The Edinburgh Reporter Newspaper February 2020

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February at The Queen’s Hall
3 February 2020
Doors open 7.00pm
Judy Collins
£27
Award-winning singer-songwriter
is esteemed for her interpretations
of traditional and contemporary
folk standards and her own
poetically poignant compositions.
She will highlight new material
from ‘Winter Stories’.
5 February 2020 7.30pm
Scottish Ensemble: Chamber
Notes
£5-£14
Felix Mendelssohn: String Octet
in E flat major
George Enescu: Octet for Strings
in C major
With guest director: Marianne
Thorsen, violin
8 February 2020 7.30pm
Ute Lemper: Rendezvous with
Marlene
£12-£32
This show is based on a 3-hour
phone call between Dietrich
and Ute in 1988. Tonight Ute
tells Marlene’s story, singing
her fabulous songs from all the
chapters of her life, from the Berlin
cabaret years to her fabulous Burt
Bacharach collaborations.
12 February 2020 7.30pm
Classic Rock Show
£23.50-£38.50
Paying tribute to many of the
world’s all-time classic rock greats,
the musicians power through
legendary performances from Led
Zeppelin, Dire Straits, Eric Clapton,
AC/DC, Queen, The Eagles, The
Who and much more.
13 February 2020 7.30pm
Black Glass Ensemble
£12-£17
New Music Scotland Award
winner, and The Queen’s Hall
Associate Artist, Michael Begg
unveils his astonishing new
collective, the Black Glass
Ensemble, which combines the
cream of Scotland’s chamber
players and longstanding pioneers
of the UK’s avant-garde electronic
underground. Support from
Glasgow-based Irish composer
Linda Buckley.
14 February 2020 7.30pm
Rob Roy with live
accompaniment by David Allison
£10-£14
This impressive and rarely
screened biopic of one of
Scotland’s best-known outlaws,
stars David Hawthorne in full
tartan kilt and tammy and tells the
story the MacGregors in the early
18th century.
Multi-instrumentalist and
composer David Allison, will
accompany the film with a new
score commissioned by the
Hippodrome Silent Film Festival.
15 February 2020 7.30pm
Mairi Campbell and The
Pendulum Band
£8.50-£18.50
Mairi Campbell, ever questing for
new musical experiences, brings
together some of the country’s
finest musicians to make up the
Pendulum Band. Ranging from
the tender re-setting of Burns’s
‘Lea Rig’ to the pulsating, rhythmic
whirl of ‘The Rough with the
What's on in brief
Edinburgh The Worst
Edinburgh World Heritage invite
you to a humorous guide to the
worst places to visit in Edinburgh
in times gone by with author
Charles Maciejewski
On Thursday 6 February 2020 at
6.00pm
Lecture venue: Augustine United
Church 41 George IV Bridge, EH1
1EL Tickets £12. Tel 0131 220
7731
Creative Circles : On the Road
This event takes place at the
Smooth’, this is music to move
your heart and your feet.
20 February 2020 7.30pm
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
£6-£37
Beethoven: Overture, Coriolan
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto
No 1
Schubert: Symphony No 4 in C
minor ‘Tragic’
Nicolas Altstaedt: Conductor/
Cello
21 February 2020 7.30pm
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra
£3-£25
Planet Wave by Tommy Smith
and Edwin Morgan featuring
actor Niall Greig Fulton. Through
music, theatre, sound effects and
poetry, explore waves of history
from the beginning of time to the
construction of the great pyramid.
23 February 2020 3.00pm
SCO Afternoon Recital
£6-£16
Mozart: Piano Sonata No 10 in
C, K330
Beethoven: Trio in C minor, Op 1
No 3
Mozart: Piano Concerto in A,
K414 (String Quintet version)
Kristian Bezuidenhout:
Fortepiano
SCO String Ensemble
24 February 2020 7.45pm
Pavel Kolesnikov
£16-£25
Programme to include:
Liszt: ‘Wilde Jagd’ from Études
d’exécution transcendante; ‘La
Cloche Sonne’ S238; ‘Vision’ from
Études d’exécution transcendante;
‘Wiegenlied’ S198
Beethoven: Sonata Op 31/2 ‘The
Tempest’
Schubert: Sonata in C minor
D958
27 February 2020 7.30pm
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
£6-£37
Haydn: Symphony No 52 in C
minor
Beethoven: Triple Concerto
Mozart: Symphony No 38
‘Prague’, K504
Kristian Bezuidenhout: Piano /
Harpsichord / Conductor
Benjamin Marquise Gilmore:
Violin
Philip Higham: Cello
SCO PLATFORM, 6.45pm:
Performance by students from the
City of Edinburgh Music School
Bookmarket in Waverley Mall on
18 February 2020 from 8.30am
to 10.30am. Registration is free.
