Zuckerberg docked
REMEMBER the Cambridge Analytica scandal?
How could you possibly the chill that ran down your spine with the realisation social media was sucking up your personal information without your knowing, like a midgie taking blood from the back of your ankle.
Well, just in case the time of torment has slipped past, a new F. Off, is set to transport audience members to a courtroom where they play the jury, putting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his social media colleagues ‘on trial’.
The play interrogates the extremes of social media, asking whether it is a force for good - or a platform which holds far too much power. “It is a pioneering piece, revealing the issues that the younger generation face in a digital age where we are witnessing the growth in surveillance capitalism and data swaps,” said a spokesperson.
The production is presented by the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.
F.Off, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at Belly Button, Underbelly venue August 2 – 25.
Get on up
POPULAR party funk band ‘Tom McGuire and the Brassholes are set to play their’ James Brown Show’ which as you might imagine involves the full band playing the hits of James Brown.
The Fringe Festival, at Summerhall, August 16 and The Blue Arrow, Glasgow, September 6.
Sufi first
THE FIRST ever Sufi Festival is to be held at Glasgow’s Tramway Glasgow.
The inaugural Sufi Festival offers audiences music, poetry and theatre inspired by Muslim cultures, with art exhibitions, storytelling, workshops, and ceremonial rituals of devotion included.
Sufism-inspired acts from across Britain and Europe include the multi-award-winning Khayaal Theatre, staging performances of Rumi’s Tales of Wisdom and Islamic Art Workshops led by luminary Amber Khokhar , of HRH Prince Charles commission.
There will be Nasheed musical groups, including unique Islamic 90s Hip Hop group Mecca2Medina who are re-grouping for this one gig only.
The event will also include an exhibition of rare artefacts and artworks from Islamic world in partnership with the Burrell Collection..
The Festival is free with a ticketed evening concert (£10) with Shah e Mardan, a Qawwali ensemble led by former apprentice to the late master of the artform, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, presenting “a force of mesmerising, trance-like rhythms and melodic intricacy.”
The Tramway, Glasgow and Hidden Gardens, July 28.
Sharpi comedy
COMEDIAN, author and, most recently, self-confessed “idiot who agreed to be tortured on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!” Shappi Khorsandi is returning to live comedy.
Following her limited seven night run at the Fringe in August she is extending her tour into the autumn with a handful of new dates.
The show Skittish Warrior…Confessions of a Club Comic is Khorsandi’s “warts-and-all journey through the 90s comedy scene, breaking through on telly and letting it all slip away.”
Skittish Warrior…Confessions of a Club Comic, teh Fringe, August 4-10, the Stand, and November 3, the Stand, Glasgow.
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