Fyre Festival, the disastrous 2017 music festival organized by convicted fraudster Billy McFarland, is apparently returning for round two. “As of right now, Fyre Festival II tickets are officially on sale,” McFarland announced in an Aug. 21 video post shared on Instagram. “It has been the absolute wildest journey to get here, and it really all… Continue reading About Billy McFarland’s Controversial Music Festival
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Let the Bodies Pile review – awkward effort to hold government to account over Covid | Edinburgh festival 2023
Hyde, Manchester, in the 1990s. Frank and Georgie’s 78-year-old mum has just died while in the charge of local GP Harold Shipman. Was Frank, her live-in carer, partly to blame for surrendering her to the care of “Dr Death”? Fast-forward more than 20 years, and we find Frank mute and motionless in a Hyde hospice,… Continue reading Let the Bodies Pile review – awkward effort to hold government to account over Covid | Edinburgh festival 2023
Blood of the Lamb review – acutely tense drama of reproductive rights | Edinburgh festival 2023
The tension builds from the minute a nervous, slightly dazed woman is led into a dingy airport antechamber by a lawyer who is avoiding eye contact. It tightens, in Arlene Hutton’s taut two-hander, as the US state lawyer, Val (Elisabeth Nunziato), first distracted, then bristling, treats Nessa (Dana Brooke), more like a criminal than someone… Continue reading Blood of the Lamb review – acutely tense drama of reproductive rights | Edinburgh festival 2023