CLAIRE PENÇAK set up Tabula Rasa Dance Company in 1999, and is the company’s Artistic Director

In the second of his reports on the Highland Lives project, JOHN BURNS finds both his medium and his subject matter

Dundee Contemporary Arts, until 14 August 2007

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies Shakespeare’s Scottish play has inspired some of the most illustrious names in the film world, from Roman Polanski to Orson Welles and Akira Kurosawa. There is no reason that ‘Macbeth’ could not withstand a fresh telling, but a new version from ‘Romper Stomper’ director Geoffrey Wright is an awkward, unpersuasive […]

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, until 29 July 2007

SUE WILSON skims the waves to check out the launch of Skerryvore’s new album on Tiree

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies HOW OFTEN can one man be in the wrong place at the wrong time? Bruce Willis proves that there is no end to the possibilities in ‘Die Hard 4.0’, his belated return to the role of world-weary policeman John McClane. The latest Summer blockbuster is a surprisingly watchable, big budget […]

Orkney, 22-27 June 2007

SYMON MACINTYRE and his colleagues at the Leith-based Puppet Lab have three major projects coming up in the Inverness area, beginning with performances of Beauty and the Beast this month

GEORGINA COBURN examines the work of the Harris-based artist Steve Dilworth