Festival season preview
Not counting any performances we attend on the spur of the moment, various friends and relations will be joining me in reviewing the following shows for Edinburgh Arts:
Book festival
Antonia Fraser (26th August, RBS main theatre)
International Festival
Troilus and Cressida (14th-26th August, King's Theatre)
Emily Beynon and Andrew West (15th August, Queen's Hall)
Mazeppa (22nd and 24th August, Festival Theatre)
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (23rd August, Usher Hall)
Christian Zacharias (25th August, Queen's Hall)
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (25th August, Usher Hall)
The assassin tree (25th-27th August, Royal Lyceum Theatre)
Beethoven's 7th symphony (26th August, Usher Hall)
Balanchine's Don Quixotte (26th-29th August, Playhouse)
Richard Goode lecture recital (27th August, Queen's Hall)
Suzanne Farrell talk (27th August, Hawthornden Lecture Theatre)
Ian Bostridge and Antonio Pappano (28th August, Usher Hall)
Fringe Festival
Flanders and Swann (2nd-8th and 12th-28th August, Pleasance Courtyard)
Shakespeare's passions (2nd-27th August, Gilded Balloon)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead (2nd-28th August, C)
The real Inspector Hound (4th-13th August, Roman Eagle Lodge Theatre)
Black comedy (5th-28th August, C)
Murder at the Savoy (7th-13th and 22nd-28th August, Augustine's Sanctuary)
Divino Pastor Laureate (7th-26th August, Pleasance Courtyard)
Bach's Mass in B minor (11th-12th August, Canongate Kirk)
The Oxford Gargoyles (14th-19th August, C too)
The Canterbury tales (15th, 17th, 19th, 23rd, 25th and 27th August, Augustine's Sanctuary)
Andrzej Zawisza (20th August, St Cecilia's Hall)
Colin Steele (22nd August, The Lot)
Salsa Celtica acoustic (24th-26th August, Spiegel Garden)
Book festival
Antonia Fraser (26th August, RBS main theatre)
International Festival
Troilus and Cressida (14th-26th August, King's Theatre)
Emily Beynon and Andrew West (15th August, Queen's Hall)
Mazeppa (22nd and 24th August, Festival Theatre)
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (23rd August, Usher Hall)
Christian Zacharias (25th August, Queen's Hall)
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (25th August, Usher Hall)
The assassin tree (25th-27th August, Royal Lyceum Theatre)
Beethoven's 7th symphony (26th August, Usher Hall)
Balanchine's Don Quixotte (26th-29th August, Playhouse)
Richard Goode lecture recital (27th August, Queen's Hall)
Suzanne Farrell talk (27th August, Hawthornden Lecture Theatre)
Ian Bostridge and Antonio Pappano (28th August, Usher Hall)
Fringe Festival
Flanders and Swann (2nd-8th and 12th-28th August, Pleasance Courtyard)
Shakespeare's passions (2nd-27th August, Gilded Balloon)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead (2nd-28th August, C)
The real Inspector Hound (4th-13th August, Roman Eagle Lodge Theatre)
Black comedy (5th-28th August, C)
Murder at the Savoy (7th-13th and 22nd-28th August, Augustine's Sanctuary)
Divino Pastor Laureate (7th-26th August, Pleasance Courtyard)
Bach's Mass in B minor (11th-12th August, Canongate Kirk)
The Oxford Gargoyles (14th-19th August, C too)
The Canterbury tales (15th, 17th, 19th, 23rd, 25th and 27th August, Augustine's Sanctuary)
Andrzej Zawisza (20th August, St Cecilia's Hall)
Colin Steele (22nd August, The Lot)
Salsa Celtica acoustic (24th-26th August, Spiegel Garden)
Reviews A-Z
- Edinburgh Festival season 2006: Bach's Mass in B minor (Fringe)
- Angel-A
- Banlieue 13
- Brokeback Mountain
- Capote
- Casanova
- Charlie and the chocolate factory
- The constant gardener
- The Da Vinci code
- Edinburgh Festival season 2005: Autistic license (Fringe)
- Edward Scissorhands (Matthew Bourne ballet)
- Good night, and good luck
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (novel)
- Hebrides Ensemble plays Ravel
- Keeping mum
- King Kong (2005)
- Lady and the tramp (DVD)
- Memoirs of a geisha
- Merry Christmas
- Mission: Impossible III
- Lisa Milne in recital (Usher Hall International Series 2005/06)
- Munich
- The new statesman
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead man's chest
- Romeo and Juliet (Edinburgh University)
- Rose St Ensemble's Mozart birthday concert
- Royal Lyceum Theatre Company (2005/06 season): Faust, parts I and II
- Royal Scottish National Orchestra: American icons (2005/06 season)
- Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Mozart and Prokofiev (2005/06 season)
- Superman returns
- Syriana
- Transamerica
- United 93
- Walk the line (2006 film)
- The war of the worlds (2005 film)
- William Jewell College Choir
The bald prima donna (Fringe)
Emily Beynon/Andrew West recital (EIF) Black comedy (Fringe)
Budapest Festival Orchestra (EIF)
The Canterbury tales (Fringe)
Flanders and Swann (Fringe)
The Jazz Centre: Colin Steele quintet (Fringe)
The Lindberg flight/The flight over the ocean and The seven deadly sins (EIF)
Mazeppa (EIF)
The real Inspector Hound (Fringe)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead (Fringe)
Shakespeare's passions (Fringe)
Troilus and Cressida (EIF)
Beautiful thing (Fringe)
Curlew river (EIF)
Dutch National Ballet (EIF)
Bach cantatas for solo voice (Fringe)
Dido and Aeneas (Fringe)
Fitz Barbershop (Fringe)
Graveyard music (Fringe)
Magdalena Kožená recital (EIF)
MacHomer (Fringe)
Michelangelo string quartet (EIF)
Monteverdi Vespers (EIF)
Monty Python's Flying Circus in French (Fringe)
Philomusica of Edinburgh (Fringe)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (EIF)
Les liaisons dangereuses
Tartuffe
