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Scotsman
24-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 Hot Tickets: Here are 31 four and five star comedians returning this August - from Garry Star to Amy Gledhill
It's very nearly August, which means it's time to scour the Edinbugh Festival Fringe programme for the best shows to see. The physical programme has over 3,350 shows across 265 venues, meaning it can be a daunting task to work out what exactly you are going to see. While it's fun to take a punt and hope for the best, it's sometimes nice to go for a known quantity - a performer who has delivered acclaimed shows in the past. At The Scotsman we review hundreds of shows every year, with the best receiving a sought-after four or five star rating. While previous success is no guarantee that they will deliver the goods again, it's as good an indicator as any - particularly since many of the shows in Edinburgh have never been performed before. So, here are all 31 returning comedians who earned a four or five review from us in 2024 - and what we said about their shows. 1 . Amy Gledhill: Make Me Look Fit On The Poster Amy Gledhill is returning this year for two performances only of last year's Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning show. What we said: "Amy Gledhill is a woman in possession of a treasure trove of funny stories from her life – and boy, does she know how to animate them." (Four stars). | Contributed Photo Sales 2 . Amy Mason: Behold! What we said about last year's show: "A wonderful example of belated, begrudging self-acceptance channelled into a consistently very funny performance." (Four Stars) | Contributed Photo Sales 3 . Ania Magliano: Work in Progress What we said last year: "Ania Magliano has taken a huge step. She's moved in with her lovely boyfriend - the first time she's lived with someone. And it's going quite well. But this being an Ania Magliano show, there is more to this." (Four Stars) | Contributed Photo Sales 4 . Chloe Petts Chloe Petts has two shows at this year's Fringe - 'Big Naturals' and 'Miscellaneous'. What we said about lasat year's show: "The charismatic comic demonstrates her wide appeal with a range of great material, from her woeful school education about sapphic relationships to this being the golden age of the butch lesbian." (Four Stars) | Contributed Photo Sales
Ammon
08-02-2025
- General
- Ammon
Hidden portrait found under Titian masterpiece in Cyprus
Ammon News - Researchers in Cyprus have discovered a hidden portrait that lay undetected for centuries beneath a 1570 oil painting by Renaissance master Titian, a rendering of which is now on display in the city of Limassol. The newly discovered work shows a unidentified man with a thin moustache, quill in hand, standing next to a stack of papers or books - a prosaic image compared to the scene of Jesus Christ, bound and wearing a crown of thorns, that Titian later painted over it. The painting "holds a secret, and the secret is that there is, unknown until now, a painting underneath," said Professor Nikolas Bakirtzis, who leads a team at the Cyprus Institute (CyI), a non-profit educational body. The finished artwork, called Ecce Homo - meaning "Behold, The Man" in English - shows Jesus standing next to Pontius Pilate, who presided over the last stages of Jesus' trial before he was crucified. The painting was being prepared for conservation when researchers put it under a microscope and noticed different pigments through the craquelure, or pattern of fine cracks that form on the surface of old paintings. "It was like uncovering a puzzle," said Bakirtzis. Using a combination of imaging and non-invasive analytical techniques, researchers at the Andreas Pittas Art Characterization Laboratories (APAC) at CyI pieced together the full, buried portrait. Based on the X-ray visuals, experts then created an oil painting of the man. "It is clearly the portrait of a banker, a lawyer, some professional man in his workspace," said Bakirtzis, an art and architectural historian who is the director at APAC. An exhibit of Titian's painting as well as a rendering of the hidden portrait opened in Limassol in late January and runs until March 10. Born Tiziano Vecellio in 1488, Titian, together with his studio in Venice, produced hundreds of paintings until his death in 1576. Reuters