You will meet fellow creatives
and freelancers in a creative
space. You are promised coffee,
community shout outs and
opportunity to speak to the
Fruitmarket team and find out
about progress in Market Street.
Animate at Manipulate
Edinburgh’s Manipulate visual
theatre festival launches with
dancers from “Sketches”, a show
featuring a series of vignette
dance performances by Scottishbased
choreographer and
performer Katie Armstrong.
Manipulate is an innovative
festival of international, awardwinning
visual theatre, puppetry
by Adam Zawadzki
A selection of awards season
favourites is coming to a cinema
near you in February.
Oscar nominee Margot Robbie
(Bombshell) reprises her role of
Harley Quinn in the superhero film
‘Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous
Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)’
from the 2016 film ‘Suicide Squad’,
for which she won the Critics’
Choice Award for Best Actress in
an Action Movie.
Due for release on 7 February
2020, the film is the eighth
instalment in the DC Extended
Universe and features Ewan
McGregor (Doctor Sleep) alongside
Robbie, who also co-produces.
Also released on the same day is
the fantasy adventure ‘Dolittle’ with
Oscar nominee Robert Downey
Jr. (Sherlock Holmes) as Hugh
Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle as well as
and animated film showing at
Edinburgh’s Summerhall and
The Studio venues and starting
on Friday 31 January 2020 and
running until 8 February 2020
Performers Lucy Ireland
and Katie Miller are pictured
practising “Sketches” on The
Meadows, Edinburgh. www.
manipulatefestival.org
At the cinema this
month
Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory)
and Michael Sheen (Far from the
Madding Crowd) in other live action
roles.
Oscar winners Emma Thompson
(Late Night), Rami Malek
(Bohemian Rhapsody), Octavia
Spencer (The Shape of Water) and
Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One
Night) feature in a high profile voice
cast giving life to the animals.
Another adventure film will
be distributed on 21 February
2020. Oscar nominee Harrison Ford
takes the leading role in ‘The Call of
the Wind’, a remake of the 1935 film
of the same name, itself based on
the 1903 novel by Jack London.
Nominated for two Satellite
Awards, ‘Dark Waters’ is released
on 28 February 2020 with Oscar
nominees Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight)
and Mare Winningham (Georgia)
and Oscar winners Anne Hathaway
(Ocean’s 8) and Tim Robbins
(Mystic River).
Mount Strange and
the Temple of Fame
This is the new art exhibition
at Summerhall which runs until
15 March 2020. The fact that it
will be in place over International
Women’s Day is a big clue that all
of the artists are female.
These are four women with very
different backgrounds and styles.
Their aim is to uncover some
forgotten histories and only dimly
imagined pasts for this multi-room
staging curated by Edinburgh
based contemporary visual arts
specialist Wendy Law.
It presents work showing how
women have either been written
out of or have simply just never
appeared in history when written
down. There are six galleries
inviting you to wonder what is real
and what is not.
We met three of the four artists
along with Wendy and had a chat
with them to try and bring you
a flavour of what you will see
when you visit Summerhall in our
podcast which you can access on
Anchor.FM by scanning the QR
code below.
And with work as diverse as this
there is bound to be something
that tempts and interests
everyone, men and women.
Victoria Clare Bernie is a
visual artist concerned with the
tension between natural entropy
and human design, exploring
wildness through human
minutiae. Her film Mount Strange
and the Temple of Fame gives
the exhibition its title. She is
presenting two other films,
including Daedalus - exploring the
mysterious true story of Hitler’s
Deputy’s fateful flight to Scotland
in search, perhaps, of a peace
treaty - and Office of Woods.
In Queridas Viejas (Old
Mistresses), Maria Gimeno stages
a gendered intervention on
the ‘bible’ of art history; E.H.
Gombrich’s The Story of Art. Using
a sharp tipped kitchen knife
and an academically rigorous
approach, Gimeno carefully inserts
the artists Gombrich ‘forgot’ - the
women - and invites us to examine
our own relationship with art
Play a part in the Easter Play
A restaurant, Easter Road
football stadium, The Scottish
Parliament, a nightclub and a
police box are among the venues
to be used for an ambitious
citywide retelling of the Easter
story this year.
