Tara Fitzpatrick

Hello! I am a journalist and writer from Glasgow, Scotland currently with STV News.

I have worked in local and national news for over five years.

I am also a keen arts writer and have covered gigs across Glasgow's vibrant music scene and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Here you can learn more about me and find a portfolio of my work. Please feel free to get in contact. 

Reporting and Features

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Over 200 sexual misconduct cases against Police Scotland officers in four years

Hundreds of cases of sexual misconduct were made against Police Scotland officers over the last four years – yet not one resulted in dismissal.

Shocking new figures reveal there were 245 counts of sexual misconduct made against 166 police officers and special constables in Scotland but no dismissals were made.

The damning statistics have been uncovered from a Freedom of Information request made by Channel 4 Dispatches programme.

The findings come as part of a wider investigation into sexual m
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National Coming Out Day: LGBT Scots open up on celebrating their identity

National Coming out Day celebrates LGBT awareness on October 11 every year.

Scots within the community have shared their own experience of coming out to loved ones in a bid to celebrate their true self and support those who choose to keep their identity a secret.

"It’s the only way that you can achieve a sense of self worth"

A Scots barrister who came out as gay 46 years ago said times have changed for the better but warned society is at risk of going backwards.

Alan Inglis came out to his d
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Women seeking abortions face 'postcode lottery' on harassment, say campaigners

The Scottish Government are putting women seeking abortions at risk of harassment and intimidation with a ‘postcode lottery’ on protection, say campaigners.

Opposition parties and campaigners are calling for the SNP to commit to protest-free ‘buffer zones’ around abortion facilities to protect women from harassment.

It comes as American-based anti-choice group 40 Days for Life began carrying-out ‘prayer vigils’ at facilities across Scotland yesterday, which will run until the end of October.
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Care workers earning below living wage in Scots councils despite fair pay vow

Six of Scotland’s councils have been found to have care worker jobs advertised with care providers with rates below the Real Living Wage despite making promises to pay at least that much.

Figures obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) and the Daily Record show the frontline work is being advertised with salaries short of the UK’s Real Living Wage of £9.50 per hour.

Care jobs commissioned by Fife, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, South Lanarkshire and Stirling wer
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Scots former heroin addict hooked on drugs for 20 years becomes support worker

A Scots former heroin addict whose family relationships 'fell apart' during his 20-year drug addiction has turned his life around to become a support care worker.

Tony Donachy first starting using drugs when he was just 14 and turned to heroin at the age of 18.

The now 40-year-old almost died during his devastating addiction which lasted until his mid-thirties, until he finally made the decision to reach out for help.

Tony, from Glasgow, now uses TikTok as a way to educate others common assum
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Son of asylum seeker in Glasgow allowed to stay and grow up a 'Scottish boy'

The orphaned son of an asylum seeker has been told he can permanently stay in Glasgow and grow up a “Scottish boy” after living under the threat of deportation for a decade.

Giorgi Kakava lived in fear for 10 years that he would be returned to his birth country of Georgia without any of his friends.

The 13-year-old has now shared his relief and delight after the UK Home Office finally granted him the right to remain indefinitely allowing him to stay in his home city of Glasgow.

The teen said
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Man freed from immigration van after Glasgow protest 'overwhelmed' by support

A man detained in a van by the Home Office prompting a mass street protest in Glasgow has said he is “astonished” and “overwhelmed” by the support of the community.

Lakhvir Singh was detained along with Sumit Sehdevi when officers from the UK Border Agency raided a property in Glasgow’s southside this morning.

The 34-year-old, from India, was later freed after police made the decision to order the release of the two men.

It came after members of the public surrounded the van on Kenmure Street
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Scots women share experiences of harassment ahead of vigils for Sarah Everard

Women across Scotland have been sharing their experiences of sexual harassment and intimidation ahead of a candlelit vigil in memory of Sarah Everard this evening.

People in Glasgow and Edinburgh will hold virtual online vigils at 6pm to light candles for Sarah Everard and demand streets are made safe for women “regardless of what you wear, where you live or what time of day or night it is”.

