Tag: Edinburgh International Festival

King Creosote & band, a live accompaniment to the film From Scotland With Love

King Creosote with his 9 piece band performing a live accompaniment to the film From Scotland With Love     ©Brian D Anderson   For the first time in over five years, this stunning Scottish archive film by director Virginia Heath with musical score by King Creosote will be performed live in March 2020. From Scotland […]

Ballett Zürich Wayne McGregor, Kairos

Ballett Zürich Wayne McGregor | Christian Spuck 27 – 29 August 2015 The Edinburgh Playhouse Ballett Zürich, one of Europe’s leading ensembles, presents a captivating double bill featuring works by their artistic director Christian Spuck and multi-award-winning British choreographer Wayne McGregor. McGregor’s new work Kairos is a seamless marriage of design and structure set to Max Richter’s celebrated […]

The Magic Flute

The Magic Flute Komische Oper Berlin | Barrie Kosky | 1927 27 – 30 August 2015 Festival Theatre Mozart’s masterful comedy is richly reimagined in a boundary-busting production created by director Barrie Kosky and British theatre group 1927, blending animated film and live action in a spectacular kaleidoscope of 1920s silent movies, Weimar cabaret, the […]

Seven, Germany’s Ballett am Rhein

20 – 22 August 2015  The Edinburgh Playhouse Germany’s Ballett am Rhein joins the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for Martin Schläpfer’s epic response to Mahler’s enigmatic 7th Symphony. In this full-length ballet, the anguish and poignant beauty of Mahler’s Symphony seem to be written into the bodies of the dancers. Music and movement merge into […]

Robert Lepage 887

Robert Lepage 887

European Premiere, Robert Lepage 887   Legendary director, playwright and ‘visual wizard’ (New York Times), Robert Lepage returns to Edinburgh to perform the European premiere of his new work. While Lepage continues to pioneer the use of technology, his work is imbued with an intimacy and humanity that few can match. 887 is a riveting foray into the […]

End of Festival Fireworks

  As usual, come the end of the Edinburgh festival I was preparing to watch The Fireworks perched on top of a hill with a good view of the castle, photographing the amazing pyrotechnics from afar. However a couple of days before the event I received an email from the guys at Blipfoto saying that I (and one other Bliper, SlyBaconshots) had […]