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What the Papers Say Today
29 August 2008
The Scotsman today urges readers to ‘finish your festival in style' with ‘searing Belgian cabaret' Wolpe! This performance from Muziektheater Transparant mixes music from German composer Stefan Wolpe with text and song. To watch a video clip of the production, click here. The piece is performed in English and German and runs at The Hub tonight and tomorrow. A limited number of tickets are still available for tomorrow night's show, click here for more details.
The Scotsman also picked the Istanbul Music and Sema Group's upcoming production of The Whirling Dervishes of Turkey as a rare opportunity to see this religious ritual. It plays at the Festival Theatre tonight and tomorrow at 7.30pm. To see a video clip of this group in action, click here. There are a limited number of tickets still available to this show, click here for more details.
In other Reviews
I went to the house but did not enter (Royal Lyceum Theatre - runs tonight and tomorrow at 8pm)
‘Goebbels has created an irresistible parlour diversion that is epic in scale and imbued with a gallows humour at its heart that's to die for. The Herald *****
Deca Dance 2008 (Edinburgh Playhouse - runs tonight and tomorrow at 7.30pm)
‘A richly textured collage full of quirkily witty dance that fires on all cylinders.' The Herald ****
Steven Osbourne (Queen's Hall - run ended)
‘The brightness and range of colours, jazz-like rhythms and tubular-bell like effects, were exquisitely highlighted by Osborne, especially in the ‘Regard de l'esprit de joie' which ended his triumphant performance.' The Scotsman*****
‘At generating the vast spaces and silences of the opening movement, he is unequalled, and the sheer exultant power of his finale remains awesome.' The Herald ****
The Enchanted Wanderer (Edinburgh Festival Theatre - run ended)
‘Gergiev conducted again, Kristina Kapustinskaya sang sumptuously as another fickle gypsy, and the Mariinsky orchestra and chorus excelled.' The Daily Telegraph
