http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-entsScottish Stage and Visual Arts News | Herald ScotlandenCopyright 2012 Herald & Times Group all rights reservedSat, 26 May 2012 15:40:02 PDTCopyright 2012 Herald & Times Group all rights reservednoScottish Stage and Visual Arts News | Herald Scotlandhttp://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/visual/thomas-heatherwick-on-london-buses-hairy-buildings-and-a-180ft-tall-kerplunk.1337997871http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/visual/thomas-heatherwick-on-london-buses-hairy-buildings-and-a-180ft-tall-kerplunk.1337997871Thomas Heatherwick is a designer.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/silence-is-deafening-as-cuts-to-arts-budgets-fail-to-inspire-indignation.17687454http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/silence-is-deafening-as-cuts-to-arts-budgets-fail-to-inspire-indignation.17687454Which of us, over recent weeks, has not warmed to the stance of plucky little Greece, hurling the demands for austerity back in the face of the big boys of Europe and refusing to accept that they cannot object to cuts across the board and keep the euro?http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/arts-news.17687054http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/arts-news.17687054Curtain up on summer festivalhttp://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/visual/hirst-and-last.1337911447http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/visual/hirst-and-last.1337911447In the end almost all of Damien Hirst's art deals with endings.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/john-peels-shed-perth-theatre.17687022http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/john-peels-shed-perth-theatre.17687022I was much tickled to be told that John Osborne played his Fringe hit show to its largest audience ever in Perth on Wednesday evening.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/come-been-and-gone-macrobert-stirling.17687221http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/come-been-and-gone-macrobert-stirling.17687221"I sing with impertinence, shading impermanent chords, with my words -" And oh by jingo how Bowie's words resonate when – as is not always the case – Michael Clark dances the Intermission solo in the final section of come, been, gone.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/one-day-in-spring-oran-mor-glasgow.17660103http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/one-day-in-spring-oran-mor-glasgow.17660103This week the curtain comes down on the Play, Pie, Pint/National Theatre of Scotland mini season of work looking at the Arab World.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/behind-the-doors-of-a-dj-legends-shed.17657388http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/behind-the-doors-of-a-dj-legends-shed.17657388When legendary Radio 1 DJ John Peel died suddenly in 2004, it left a musical and cultural void that has never quite been filled.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/we-are-all-platform-easterhouse.17637302http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/we-are-all-platform-easterhouse.17637302HHHhttp://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/the-barber-of-seville-perth-theatre.17637281http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/the-barber-of-seville-perth-theatre.17637281HHHHhttp://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/breakin-convention-festival-theatre-edinburgh.17637286http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/breakin-convention-festival-theatre-edinburgh.17637286HHHHhttp://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/modern-ballet-performance-rcs-glasgow.17637297http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/modern-ballet-performance-rcs-glasgow.17637297HHHHhttp://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/visual/masters-of-the-mount.1337479444http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/visual/masters-of-the-mount.1337479444Mount Stuart House on Bute, seat of the marquesses of Bute, is a popular tourist destination and rightly so.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/lunchtime-revolution.17622645http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/lunchtime-revolution.17622645The last time I interviewed dramatist David Greig for this newspaper, ahead of the Scottish transfer of his Macbeth sequel Dunsinane, he was in New York, working on the book for the Broadway musical of Roald Dahl's Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/visual/drawing-from-both-barrels.1337393069http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/visual/drawing-from-both-barrels.1337393069The 10-day-long Perth Festival, now in its 41st year, kicked off in style two days ago with the English Touring Opera's Barber Of Seville.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/visual/a-brush-with-the-tangled-love-life-of-burns.1337306654http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/visual/a-brush-with-the-tangled-love-life-of-burns.1337306654I do not know whether it amused the late George Wyllie (although most things did), but it is passing strange that artists are now admired for working across different disciplines where such behaviour might have been dismissed as identifying a dilettante but a short while ago.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/soul-searching-claire-sweeney.17604973http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/soul-searching-claire-sweeney.17604973When I was seven ...http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/danza-contemporanea-de-cuba-festival-theatre-edinburgh.17609236http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/danza-contemporanea-de-cuba-festival-theatre-edinburgh.17609236Nothing in this first-ever Scottish performance by Danza Contemporanea de Cuba (DCC) is quite what you would expect – and that, along with the athletic energy and unstinting versatility of the dancers, makes this programme a lively introduction to a thoroughly likeable company.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/fight-night-tron-theatre-glasgow.17610740http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/fight-night-tron-theatre-glasgow.17610740The Tron's socially minded Mayfesto season may have been scaled down for this year's incarnation, but it has continued to throw out an array of theatrical firecrackers regardless.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/sleeping-beauty-insomnia-oran-mor-glasgow.17591489http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/sleeping-beauty-insomnia-oran-mor-glasgow.17591489The penultimate offering in the National Theatre of Scotland/A Play, A Pie and A Pint mini-season of work looking at the Arab world is a black comedy by Lebanese playwright Abdelrahim Alawji.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/shanghi-theatre-royal-glasgow.17601952http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/shanghi-theatre-royal-glasgow.17601952In the fantasy realms of today's animal-free circus, the thrills of traditional skills – aerial flying, acrobatics, juggling – come dressed up with a hint of a storyline, a slinky cling of much-sequinned Lycra and tightly choreographed routines that add their own dramatic flourish to impressive feats of strength and split-second brinkmanship.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/transports-of-delight.17588456http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/transports-of-delight.17588456When Molly Taylor performed Love Letters To The Public Transport System just over a year ago as part of the National Theatre of Scotland's Reveal season, it was advertised as a work in progress.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/shine-a-light-on-moment-of-clarity.17590879http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/shine-a-light-on-moment-of-clarity.17590879All too soon, it seems, Imaginate is over for another year.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/the-last-polar-bears-sorn-village-hall.17581029http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/the-last-polar-bears-sorn-village-hall.17581029"DEAR child..." and there's a genial warmth in Tam Dean Burns' voice that wraps round the wee ones from Sorn Primary school like a welcoming hug.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/minute-after-midday-tron-theatre-glasgow.17559028http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/minute-after-midday-tron-theatre-glasgow.17559028The spectre of the 1998 Omagh bombing casts a long shadow over the Irish Troubles last bloody gasp, even as it ripped a community asunder forever.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/candid-cabaret-oran-mor-glasgow.17559667http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/candid-cabaret-oran-mor-glasgow.17559667FOUR key changes and a Beyonce Knowles cover is the way to finish any cabaret, with the condition that it is sung well.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/trisha-brown-dance-company-tramway-glasgow.17581081http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/trisha-brown-dance-company-tramway-glasgow.17581081NO matter how well other companies follow in the steps of Trisha Brown's choreographies, watching her own dancers on-stage leaves you feeling you've heard her intensely particular movement vocabulary being spoken by "the natives" as it were.nonadult