Donald Stewart, Author at SNACK: Music, film, arts and culture magazine for Scotland

Donald Stewart

A FACE: Show looks to highlight the brains over legendary beauty (Fringe Review)

3 Stars Instructed by Aphrodite to choose a husband, Grecian beauty Helen chooses Menelaus, ...

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Black Russian: A Real Black Mormon Missionary in Moscow (Fringe review) 3 Stars ***

Black Russian: A Real Black Mormon Missionary in Moscow is a solo biographical performance ...

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Actor Jude Bain holding script pages during a rehearsal with another cast member blurred in the background.

Interview: Grid Iron’s Judith Doherty and Ben Harrison Talk ‘Mayflies’ and Post-Industrial Scotland

Published in 2020, Andrew O’Hagan’s Mayflies was an immediate sensation. The book charts the ...

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We Have A Dream (Fringe Review) 4 Stars

4 Stars The disappointment of the World Cup in 2026 had a dress rehearsal ...

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Elena Arvigo wearing a gas mask in profile against a textured blue wall in the stage production Atomic Tales.

Atomic Tales: Elena Arvigo Channels the Tragedy of Chernobyl (review)

Atomic Tales tells the heart-rending story of Lyudmila, wife of one of the Pripyat ...

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Dribble: Connecting Scotland and Brazil’s Football Heritage (Edinburgh Fringe) – Interview

As we start to recover from the disappointment of the World Cup, the Fringe ...

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A group of nine performers in matching light blue jumpsuits and vibrant, patterned superhero-style capes posing triumphantly in a row on a large, fallen tree trunk. The scene is set outdoors in a rural landscape under a soft sky.

Interview: ‘Afronauts’ on Staging the Ultimate Underdog Story of the Space Age

In 1964, Zambia was getting ready for independence. Science teacher Edward Mukuku Nkoloso, who ...

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A photograph of artist James Gladwell, a smiling man with a beard and glasses wearing a blue and white checkered shirt, sitting at a work table in a studio with a piece of fabric featuring an intricate line-drawn embroidery pattern in front of him.

Interview: Project Ability on Bringing James Gladwell’s Dream-Inspired Art to Glasgow

Project Ability – Scotland’s foremost visual arts company for people with learning disabilities and ...

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