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transport her audience with visuals, costumes and light wire sculptures, she adds, 'it’s not a piece that is about prosaic everyday life; it’s something you would see in a dream.’
(Louisa Pearson)
Lulu In La La Land (Fringe) Rosa Mei Dance Company, Continental Shifts at St Bride’s Centre (Venue 62) 346 7405, 8—19 Aug (not 73) 6pm, £7 (£5).
THEATRE PREVIEW
Goodbye Desdemona
Rogan Josh and Juliet in a new take on Shakespeare
In this devised piece, two gay men who have recently played Othello and Iago are preparing to play the parts of Romeo and Juliet. Problematic at the best of times, their troubles are compounded by the fact that rehearsals are taking place in India. The problems they face getting the play onto the stage are explored in this experimental production by the Indian Shakespeare Company, Fringe First winners last year. ’The subject matter is a bit risky generally,’ says writer/director Roysten Abel, 'but it is even more problematic within the social and political system within the country.’
In this new and interesting take on Shakespeare, Abel maintains that the symbolic romance at the core of the text will resonate well beyond Indian shores. ’It’s the love story of the new millennium,’ he says. ’We're talking about love in the context of war and everything else that’s happening around here.’ (Davie Archibald)
:2 Goodbye Desdemona (Fringe) Indian
Never a daal moment: Indian Shakespeare Company
Shakespeare Company, Augustine’s (Venue 752) 225 6575, 7—79 Aug (not 74) 6.20pm,“ 22-28 Aug, 2.55pm,
£8. 50 (f 6).
MUSIC PREVIEW
David Gray
More T for pop’s latecomer
David Gray is an Englishman. No really. ‘Everyone thinks I'm Irish, Welsh or Scottish. I was born in England and brought up in Wales.’ Now massive in Ireland with a triple platinum album (White Ladder), yet relatively unheard of just a few hundred miles east in the UK. David Gray is that rarest of breeds — the man who has released five albums and looked to be going nowhere when suddenly — BANG. Cult status in Ireland grew steadily into a massive ground- swell of support, galvanised by TV appearances, support gigs (Robbie Williams and Radiohead). America now calls, Britain is waking up.
Gray appeared at this year’s T in the Park opening the main stage on Saturday but his growth in popularity sees him sell out the Liquid Room for T on the Fringe and a packed Barrowland looms for his next show in October. He does however not take his new found popularity too lightly. ’I used to play at The Halt Bar on Woodlands Road when I was a student, up visiting pals in Glasgow,’ he admits modestly. ’It was a lovely pub. It's maybe somewhere he could visit for a pint now he's seems destined for bigger places. (Carter Brown)
9.1.: David Gray (Fringe) T on the Fringe, Liquid Room (Venue 773) 225 2564, 7 Aug, 7.30pm. 259.
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‘Hysterical observations on life, family, love and sex’
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