@DavidKettle1

Writer and editor, music and theatre, student, rarely here

david-kettle.co.uk
Joined February 2012
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#DavidKettle @davidkettle1 reviews @Edfringe 2024 - From meta-theatrical mayhem to dreams of freedom and escape in three final shows - ★★★★ L'Addition @Summerhallery / ★★★ Long Distance @ZOOvenues / ★★★★ The Sun, the Mountain & Me @FollowTheCow theartsdesk.com/theatre/edin…
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Reviews from @DavidKettle1 @theartsdesk @EdFringe 2024: Two strong @edfringe shows merge truth with fiction - to very different ends ★★★★ The Mosinee Project @FollowTheCow / ★★★★ Gwyneth Goes Skiing @ThePleasance theartsdesk.com/theatre/edin…
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From post-breakup blues to sweet-shop conflagrations in three early #edfringe2024 shows: @DavidKettle1 reviews Heartbreak Hotel ★★★★/ The Gummy Bears' Great War ★★★/ The Ceremony ★★★ theartsdesk.com/theatre/edin…
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Bringing beauty and wonder to comedy: superb, jewel-like debut hour of stand-up from @jin_hao_li @ThePleasance, feels like a fresh new voice, joyful, playful and sassy
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Jasdeep Singh Degun on his new collaboration with the Scottish Ensemble - interview by @DavidKettle1 trib.al/HGYeH8J @ScotEnsemble

Jasdeep Singh Degun on his new collaboration with the Scottish Ensemble

Immersed in both Western and Indian musical traditions, for his latest project Jasdeep Singh Degun has written a new piece “in response to” the players of the Scottish Ensemble. Interview by David...

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102 seen, 80 reviewed (4 still to go), my faves: It's a Motherf**king Pleasure @FlawBored Stuntman @wearesuperfan Heaven @Fishamble Public the Musical @stroudandnotes Gone to the Dogs @tsarzipan You Are Going To Die @AdamScottRowley (1/2)
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PLEASE LEAVE (a message) @flux_cluster Maureen @auntyjonny Dark Noon @fixfoxycompany Singing Sands @oor_theatre Thanks to all for the entertainment, provocation, shocks, smiles and all the rest
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... and hard to imagine a funnier, sillier, queerer, more downright joyful close to the Fringe than #UntrueDiana from @AwkwardProds - a final highlight of 2023
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#DavidKettle - @davidkettle1 reviews @Edfringe #EdinburghFringe 2023 - Intrusive thoughts and US abortion policy come under scrutiny in two Fringe shows - ★★★★ CHOO CHOO! @ThePleasance / ★★★★ Blood of the Lamb @ARedinburgh theartsdesk.com/theatre/edin…
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Five interlocking dystopian but heartwarming tales on love and AI from @DavidNHead @Summerhallery make for an intricate, moving show of storytelling + more
theartsdesk.com@theartsdesk25 Aug 2023
#DavidKettle - @davidkettle1 reviews @Edfringe #EdinburghFringe 2023 - Government-mandated coupledom and intractable conflicts in two Fringe shows at @Summerhallery - ★★★★ Distant Memories of the Near Future / ★★★ Soldiers of Tomorrow theartsdesk.com/theatre/edin…
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#DavidKettle - @davidkettle1 reviews @Edfringe #EdinburghFringe 2023 - Government-mandated coupledom and intractable conflicts in two Fringe shows at @Summerhallery - ★★★★ Distant Memories of the Near Future / ★★★ Soldiers of Tomorrow theartsdesk.com/theatre/edin…
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We're looking forward to kicking off a busy autumn at @LammermuirFest in two weeks' time! Rory McCleery spoke to @DavidKettle1 of @scotsman_arts about our programmes in Haddington this year, in collaboration with @LizzieSwarbrick. scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-a…

Lammermuir Festival: Marian Consort to transport audiences to 16th century Scotland

As part of this year’s Lammermuir Festival, the Marian Consort will be exploring rarely performed Scottish music from the Renaissance, writes David Kettle

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Lammermuir Festival: Marian Consort to transport audiences to 16th century Scotland trib.al/HSfGx7K @LammermuirFest @marianconsort @Davidkettle1

Lammermuir Festival: Marian Consort to transport audiences to 16th century Scotland

As part of this year’s Lammermuir Festival, the Marian Consort will be exploring rarely performed Scottish music from the Renaissance, writes David Kettle

scotsman.com
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Massively impressed (and very moved) by Singing Sands from @oor_theatre @GreensideVenue until Sat 26 - big questions of home and identity in a funny/touching tale of bickering cousins on Eigg - brilliant writing and acting
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#DavidKettle - @DavidKettle1 review @Edfringe #EdinburghFringe 2023 - A brutal history of America & an intimate examination of Scottish drug-related deaths in 2 powerful shows - ★★★★★ Dark Noon @ThePleasance / ★★★★ Concerned Others @Summerhallery theartsdesk.com/theatre/edin…
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Two strong shows in the @EdFringe's #DANISH strand offer financial temptation and otherworldly interactions - ★★★★ The Insider @ZOOvenues / ★★★★ Sensuous Governing @Summerhallery - reviews @DavidKettle1 theartsdesk.com/theatre/edin…
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#DIMANCHE @edintfest - Troubling and bewildering: climate change gets an exquisitely beautiful, gently humorous treatment by two Belgian #puppetry and #mime companies - review @DavidKettle1 theartsdesk.com/theatre/dima…
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Flirty, dirty Maureen and circus/acrobatics in Common Dissonance @houseofoz_arts @auntyjonny
theartsdesk.com@theartsdesk19 Aug 2023
In the latest edition of @edfringe dispatches @DavidKettle1 relates warm-hearted wisdom from an 80-something in #Maureen, plus ambitious circus at House of Oz #CommonDissonance theartsdesk.com/theatre/edin…
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Communicating with the far future and dream-like shadows for children @edfringe: @DavidKettle1 reviews two contrasting shows PLEASE LEAVE (a message) ★★★★/ Shadow Kingdom ★★★ theartsdesk.com/theatre/edin…
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Take a break from the Fringe mayhem with three calming, intimate one-on-one shows @Summerhallery @houseofoz_arts
theartsdesk.com@theartsdesk17 Aug 2023
Three one-on-one shows @edfringe offer absolution, advice and a choreographed blind date, writes @DavidKettle1 on Without Sin / An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World / Two Strangers Walk into a Bar... theartsdesk.com/theatre/edin…
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