selfhood, disabled bodies are not only desirable but agential through desire
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Review: Make It Happen
James Graham’s tale of cataclysmic collapse is both spectacular and highly memorable
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Interview: Circa’s Yaron Lifschitz and Wright&Grainger
At the Fringe and EIF, two productions take on the classical myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, but in two very different ways
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Interview: Crash Theatre Company, Crow Theatre and Song of the Goat
The three companies discuss their new interpretations of Shakespeare
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Interview: Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s Alison Green
Green talks about performing for people with dementia and their loved ones, and the SCO’s upcoming International Festival concert
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Interview: Fairouz Nishanova and Basel Rajoub
As the Aga Khan Music Programme returns to the EIF, Director Fairouz Nishanova and musician Basel Rajoub reflect on its impact
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Edinburgh International Festival 2025: Top Picks
The best music, dance and theatre arriving at the International Festival