Edinburgh organiser Chloe Whyte, 20, bravely shared her own experience of being attacked on the street
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Glasgow physicist studying Mars rocks opens up on gender inequality in science

When NASA successfully landed a rover on Mars last month Áine O’Brien, a Glasgow-based physicist, was overwhelmingly emotional.

The 29-year-old has spent the last four years studying organic compounds in martian meteorites and is working to determine whether the Red Planet has the components necessary to support life.

Watching the Perseverance rover mission come to a successful landing on February 18 this year was a moment for real celebration.

The project seeks to find signs of ancient life
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Care home relatives describe 'nightmare' of separation as visits set to restart

Scots families who have been campaigning for access to care homes say new guidance is a “huge step forward” but are pleading with the public to stick to lockdown measures to allow them to visit loved ones.

Families have been separated from their care home relatives since the country went into lockdown in March 2020.

A campaign by Care Home Relatives Scotland (CHR Scotland) has attracted the attention of tens of thousands across the country with their plea to the Scottish Government for access
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Scots mum who had cysts on both ovaries told to just take pain killers

A Scots mum has told of her years long agony with undiagnosed endometriosis as she says more widespread awareness of the misunderstood condition is needed.

Helen Buchanan, 32, passed out in work and suffered years of agony before watching an episode of This Morning by chance and learning about the disorder, in which endometrial tissue grows on your ovaries, bowel, and tissues lining your pelvis.

After being forced to pay for private healthcare due to six-month long waits on the NHS, Helen, fro
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Former Scots carer tells of 'traumatising' experience in private care homes

Physical assaults, elderly people sitting soaked in their own urine for hours and untrained staff dealing with some of society’s most vulnerable people.

This is the picture painted by a Scots former carer who spent a decade working in what she called the “traumatising” private care system.

Fiona Higgins, 33, opened up to the Daily Record of the horrors she witnessed during her career as a carer, which began at the age of 18 in 2004 and lasted until 2016 when she began a new chapter as a teache
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Scots woman shocked to discover ovaries, uterus and bowel 'glued' together

A brave Glasgow woman fought an 11 year battle with undiagnosed endometriosis before doctors realised her ovaries, uterus and bowel had been stuck together.

Sarah-Louise Kelly, 30, opened up about her agonising experience with the condition which she says robbed her of her teens and early twenties.

Sarah-Louise, from Mount Florida in Glasgow, was just 10-years-old when her periods began and instantly experienced pain.

She finally had the courage to speak with a doctor about the pain at the ag
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Scots pupil who led protest against SQA in Glasgow 'elated' after exams U-turn

A determined young campaigner was shocked when her name was read out in parliament during the Scottish Government’s dramatic exam results U-turn.

Erin Bleakley tearfully told of her joy after Education Secretary John Swinney announced all downgraded results would be reverted back to those predicted by teachers.

The 17-year-old organised a rally in George Square last week after the SQA exam board used a system to 'normalise' the results which left thousands of young people with grades lower tha
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Young Scot has chemically induced menopause after years of endometriosis hell

A brave Scots woman has told how she underwent chemically induced menopause after suffering the excruciating pain of endometriosis since the age of 11.

Rachel Currie fought for over a decade to be diagnosed after experiencing pain she described as “like being stabbed in the stomach” on a regular basis.

The 25-year-old finally received a diagnosis of endometriosis - a long-term condition affecting one in 10 women in the UK where tissue similar to the lining of the womb starts to grow in other p
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Hundreds of pupils gather to protest downgrading of exam results in Glasgow

Chants of "no classist SQA" and "what do we want? Fair grades" were heard from Glasgow's George Square as school pupils gathered this morning.

Over 100 youngsters turned up in Glasgow in protest of the "unfair" marking system imposed by the SQA.

School pupils from across the country, some travelling for hours to attend, stood together in anger over the exam marks which resulted in many being significantly downgraded from the grades they were predicted to achieve by teachers and had achieved in
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Scots schoolgirl leads protest against downgrading of results in poorer areas

A schoolgirl leading today’s protest against the SQA exams fiasco has asked First Minister Nicola ­Sturgeon why her hard work was being “wiped out” because she lives in the wrong postcode.

Erin Bleakley called on the Scottish Government to reverse the downgrading of results of thousands of children, mostly from poorer areas.

