The Edinburgh International Festival kicked off with a bang at Murrayfield Stadium with MACRO - a joyful celebration of Australian and Scottish culture in this fusion of circus, dance, and music - drew over 10,000 spectators to the free event.
The show, a co-production with Adelaide Festival, featured a cross-cultural musical collaboration between Djuki Mala and five revered Celtic musicians, including Aidan O'Rourke (fiddle), Kathleen MacInnes (vocals), and Brighde Chaimbeul (pipes). A breathtakingly beautiful arrangement and a taste of what the EIF programmes has to offer this August. Here are few of my recommendations:
Karen from Finance (Underbelly Bristo Square, until August 29) is leaving the office, so pack your calculators, save your spreadsheets, and set your automatic email response! She's on the road, and she's on it hard. Leave the 80-hour work week behind and board the Finance Express for this one-woman journey of self-discovery and self-annihilation. Karen from Finance, a beloved Australian drag queen, presents her debut one-woman show Out of Office, which features all of her trademark high-camp and hilarious mashups, as well as all the tomfoolery you can poke a presentation pointer at.
@karenfromfinance
Rouge, (Assembly, The Mound until August 21) Australia’s circus celebration of the sexy and subversive, makes its Ed Fringe debut with a slew of erotica. It’s the only show where you can enjoy the antics of three dancing unicorns and a dominatrix, as well as sensational acrobatics, operatic cabaret, and tongue-in-cheek burlesque. Rouge definitely breaks conventions, and it does so with an abundance of humour that has earned it awards and international critical acclaim. I know it’s only week one and I’ve yet to see such more, but this show is outstanding and ti
@rougetheshow
Tweet: @HelloSkapa
IG: @HelloSkapa
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here