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In the limelight Missing years: Adil lost two years of school because of the Assam agitation   -  SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Missing years: Adil lost two years of school because of the Assam agitation   -  SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT× Actor Adil Hussain on theatre, communal amity and citizenship in a new book about Assam and its many identities * Starting his career as a stand-up comedian of Assam’s legendary Bhaya Mama group, he rose to fame post his National School of Drama days * After acting in the state’s mobile theatres and a few Assamese films, he made his debut in Bengali movies in 2004

The Skinny on… Adura Onashile As Adura Onashile's short film Expensive Shit arrives in film festival programmes this month, we quiz her about dream dinner guests and memories of the before-times Feature by The Skinny | 08 Mar 2021 Adura Onashile's short film Expensive Shit gets quite the airing in March. The project started life as a theatre production at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2016, where it won a Fringe First award, and takes us inside a Glasgow nightclub to tell the story of a Nigerian toilet attendant who has an extremely tough decision to make. Onashile adapted the pl...

MEMO in conversation with Javaad Alipoor Our conversation with British-Iranian writer, theatremaker and director Javaad Alipoor discussing his most recent play 'Rich Kids', the Iranian politics that underline it and the role of art in politics. March 3, 2021 at 11:00 am Middle East Monitor caught up with British-Iranian writer and director Javaad Alipoor this week for a conversation about his work. He has been online-touring with his latest production Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran (2019), which won the Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival. Alipoor describes h...

Fleabag creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge has hailed the "glorious return" of the world's largest arts festival - after being appointed in an honorary role for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. The position, which is the first of its kind, will see Waller-Bridge act as a representative and advocate for the Fringe Society, the charity that exists to support everyone who wants to participate in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.  The 2020 Fringe was cancelled for the first time in the event’s 73-year history due to the coronavirus crisis. In her capacity as President, Waller...