And the 17-year-old hopes today’s rally in Glasgow’s George Square will force Sturgeon and Education Secretary John Swinney to clear up the mess.

The coronavirus pandemic
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Kilmarnock support workers lift lid on nightmares of drug and alcohol addiction

Geoff Brown never believed he would suffer addiction.

Growing up in Northern Ireland with no contact to drugs made the prospect of substance misuse unimaginable.

However, at 22, Geoff was introduced to heroin and discovered that the heartbreaking cycle of addiction can knock on anyone’s door.

For the next 16 years of his life, Geoff fought a brutal battle of recovery and, despite feeling at times as though he had “no way out”, managed to transform his story into a message which can help save
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Politically engaged Kilmarnock teens are taking on the climate crisis

“I feel like if the government doesn’t act now, this crisis will never get solved,” says 14-year-old Dominika Bochenek.

Through her eco-committee, the S4 pupil at St Joseph’s Academy spends her spare time lobbying her Kilmarnock school to do more to fight the climate crisis – from reducing single-use plastic to advocating for the voice of young people.

And Dominika is not alone.

Students from across East Ayrshire are joining the climate conversation.

They take inspiration from the Swedish ac
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Brexit uncertainty causing "catastrophe" for agriculture, says Ayrshire farmer

“The frustration and the anxiety in our industry is beyond belief at the moment.”

Those were the words of East Ayrshire beef and sheep farmer Jimmy Ireland, pictured, who this week told the Standard of the increasing economic uncertainty Brexit has caused his livelihood.

Mr Ireland, of Feoch Farm near Darvel, said farmers have faced three years of dangerous volatility since the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in 2016 and warned that, unless a means of long-term certainty is es
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Kelli Gallacher takes CF drug fight to health secretary

A young woman campaigning for access to a drug which could save her life will meet with the Scottish health secretary next week.

Kelli Gallacher, 24, who lives in Renton, has cystic fibrosis and has been tirelessly fighting for access to new drug Orkambi, which could provide her with a normal life expectancy.

After writing a heartbreaking letter to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon last week, Kelli has now secured a meeting with health secretary Shona Robison on June 26.

The average life expecta
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Holyrood joins Cystic Fibrosis drug debate after brave plea from Vale woman

“I really wasn’t sure that I wanted to do the campaign,” says 24-year-old Kelli Gallacher from Alexandria. “But I realised if I do this it could help people across Scotland and then someone else might speak up.”

Last week, Kelli, who lives with cystic fibrosis, bravely fronted a national campaign with an emotional plea to MSPs for a drug which could provide her with a future.

Kelli and her family, along with Dumbarton MSP Jackie Baillie, last week met with a group of cross-party MSPs and her C
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Meet Mikey, 7, from Alexandria: The happy boy who is the "light of his family"

Little Mikey Logan is a cheeky and loving seven-year-old boy who wins over people with his beaming smile.

He is the “light of his family” says devoted mum Christina, who home schools the youngster at the family house in Jamestown.

The mum-of-six is preparing Mikey for an adult life full of possibilities and opportunities where Down’s syndrome won’t stand in the way of him achieving his dreams.

As family’s across the globe celebrate World Down’s syndrome Day on March 21, Christina spoke to the

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Scribble is an inventive take on mental ill health, but it's still a work in progress – Source

Our Edinburgh Fringe reviewer Tara Fitzpatrick found ‘Scribble’ enjoyable, although at times a little disconcerting

SCRIBBLE, written by Andy Edwards and Amy Gilmartin, explores one character and their coping mechanisms with mental health.

Ross is studying a PhD in cosmology, he suffers obsessive compulsive disorder and anxiety. He explains his views about the universe, his long-distance relationship with his girlfriend Fiona and how Bran Flakes help to organise his life.

Scribble is an enjoy
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Seanmhair is a totally immersive piece of performance – Source

CommonSpace theatre critic Tara Fitzpatrick gives her take on a “highly intense” effort from Hywel John

SEANMHAIR, from Welsh writer Hywel John, is a wonderfully acted, highly intense piece of theatre which expertly shifts between characters and timescales.

Jenny, a well-spoken, upper-class Edinburgh girl falls in love with Tommy MacLeish, a cheeky, working-class lad from Leith.

