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Valentines.

February 14, 2013

Edinburgh had lately enjoyed three days of unbroken sunshine and everybody was wondering when it was going to end. It …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Moth to the Flame.

August 6, 2012

There are only two days – but four performances – left of Annie McCourt’s innovative and award-winning new play “Moth …

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Trial By Water.

April 2, 2012

I had known Marcin for over three years before I finally met his elder brother. I think that I was …

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Elegy for an Unemployed Youth.

February 29, 2012

Anybody leaving school these days, without a job or any further education waiting for them, is comparable to the man …

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Postscript in an Uncertain Hand.

November 4, 2011

Tomasz Korcz had ducked out of the party to retrieve an envelope of vitamins from his home. The house seemed …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Secret Window, Secret Garden and Thugz N Tearz.

August 30, 2011

One’s final hours at the Fringe are awash with grief and guilt at all of the plays that have been …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: First Light.

August 26, 2011

Murray Watts‘ “First Light,” which is presently playing at Hawke and Hunter, ostensibly spends a night with the chaplain of …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Time for the Good Looking Boy.

August 26, 2011

[The following contains mild spoilers.] Michael Wicherek’s “Time for the Good Looking Boy,” which is currently playing in the Pleasance …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Haverfordwest.

August 25, 2011

Tychy occasionally tutors Highers students, they are invariably from rich families, and it is often unnerving to be exposed to …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: A Clockwork Orange.

August 19, 2011

Action to the Word‘s take on Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange has been forged in the same fire as their …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: E.A. Poe… Into the Mind of Madness.

August 11, 2011

American High School Theater Festival visit the Fringe every year, circling their wagons at Pollock Halls and appropriating the Pilrig …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Bones.

August 8, 2011

Kids sometimes play a drinking game called “mystery drink,” in which the loser has to swallow a concoction of unpleasant …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: Thirty Two Teeth.

August 7, 2011

[The following contains plot spoilers.] Samuel (Ollie Gyani) was born prematurely and with a bust heart, and, according to the …

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Tychy@ the Fringe: My Best Friend Drowned in a Swimming Pool.

August 6, 2011

It is the first Friday night of the Fringe and the streets are sweltering in a high fever. There is …

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Book Review: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

May 17, 2011

[The following was originally written as a contribution to MANSIZE - Tychy’s English Literature support series for GCSE and Higher …

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