People of all faiths and none
from across the city will join
together to tell the story of the
trial, death and resurrection of
Jesus in a large-scale community
passion play.
The director is now looking for
community groups and individuals
who would like to take part this
April.
Contact the team by email
hello@edinburghpassion.com
The weekend-long event, which
is being produced by Cutting Edge
Theatre, will start on Thursday 9th
April with the Last Supper, telling
the story hour-by-hour in real time,
and conclude on Easter Sunday
(12 April 2020) at Easter Road
stadium.
As part of the weekend, a new
version of the traditional Easter
history, and the primarily white,
male collections of our major art
institutions. On 8th March, Marie
Gimeno will perform Queridas
Viejas for the first time in the UK
to celebrate International Women’s
Day in the Anatomy Lecture
Theatre.
Glasgow-based, Iranian-British
artist and facilitator Mina Heydari-
Waite’s work is concerned with
hierarchical dynamics in cultural
history and cultural participation.
Her work (Hamsafar / Companion
Traveller) investigates the role
diasporic identity plays by weaving
together semi-imagined histories
of the Iranian diaspora created
after the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
Alix Villanueva is a multi-media
Edinburgh-based artist and
cosmoecologist, interested in the
use of the strange and the folkloric
within ecological thought and in
investigating where domesticity
and the wild entangle. She is
presenting items worn during her
happenings, including ‘Landscape
Play will be staged in Princes
Street Gardens on Saturday 11
April 2020.
Meanwhile, The Edinburgh
Passion will take the story out
into the city, into restaurants,
nightclubs, churches, parks and
the homeless community.
The story will be split into hour
long segments and brought to life
in theatre, music and dance by
groups from all over the city.
Director Suzanne Lofthus, a
leading director in community
theatre in Scotland, was inspired
by The Passion, a 72-hour
production staged in 2011 in Port
Talbot by National Theatre Wales
and Michael Sheen, involving over
1,000 people from the town as
cast and crew.
She said: “We’ve staged the
Easter Play in Princes Street
Gardens for 15 years. This year,
we want the whole city to tell the
story.
“The events of Easter are almost
continuous — the trial of Jesus
happens through the night — so
Skirt’ - a healing ritual. MOUNT
STRANGE AND THE TEMPLE OF
FAME
Victoria Clare Bernie, Maria
Gimeno, Mina Heydari-Waite and
Alix Villanueva
Fri 24 Jan 2020 - Sun 15 Mar
2020 11am - 6pm daily (closed
Mondays & Tuesdays)
Summerhall.
Sciennes, Corner and Meadows
Galleries Admission: FREE
that gave us the idea of telling the
story in real time in different parts
of the city and involving different
local groups of all kinds.
“The people in the Easter story
were just ordinary men and
women to whom something
extraordinary happened.
"We are surrounded by similar
stories in our everyday lives, we
just don’t always see them.
“A lot of my work is with those
who find themselves more on the
sidelines, whether that’s adults
with additional support needs or
people in prisons. I’m aware of
how often we box people in and
create barriers.
“This project is about tearing
down those barriers, celebrating
our humanity and seeing how
powerful and inspiring it is when
we leave those differences behind
and work together.
"Someone described the project
as a tapestry — it may look messy
behind the scenes but when
you weave it together, it creates
something beautiful.”
Actor Sam Rowe (who plays Christ) is pictured with his “disciples” and followers in “Dine” restaurant
in Edinburgh’s Lothian Road area - one of the featured venues. PHOTO Colin Hattersley
SCAN HERE!
Festival of
Ireland 2020
This year’s Edinburgh Festival of
Ireland runs from Friday 13 March
to Saturday 21 March 2020 with a
Grand Finale Concert on Saturday 28
March.
The Festival will include music, song,
dance, comedy, storytelling, film, a
ceilidh and an Irish themed family
day out and pageant on Portobello
promenade.
Festival Committee Chair Willie
Haines said “Edinburgh’s unique
Festival of Ireland continues to grow
bigger and better. As with our very
successful Festival in 2019 there
will be something for everyone in our
celebration of all things Irish. A warm
welcome and a smile is assured and
we expect visitors and guests not
just from the Capital city but from
across Scotland, other parts of the
UK, Ireland and overseas”.
www.edinburghsfestivalofireland.org