The story is told by older Jenny, looking at an older and mentally frail Tommy and remembering their first meeting.
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Show Me The Money tackles the financial struggles of those in the creative industries – Source

CommonSpace theatre critic Tara Fitzpatrick reviews Paula Varjack’s take on the thorny issue of trying to finance making a living in the arts

SHOW ME THE MONEY is a performance and personal discussion by writer and theatre maker Paula Varjack about working in a creative industry and the value we place upon it.

Specifically, the play is about money, or rather the lack of it within creative fields and the struggles this presents for people who try to make a living in the arts.

Addressing the au
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The North! The North! is a truly dark experience - not for the faint hearted –

CommonSpace theatre critic Tara Fitzpatrick says there were a few nervous looks for the exit during this Christopher Harrisson effort

THE North! The North!, created and performed by Christopher Harrisson, is a dark, uncomfortable fable unlikely to be enjoyed by the faint-hearted.

Entering the run-down interiors of one of Summerhall’s many lecture theatres, Harrisson greets his audience with a sincere thank you for attending. “It’s so sunny out there and you chose to come in here with me,” he s
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The plot twist in 'Heather' makes for an electrifying experience – Source

Our Edinburgh Fringe reviewer Tara Fitzpatrick says ‘Heather’ contains an explosive, revealing turning point

HEATHER is a play with a twist. The programme has asked that when discussing the play we keep the secret so, in that spirit, this is my formal warning that my review contains spoilers.

Those looking to see Heather during the Edinburgh Fringe’s final week or catch it during touring, you have been warned.

It is clear from the beginning of Heather that something is not quite right. The dr
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Award-winning production explores the inner conflict inside the head of women –

“NO one wants to see a woman get angry.” This is the lightbulb moment in Mouthpiece, the UK premiere of Quote Unquote Collective’s award winning piece exploring the inner conflict inside the head of women.

Using sound, movement and text, Canadian performers Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava navigate the social concepts and politics of the female voice over the course of a day. One women, Cassandra, discovers her mother has died and, tasked with writing and giving the eulogy, she realises she has
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A clear and uncompromising take on Europe's refugee crisis – Source

Theatre critic Tara Fitzpatrick reviews The Sky is Safe, Dogstar Theatre Company, Summerhall’s main stage, 4– 27 August (then touring Scotland)

THE Sky is Safe, Dogstar Theatre Company’s fifth Edinburgh Fringe show, is a play with a clear and uncompromising take on the misery and injustice of Europe’s Refugee Crisis.

The award-winning company behind The Tailor of Inverness have premiered their new work, directed by Ben Harrison, at Edinburgh’s Summerhall which collides multiple narratives expl
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Tara Fitzpatrick: Bold performances and direction make for an entertaining The Lying Kind –

Our brand new theatre critic Tara Fitzpatrick kicks off with her take on The Lying Kind from the Tron Theatre Company

THE Scottish premiere of Anthony Neilson’s 2002 farcical comedy, The Lying Kind, is an outrageous, and at times uncomfortable, production about the morality of withholding or distorting the truth for the greater good.

The setup is straight forward. Two feckless, young police officers, Blunt (Martin McCormick) and Gobbel (Michael Dylan), arrive at the door of an elderly couple o
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Tara Fitzpatrick: Adulting is inventive, heartfelt, endearing and leaves a smile –

Our Edinburgh Fringe reviewer, Tara Fitzpatrick, gives her take on ‘Adulting’

THE FRINGE debut from Spilt Milk theatre company is more of an informal chat than a play.

The four cast members – Catherine Ward-Stoddart, Grant McDonald, Jacqueline Thain and Anthony Byrne – divulge personal secrets and intimate stories throughout the hour-long performance, with each scene forming a new creative way to engage the audience in their own devising process.

‘Adulting’ is a verb meaning ‘to adult’ and im
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Alan Bissett's Moira Bell is a breath of working class fresh air at the Edinburgh Fringe – Source

Our Fringe reviewer Tara Fitzpatrick doesn’t think we’ve seen the last of the Moira Monologues

ALAN BISSETT returns with his feisty, loud-mouthed Moira Bell, “the hardest woman in Falkirk” for a second round of sassy monologues.

