The Unending Ode

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  • My third Fringe 5-star: Weather Girl

    My third Fringe 5-star: Weather Girl

    I felt so cocky going into the festival with tickets to see one of the month’s most anticipated and in demand events – a show that had sold out its season before august really even began. Being in Edinburgh before the chaos really kicked off gave me my edge as a punter (however much my… Read more

  • Fringe #2: Heartbreak Hotel et al

    Fringe #2: Heartbreak Hotel et al

    Like an Inside Out for melancholic adults, Heartbreak Hotel is a luminous journey through the anatomy of a heartbreak: atomising the touchpoints of a relationship breakdown into charming, palpable vignettes of life that manage to tell a still-waters-run-deep kind of story beneath its organic dialogue and superbly inhabited acting.  I am always sceptical about how… Read more

  • Curtain up! Fringe time, baby.

    Curtain up! Fringe time, baby.

    Burnt out, overwhelmed and delighted to announce that we’ll be taking a break from regular (ahem… intermittent) programming to focus on all things EDINBURGH FRINGE this dizzying and hallowed (and busy) August. For the whole month I’m kicking about, burning the candle at both ends, and committing to sharing incontrovertible highlights of theatre making and… Read more

  • Finding family in the brother of the more famous jack: rediscovering a masterpiece like a homecoming

    Finding family in the brother of the more famous jack: rediscovering a masterpiece like a homecoming

    I have never been one to reread books. I have this heady presumption that clever, learned people are widely read (sometimes in place of well-read), and approach a reading list like I always have to make up for lost time. (How many years am I going to go on, continuing to be a woman who… Read more

  • Shelf-help #3: The Vast Venn Diagram of Memoir and places to disappear into over a summer

    Shelf-help #3: The Vast Venn Diagram of Memoir and places to disappear into over a summer

    I know you’ve all been wondering: where has Bridget gone? My library of excuses vary in legitimacy: Has she been reading a lot? By some definitions of “a lot”, yes. By others’, forgive me. Has she disappeared? Officially, kinda! Sometimes it takes two whole idle months of unemployment to pack up your life and move… Read more

  • Music makes a classic: operatic moments that work perfectly on screen

    Music makes a classic: operatic moments that work perfectly on screen

    I was in my share house kitchen with a flat mate, tidying up after a whimsical little dinner party where we pretended we were dining in some intimate trattoria somewhere on the west coast of Italy, and I’d performed the role of overbearing and overfeeding matriarch in our little weeknight Mediterranean fantasy. The ceiling lights… Read more