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REVIEWS
Music: Owen Wingrave
Originally written for TV and seldom performed live, Benjamin Britten’s penultimate opera is a strange beast – part pondering of pacifist philosophy, part ghost story.
Theatre: Signal Failure
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Hide AdIt takes a lot to make a romantic comedy original – so many are cynical and heartless reworkings of other reworkings – but Sasha Ellen’s script isn’t about what’s gone before, it’s a genuinely fresh look at not only relationships, but also modern city life.
Comedy: John Kearns – Shtick
Whereas in 2013 he was confounded by the wisdom of Woody Allen, this year it’s Jerry Seinfeld delivering the comedy homily he must struggle to keep up with, in a frantic preamble that sets a pattern for the deep and daft fifty minutes to follow.
INTERVIEWS
BJ Novak on The Office and his Fringe show One More Thing
After sitcom success in the US, BJ Novak tells Jay Richardson why he’s exposing himself with his first collection of comic prose
Kronos Quartet take a musical journey back to 1914
A desire to counteract war with music has always been the driving force behind the Kronos Quartet, finds Susan Nickalls
Amelia Zirin-Brown on her cult diva Lady Rizo
Cult cabaret superstar Amelia Zirin-Brown is a high priestess in the Church of Glitter, taking disciples on a sensational journey through love, marriage, infidelity and divorce, finds Claire Smith
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Lloyd Griffith: ‘Not scaling buildings, just doing scales’
Freelance choirboy Lloyd Griffith chats to Matthew Dunne-Miles about choral singing, comedy and cassocks
Gràinne Maguire: ‘I thought it would be fun to do something topical’
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Hide AdGràinne Maguire investigates the news agenda in her new Edinburgh Festival Fringe discussion show, finds Alex Watson
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