The Moira Monologues premiered in 2009 and, looking to update the popular character, Bissett has written six new scenes for the cleaner and single-mother tackling (among other things) sexual escapades, neighbourhood gossip and Scottish independence, all told by Moira t
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Letters to Morrisey is a classic coming-of-age story, especially for all the world's outsiders –

Our Edinburgh Fringe reviewer Tara Fitzpatrick says Letters To Morrisey will speak to anyone who’s ever fallen in love with The Smiths

GARY MCNAIR’S fictionalised monologue of a teenager writing to his musical hero is touching and hilarious.

The hour-long performance follows a doe-eyed fan as he looks to The Smiths frontman for life advice.

Following a similar set up to McNair’s previous, critically acclaimed work (Gary Robertson is Not a Standup Comedian and A Gambler’s Guide to Dying), this
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'Adam' is spectacular in scope and brings a vital real life perspective on trans issues – Source

CommonSpace theatre critic Tara Fitzpatrick says ‘Adam’ should be seen by as wide an audience as possible

GENDER is everywhere. It fuels our identity politics and governs our life choices and behaviour. The distinctions of gender are so entrenched that they even permeate our everyday language.

Adam Kashmiry identifies this in his opening monologue to Adam, the National Theatre of Scotland’s (NTS) new production based on the story of his own transgender experience.

“I like English,” he states,
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Album Review: Taylor Swift, reputation

“The old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now…” Having gone almost entirely off the grid since that celebrity-spat with Kanye and Kim Kardashian-West, Taylor Swift is back with a dramatic reinvention and her most ostentatious marketing campaign to date.

‘Reputation’ her sixth album, is a 15 track analysis of fame, friendship and disloyalty. If the overarching theme of 1989 (Swift’s ground-breaking fifth album from 2014) was triumph, Reputation’s is defensiveness.

However, the question is:
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Fringe 2017: Award-winning feminist play, Mouthpiece, comes to Edinburgh (video)

Mouthpiece, by Quote Unquote Collective, is a devised performance from Canadian theatre makers Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava. Having won ‘Best New Canadian Play’ at the Toronto Theatre Critics Award for 2016/17, the two-woman show is performing at Summerhall’s CanadaHub as part of the Edinburgh Fringe 2017.

The play follows one woman (played simultaneously by Nostbakken and Sadava) over the course of one day, as she discovers she has lost her voice. The performance,which was also directed by
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Fringe 2017: Alan Bissett revisits his ‘hardest woman in Falkirk’ with (More) Moira Monologues

Alan Bissett is off duty. Temporarily. We meet in Glasgow as he prepares for the Fringe premiere of (More) Moira Monologues, the sequel or update to his hit 2009 one-man (or one-woman) show about a loud, chatty, working-class Falkirk woman, getting things off her chest. He is enjoying a post-rehearsal wine and is feeling optimistic for the fast-approaching festival.

Bissett is no stranger to the madness of the Fringe, having revived his 2009 performance for a 10-night run last year, however whe
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Fringe 2017: Spilt Milk debut explores the complexities of adulthood

“There are all these books on “Adulting” now, it’s become such a buzzword.”

The cast of Spilt Milk are explaining the title of their Fringe debut. “Adulting” is a verb relating to any action associated with adulthood: paying bills, navigating relationships, renting a flat, cooking. The term alludes to the notion that adulthood is a performance, carried out by people who are only good at pretending to know what they’re doing. Over the past few years the term has taken hold, from internet memes t
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Fringe 2017: Portraying the Refugee Crisis in The Sky is Safe by Dogstar Theatre Company

The Syrian refugee crisis has fallen off our news channels lately. This is despite the number of people fleeing the conflict having risen past five million this year, according to the UN. However, where the news cycle may have moved on – temporarily – to different issues, many performances at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe festival are keen to bring the humanitarian crisis back to centre stage.

One such example is the new work by Dogstar Theatre Company who are returning to the festival for the f
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TV Review: The Handmaid’s Tale, Series-One Final Episode

Few television dramas, however unpredictable, have struck a chord in quite the same way as The Handmaid’s Tale. Led by Elizabeth Moss, it has made the same, if not a greater, cultural impression in one series as Breaking Bad made in six.

