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VENUE: THE PLACE >>> After a hectic week, I couldn’t have been more excited to take time out and attend last night’s performance of Jazz Conversations at The Place. Miles Davis, a live jazz band and jazz dance on a Friday night was the tonic I thought I was looking for. Not an inch of guilt set in as I made myself comfortable in the auditorium...

VENUE: BARONS COURT THEATRE >>> Many of us find the idea of twins intriguing; two people that were once a single cell, now walking the earth separately, yet still deeply interconnected. It forces us to question the layers of the self and what forms an identity...

VENUE: ARCOLA THEATRE >>> The Grimeborn Opera Festival returns to the Arcola Theatre from the 14th of August for its seventeenth year of radical opera, featuring seven innovative productions from across the globe.  Today was Mr. Punch at the Opera...

VENUE: KINGS HEAD THEATRE >>> Every country has its quirks, and the specificity of UK service stations is one of them. Littered with deep burgundy Costa Coffee cups, flashing slot machines, and fast food eateries, everyone has an idea of one in their head, making it a brilliant, neutral location. So, it makes sense that a service...

VENUE: ARCOLA THEATRE >>> On 22 July 2011, just before 3:30 in the afternoon, a lone figure driven by an extreme right-wing ideology detonated a bomb outside a building in Oslo’s Government Quarter, killing eight people and injuring many more. Two hours later, he was on...

VENUE: PLEASANCE COURTYARD, EDINBURGH >>> Rebels and Patriots started as diary entries during Writer and Ensemble Member Nadav Burstein's three-year conscription to the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). The company behind the production Floating Shed prides itself...