01AUG25: Macbeth (Shakespeare) -- Wilton's Music Hall
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07AUG25: Official Secrets (Hood, 2019) -- Netflix
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08AUG25: Weapons (Cregger, 2025) -- Greenwich PictureHouse
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EDINBURGH 2025
19AUG25: The Cyclops (Acting Coach Scotland) -- Annexe at theSpace @ Symposium Hall
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19AUG25: Mitch Benn: The Lehrer Effect -- Underbelly
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19AUG25: Women of Rock (Night Owl Shows) -- Grand Theatre at theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall
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19AUG25: Iphigenia in Tauris (Intothedark / Euripides) -- The Annexe at Paradise in The Vault
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20AUG25: A Poem and a Mistake (by Cheri Magid, performed by Sarah Baskin) -- Assembly Rooms
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20AUG25: Arachne (Britt Anderson, Whisper Theatre) -- Britt Anderson, Whisper Theatre
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20AUG25: Miriam Margolyse -- Edinburgh International Conference Centre
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21AUG25: Monstering the Rocketman (Henry Naylow) -- Pleasance Dome
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21AUG25: Circa - Wolf -- The Lafayette at Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows
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21AUG25: Canvas of Sound (Tazeen Qayyum, Feras Charestan and Basel Rajoub) -- The Hub
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22AUG25: From Primordial Soups to Primates in Suits (Dr David Jones) -- South Gallery Annexe at Dovecot Studios
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22AUG25: Bolero (Kinetic Orchestra) -- DB3 at Assembly @ Dance Base
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22AUG25: Iago Speaks (Rumpus) -- Big at theSpaceTriplex
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23AUG25: Bacchae (Company of Wolves) -- Upstairs at Assembly Roxy
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23AUG25: Figures in Extinction (Nederlands Dans Theater) -- Festival Theatre
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23AUG25: Pop Off Michelangelo (Blair Russell Productions) -- Udderbelly at Underbelly, George Square
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23AUG25: As You Like It: A Radical Retelling (Cliff Cardinal) -- Church Hill Theatre
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28AUG25: Thursday Murder Club (Columbus, 2025) -- Netflix
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29AUG25: The Roses (Roach, 2025) -- Greenwich PictureHouse
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04AUG22: Love Birds (Murphy, 2011) -- Netflix
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05AUG22: Bullet Train (Leith, 2022) -- Greenwich PictureHouse
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11AUG22: Bohemian Rhapsody (Singer, 2018) -- Netflix
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18AUG22: Arrietty (Yonebayashi, 2010) -- Netflix
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Edinburgh 2022


in which I discover that my Long Covid symptoms are considerably worse than they were in 2021.

21AUG22: Medea (Euripides/Liz Lockhead: National Theatre of Scotland: The Hub, Edinburgh)
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22AUG22: A Matter of Time (Anjali Singh: C Cubed, Edinburgh)>
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22AUG22: Antigone: the Musical (Hard Luck Musicals: Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh)
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23AUG22: It's About Time (Mitch Benn: Underbelly, Bristo Square, Edinburgh)
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23AUG22: Fascinating Aida (Assembly, George Square, Edinburgh)
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24AUG22: Richard Eggar and Friends (Queens Hall, Edinburgh)
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24AUG22: The Actress (Long Lane Theatre Company: Underbelly, Bristo Square, Edinburgh)
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24AUG22: An Evening Without Kate Bush (Sarah-Louise Young and Russell Lucas: Assembly George Square Gardens, Edinburgh)
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24AUG22: Say You're With Me (Larkhall: Summerhall, Edinburgh)
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25AUG22: Little Sparta
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25AUG22: The Jungle Book Reimagined (Akram Khan Company: Festival Theatre, Edinburgh)
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26AUG22: The Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Florence Price (Philadelphia Orchestra, Usher Hall, Edinburgh)
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02AUG18: Ant-Man and the Wasp
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08AUG18: Translations, NT
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Edinburgh!


Things in bold are my favourites. Star ratings were awarded immediately after each show, and my opinion may have changed in hindsight.

19AUG18: Edith Hall on Aristotle, Edinburgh Book Festival ★★★★
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19AUG18: Rachmaninov Vespers ★★★★
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20AUG18: Elizabethan ★★★★
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20AUG18: Violetta ★★★★★
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20AUG18: Vulvarine ★★★★★
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20AUG18: Shackleton's Stowaway ★★★★
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21AUG18: Reverend Richard Cole: Confessions
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21AUG18: Marvel-us: All the Marvel Movies ★★★
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21AUG18: Hamilton (Lewis) ★★★★★
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22AUG18: The Electra Legacy ★★★
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22AUG18: Mitch Benn: Doing It on Purpose ★★★
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22AUG18: Bacchae ★★★★
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22AUG18: We've Got Each Other ★★★★
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23AUG18: Spoiler Alert ★★★
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23AUG18: A Modern Guide to Heroism and Sidekickery ★★★★
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23AUG18: Bacchanals ★★★★★
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23AUG18: Midsummer ★★★★★
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24AUG18: Brexit ★★★
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24AUG18: Casus: You and I ★★★★★
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24AUG18: Attrape Moi ★★★
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24AUG18: La Cenerentola (Rossini)
★★★★
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A great finale to a great week of culture (during which I also caught up with several friends). But I could not do all this, so intensively, in Real Life.
First came Nine Worlds: love the new venue (Hammersmith Novotel) and felt much less frazzled than in previous years. My Historical Headcanon (concerning Christopher Marlowe) seemed well-received and I was on a couple of interesting panels about historical fiction, fanfiction, writing, etc.

Then to Edinburgh to skew my monthly averages for various types of Culture. I like the shorter-than-usual performances (they averaged an hour): leaves plenty of time for climbing the hills of which Edinburgh is composed, and pausing for refreshment at each summit.
theatre, gigs, circus, literary stuff, opera, comedy )

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