Short Story Review: Young Skins.
It’s very hard to write about Colin Barrett’s debut collection of short fiction, Young Skins, without resorting to gender as …
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#Indyref Anguish: The Boredom Factor.
How many people will vote Yes in the forthcoming independence referendum simply because the status quo is boring? This question …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Queen B.
[The following contains spoilers.] It is a well-thumbed recipe for a Nottingham New Theatre Fringe show: the adult-themed drama which …
Dancer.
I think that I’ll probably look back on so much green as a mistake.
Nocturne (1/2).
When you are young you can take a single gulp of air and then party all around the city without …
Tychy@ the Fringe: DNA
You know that you’re getting old when a classic GCSE set text was written several years after you had finished …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Little Foot.
“Little Foot” would acquire considerably larger audiences if the company behind it kept quiet about the fact that they are …
Valentines.
Edinburgh had lately enjoyed three days of unbroken sunshine and everybody was wondering when it was going to end. It …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Moth to the Flame.
There are only two days – but four performances – left of Annie McCourt’s innovative and award-winning new play “Moth …
Trial By Water.
I had known Marcin for over three years before I finally met his elder brother. I think that I was …
Elegy for an Unemployed Youth.
Anybody leaving school these days, without a job or any further education waiting for them, is comparable to the man …
Postscript in an Uncertain Hand.
Tomasz Korcz had ducked out of the party to retrieve an envelope of vitamins from his home. The house seemed …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Secret Window, Secret Garden and Thugz N Tearz.
One’s final hours at the Fringe are awash with grief and guilt at all of the plays that have been …
Tychy@ the Fringe: First Light.
Murray Watts‘ “First Light,” which is presently playing at Hawke and Hunter, ostensibly spends a night with the chaplain of …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Time for the Good Looking Boy.
[The following contains mild spoilers.] Michael Wicherek’s “Time for the Good Looking Boy,” which is currently playing in the Pleasance …