Leaving aside the parallels between the theocratic, brutal state of Gilead and the events of our current times (we’ll come back to that later), The Handmaid’s Tale has offered a glimpse of a world many women, and men, may have thought unimaginable yet portrays
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Album Review: Lana Del Rey, Lust for Life

Lana Del Rey returns with her fourth studio album full of her staple brand of bluesy, sultry melodies with a topical and often lighter twist.

The most continuously striking thing about Lana Del Rey is how little her music, since her critically-acclaimed debut Born To Die in 2012, sounds like anything else in the industry. The languid tones and slow-rhythmic choruses coupled with her low, ethereal vocals are difficult to compare with the her contemporaries.

It is a testament to Del Rey’s own ar
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Film Review: The Beguiled

The latest film from award-winning director Sophia Coppola has split opinion across the World. Here’s what our three reviewers had to say.

TI: Sofia Coppola is a director with an auteur sensibility and, on first glance, her new film, The Beguiled, seems to stray as far from the recognisable flourishes which mark out her films as anything else in her body of work.

However, they are all still here, buried in a ripe, gothic tale set in civil war stricken America. The fact they shine through as Co
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Bikes, pastries and Hygge: 72 hours in Copenhagen

This summer I visited Copenhagen for the third time. My introduction to the Scandinavian city came when I visited a friend studying in Lyngby, a modern town just outside the city centre. I then returned the following year with the same friend who was missing the modern chic vibes of the city she had once called home and in May I was back for a third time. I have fallen for the Danish capital, let me tell you why.

The freedom to sip an ice cold beer by the city’s lakes or freely ride a bike with
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Theatre Review: Shackleton

The typical tropes of a shipwreck feature little in Blue Raincoat Theatre Company’s performance of explorer Ernest Shackleton’s doomed 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition which breathes creative new life into the historical voyage, 100 years after its completion.

There are no dynamic thrills or heroics but a delicate, detailed performance which captures the vast isolationism of the Antarctic and the battle of the elements which Shackleton’s crewmen endured.

Beginning with a painstakingly

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FilmSpace Podcast 002: Dunkirk, The Big Sick, Cinema vs Netflix –

CommonSpace film critic Scott Wilson and theatre critic Tara Fitzpatrick are back with episode two of the FilmSpace Podcast

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE who listened to the pilot of FilmSpace Podcast. We’re so excited by how CommonSpace continues to grow, and I’m personally overwhelmed by the support received after our first episode.

For episode two, we celebrate the launch of The Shape of Water’s trailer, discuss The Beguiled and how it’s been received, talk about the merits of cinema versus on dema
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FilmSpace Podcast 001: The pilot –

CommonSpace film critic Scott Wilson and theatre critic Tara Fitzpatrick launch the brand new FilmSpace Podcast

COMMONSPACE IS GROWING. It continues to break news, shed light on injustice, and inform its readership. As it develops, so too does its output, and our Magazine section is thriving. Here, our film critic Scott Wilson and theatre critic Tara Fitzpatrick introduce the FilmSpace Podcast.

The million dollar question is – why?

We, and I in particular, hope you enjoy our film coverage. We
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Fringe 2017: Award-winning feminist play, Mouthpiece, comes to Edinburgh (video)

Mouthpiece, by Quote Unquote Collective, is a devised performance from Canadian theatre makers Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava. Having won ‘Best New Canadian Play’ at the Toronto Theatre Critics Award for 2016/17, the two-woman show is performing at Summerhall’s CanadaHub as part of the Edinburgh Fringe 2017.

The play follows one woman (played simultaneously by Nostbakken and Sadava) over the course of one day, as she discovers she has lost her voice. The performance,which was also directed by
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Fringe 2017: Portraying the Refugee Crisis in The Sky is Safe by Dogstar Theatre Company

The Syrian refugee crisis has fallen off our news channels lately. This is despite the number of people fleeing the conflict having risen past five million this year, according to the UN. However, where the news cycle may have moved on – temporarily – to different issues, many performances at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe festival are keen to bring the humanitarian crisis back to centre stage.

One such example is the new work by Dogstar Theatre Company who are returning to the festival for the f

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