Neil Cooper@NeilCooper1

Writer and Critic - The Noise of Art - neilcooper.substack.com. @heraldmagazine. @thelistmagazine @FlemingArtColl. @The_Drouth

 Edinburgh
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Joined May 2011
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New on The Noise of Art… The Noise of Art Annual 2025 - That was the Year that Was open.substack.com/pub/neilco… From DJ Kulu to Creeping Bent, with Band of Holy Joy, The Sexual Objects, Irvine Welsh, The Kinks, Cabaret Voltaire and more between. This is where I came in.
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Coming soon… (6.15pm today), I’m hosting a Q&A with Graham Fellows following a 20th anniversary screening of It’s Nice Up North, his 2006 film made with photographer Martin Parr and featuring Fellows’ alter ego John Shuttleworth. Still a few tickets left filmhouse.org.uk/home/
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My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine Herald review of Happy Days, Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece starring Siobhán Redmond & Forbes Masson in Roxana Silbert’s new production. heraldscotland.com/life_styl… @pitlochryft Pitlochry Festival Theatre until Oct 10. pitlochryfestivaltheatre.com…
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New on The Noise of Art… Shop Local! #161 neilcooper.substack.com/p/sh… Scott Lawrie Gallery: Mote 102: City Art Centre: Dalkeith House: Out of the Blue: Royal Scottish Academy: Edinburgh College of Art: Dunbar Parish Hall: North Edinburgh Arts: Filmhouse: Wee Red Bar:
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A year since the @citizenstheatre reopened its Glasgow Gorbals home after 7 years redevelopment, my @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine look at how it’s been, from Small Acts of Love to 1984 & all points between. Part end of term report, part love letter. heraldscotland.com/life_styl…
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My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine review of Antigone, Lulu Raczka’s 21st century reimagining of Sophocles’ tragedy, revived in Finn den Hertog’s new production heraldscotland.com/life_styl… @TronTheatre Glasgow until Oct 10 tron.co.uk/shows/antigone/ Image by Mihaela Bodlovic.
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My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine review of The Whaler’s Wife, Izzy Gray’s Orkney set lunchtime play at A Play, a Pie & a Pint. heraldscotland.com/life_styl… Òran Mór, Glasgow, until 26 Sep, then Edinburgh, Ayr, Fairlie, Ballantrae, Ochiltree
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New on the Noise of Art… Mackenzies - A Dog’s Breakfast neilcooper.substack.com/p/ma… As Mackenzies return after 40 years to launch their album of no-holds-barred agit-funk, a look back at when they played Splash 1 in Glasgow 4 decades ago. @creepingbentorg @FRETSCONCERTS
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Sax & violin(s) ahoy tonight at @fruitmarket Fruitmarket Edinburgh, where TFEH presented John Butcher (saxes) & Angharad Davies (violin) in duo, plus Fritz Welch (drum etc) & Firas Khnaisser (drum etc) also in duo, before a closing 4tet. More to come. ticketsource.com/tfeh
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New on the Noise of Art… From the archive… The Steamie - A Modern Classic neilcooper.substack.com/p/th… As Tony Roper’s almost 40-year-old play based around 4 women in a Glasgow washhouse goes out on a new tour, a 2012 interview with Roper as it celebrated its silver jubilee.
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New on The Noise of Art… Shop Local! #160 neilcooper.substack.com/p/sh… Out of the Blue: Scott Lawrie Gallery: City Art Centre: Dalkeith House: Mote 102: Banshee Labyrinth: La Belle Angele: Leith Cricket Club: Leith Arches: Fruitmarket: Abbeyhill Primary School: Abbeyhill:
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RIP Bonnie Greer, playwright, thinker, & more. In 1987 she appeared at the @traversetheatre in Amy Hardie’s play, Noah’s Wife.& look who & what was on next… Quite a season. Image of @joycemcm ‘s Traverse book, with a chronology by John Carnegie, care of @Katheri48033429
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My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine review of SIX, the poptastic extravaganza that reinvents Henry VIII’s wives as a girl band to tell their stories. heraldscotland.com/life_styl… @captheatres Edinburgh until Sep 26, Glasgow, Inverness & beyond. All tix - sixthemusical.com/uk-tour/ti…
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My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine Herald review of FEEL_GOOD, Amy Conway’s new lunchtime play about a robotic affair at @PlayPiePint A Play, a Pie and a Pint. heraldscotland.com/life_styl… Òran Mór Glasgow until Sep 19. playpiepint.com/whats-on/eve…
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New on the Noise of Art From the archive Rest in Power, Persis Jadzé Maravala 1970-2026 - Hotel Medea Remembered neilcooper.substack.com/p/re… In honour of theatre director Persis Jadzé Maravala, a 2011 interview on Hotel Medea, an overnight epic that took Edinburgh by storm
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Chuffed to be hosting a Q&A with Graham Fellows for a 20th anniversary Edinburgh screening of It’s Nice Up North, as Fellows’ alter-ego John Shuttleworth visits the Shetlands with photographer/director Martin Parr @Filmhouse Edinburgh Sept 25 6.15pm filmhouse.org.uk/movie/john-…
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New on the Noise of Art… From the archive Iain Heggie - Wiping My Mother’s Arse neilcooper.substack.com/p/ia… With Iain Heggie’s farce having received its first stage revival in 25 years, a look back at a 2001 interview introduced by a musing on Heggie’s neglected back catalogue
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New on The Noise of Art… Shop Local! #159 neilcooper.substack.com/p/sh… Out of the Blue: City Art Centre: Dalkeith House: Scott Lawrie Gallery: Sneaky Pete’s: Fruitmarket: Outhouse: People’s Leisure Club: Banshee Labyrinth: Beat Generation: St. Margaret’s House: Waverley: Argonaut:
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My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine Herald review of Transparent, a new play by LC Stephens for @PlayPiePint A Play, a Pie and a Pint’s latest lunchtime theatre season. heraldscotland.com/life_styl… Oran Mor, Glasgow until Sept 12. playpiepint.com/whats-on/eve…
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My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine review of The Tailor of Inverness, Matthew Zajac’s solo play that plugs into history to tell a story of exile and survival heraldscotland.com/life_styl… Lyceum Edinburgh until Sep 8, then touring until Nov. All dates - dogstartheatre.co.uk/whats-o…
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My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine Herald look at 11 theatre shows to see in Scotland in September. heraldscotland.com/life_styl… @citizenstheatre @pitlochryft @RAWMaterialArts @TronTheatre @DogsBarThes
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