tue 05/08/2025

David Kettle

Articles By David Kettle

Edinburgh International Festival 2019 review: La reprise

Read more...

Edinburgh Festival 2019 review: Rich Kids - A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran

Read more...

Edinburgh Festival 2019 reviews: Below the Blanket / Samson Young: Real Music

Read more...

Edinburgh Festival 2019 reviews: Enough / Spliced

Read more...

Local Hero, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh - captivating musical with a harder edge

Read more...

Possum review - mind-infecting homage to 1970s horror

Read more...

Donkeyote review - a quiet revelation

Read more...

Science Fair review - big on ambition, light on rigour

Read more...

Twelfth Night, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh - a touch too sweet

Read more...

Lammermuir Festival 2018 review - a bigger buzz

Read more...

The Prisoner, National Theatre review - Peter Brook's latest falls sadly flat

Read more...

Edinburgh Festival 2018 reviews: Home / The Prisoner

Read more...

Edinburgh Festival 2018 review: Benedetti, Baltimore SO, Alsop - puzzlingly tame

Read more...

Edinburgh Festival 2018 review: Aimard, SCO, Pintscher - psychedelic visions

Read more...

Edinburgh Festival 2018 reviews: La maladie de la mort / The End of Eddy

Read more...

Edinburgh Festival 2018 reviews: Orpheus / Bottom / Backup

Read more...

Pages

latest in today

'We are bowled over!' Thank you for your messages... ...
Oslo Stories Trilogy: Dreams review - love lessons

Rising temperatures, prickling skin, longing’s all-consuming ache: first love’s swooning symptoms overtake 17-year-old Johanne (Ella Øverbye) in...

Káťa Kabanová, Glyndebourne review - emotional concentration...

Even more perhaps than straight theatre, opera seems to draw attention to the meaning behind what may on the face of it appear a simple story....

The Count of Monte Cristo, U&Drama review - silly telly...

Alexandre Dumas’ novel has been filmed an immeasurable number of times (there was a new French version only last year) and...

theartsdesk Q&A: filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud on sex, lo...

"First love is always both terrible and wonderful at the same time", says the 60-year-Norwegian dramatist-novelist-director...

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: Lost Lear / Consumed

Lost Lear, Traverse Theatre ...

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Alison Spittle / Christopher...

Alison Spittle, Monkey Barrel ★★★

Alison Spittle is fat, she tells us at the top of the show. But not as...

Blu-ray: Two Way Stretch / Heavens Above

The years between 1955’s The Ladykillers and 1964’s Dr Strangelove were the years of what Sanjeev Bhaskar recently described as...

Make It Happen, Edinburgh International Festival 2025 review...

You could distinctly hear the murmurs of recognition from the Edinburgh audience – responding to knowing mentions of the city’s Leith and...

Folkestone Triennial 2025 - landscape, seascape, art lovers...

A rare cloud form envelopes the headland and to the east and the west Folkestone is cut off from the known world. This mist shortens...