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Sometimes at the Edinburgh Fringe, you take a punt on a random show because it's close by and you can't be bothered walking any further. Justina Seselskaite's set was round the corner and started in 7 ½ minutes - so we scurried into one of the less glamorous rooms of…

Part of going to The Fringe is to expose yourself to new ideas, different art forms, and a range of artworks. Not everything needs to be a "zany" comedy about AI or a loving pastiche of that 1990s disaster movie you love.

So I found myself sat in a Unitarian…

So, The Expanse is over, at last, and I will probably write a different post talking about the whole series and my thoughts overall. For now, these are only my thoughts on the last book, let’s get to them, after the summary!

The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen…

🎼"Hamlet's Mum Has Got It Going On"🎵

There you go, now you've seen the show. That's about the height it reaches. Distil the tortured Prince of Denmark down to an hour and sprinkle in parody pop songs.

It so nearly works. There are a few good chuckles and a smattering…

Afrofuturism is a hot topic in the world of sci-fi. This is the circus version of "For All Mankind" where the Zambia Space Academy (a 100% real thing) attempt to land on the moon and win the space race.

Told in an acrobatic style, naturally.

It is delightful…

I usually take the bus to work, this is provided for free by my workplace.

Today however, I was on a rush, I got out of my house way too late and I knew I would have to run if I wanted to make it in time…

I didn’t want…

It is a brave children's show which starts with the song "I'm a smooth muthafukker"…

This is sort of a live-action XKCD cartoon. A frenetic troupe of performers are decked with hand-drawn portraits and then… well, it is somewhere between a Sesame Street animation and the stick-figure kung-fu Flash animations…