Is love a tender thing… it pricks likes a thorn

Arguably Shakespeare’s most passionate and heartbreaking drama, Romeo and Juliet unravels the tangle of emotions in the hearts and minds of the forbidden lovers, and their friends and families.

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Two events at the Book Festival this week have got us thinking about Berlin in the 30s. The first was the event with Martin Davidson to promote his new book “The Perfect Nazi”, which tells the extraordinary true story about his German grandfather, who was a committed Nazi and member of the SS.
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Following the death of Edwin Morgan last week, the Book festival is to hold a special event on Monday 30th August to celebrate the life of Scotland’s first National Poet. Ron Butlin, Robert Crawford, Douglas Dunn, Janice Galloway, Kathleen Jamie, Jackie Kay, David Kinloch, Don Paterson, James Robertson, Alan Spence and Hamish Whyte will read poems by Edwin Morgan and pay their personal tributes. The event starts at 8.00pm and lasts one and a half hours It will be chaired by Richard Holloway and will be free of charge.
Tickets can be booked on-line at www.edbookfest.co.uk or by phone on 08753735888.

If you can face the horrors of early morning Edinburgh traffic, two real treats await you at 9am at the Traverse Theatre. First the complimentary bacon roll and coffee – they are delicious- then the series of short specially commissioned plays that make up “Impossible Things Before Breakfast“. |inline