by Mark Fisher Out now"Every single page of this book is enhanced by Mark Fisher’s lifelong enthusiasm for, and commitment to, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe – the greatest arts festival in the world." Kath M Mainland Chief executive, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society  The infamous brother Arnott
PLAYWRIGHT Peter Arnott is off to Malibu, California this month where he is the guest of Pepperdine University. Kicking off an artistic and cultural exchange, Arnott will work with the students to develop a play about a 1932 rights march by veteran soldiers on Washington, DC – that's when he's not hanging out with showbiz types in LA. The next stage of the exchange – described by the university as "an unprecedented education and cultural collaboration" – takes place in July and August when 28 students from the theatre department will meet theatremakers in Glasgow, Edinburgh and the Highlands. After a week with playwright Eddie Stiven in Glenelg, Lochalsh, they will complete a four-week summer school at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire, before heading to the Edinburgh Fringe to perform Arnott's play and the UK premiere of Anon(ymous) by Naomi Lizuka. Pictured is the Vox Motus/Royal Lyceum production of The Infamous Brothers Davenport, written by Arnott.  Best Behaviour
GLASGOW'S Arches has announced its programme for the first half of the year. Of particular note is the two-month Behaviour festival which begins mid-March. Contributors include Robert Softley in If These Spasms Could Speak, Stef Smith with The Silence of Bees, Kieran Hurley with Beats, Gary Gardiner with Thatcher's Children and Nic Green with the latest version of Fatherland, Motherland. Also in the Behaviour line-up is Fish & Game’s Eilidh MacAskill with a series of bicycle-related events and a visit from Gob Squad (right). Elsewhere in the programme, Cora Bissett, Swimmer One and David Greig with a multimedia show called Whatever Gets You Through The Night.  Meanwhile
ALSO worthy of note is the return of the National Theatre of Scotland's Five-Minute Theatre, this time with a theme of protest. Submissions deadline is 16 March and the 24-hour internet event will begin on 1 May (left, Alison Peebles and Anne Lacey in last year's The Garibaldi Paradox) . . . Vanishing Point is running a symposium at Glasgow's Tramway on "emerging practice" next weekend (17–19 Feb) with contributions from Cathie Boyd (Cryptic), Jamie Harrison (Vox Motus) Matthew Lenton (Vanishing Point), Stewart Laing (Untitled Projects) and practitioners from other artforms . . . Zinnie Harris is among the ten finalists for the Susan Blackburn Prize for an outstanding new English-language play by a woman. Her NTS play The Wheel is one of the contenders for the award which will be announced on 28 February. OPENING SOON Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Perth Theatre, Feb 10–25 Mwana, Ankur/Tron, on tour, Feb 10–25 Passing Through, Peapod, on tour, Feb 10–Mar 4 Close and Faraway and Beauty and the Beast, Offshore Cafe, Gibson Street, Glasgow, Attune Theatre, 10–12 Feb Hand Me Down, Glas(s) Performance, on tour Feb 11–May 5 Spirit of Adventure, A Play, a Pie and a Pint, Oran Mor, Glasgow, Feb 13–18 Double Nugget (Mary Masacre/Seven Year Itch), Random Accomplice, on tour, Feb 14–Mar 10 Crossing the Lines: Adventures of a Textual Nature, Arches, Glasgow, Feb 16 Of Mice and Men, Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, Feb 17–Mar 17 LAST CHANCE TO SEE Long Gone Lonesome, NTS, on tour, Jan 19–Feb 14 Born to Run, A Play, a Pie and a Pint, Oran Mor, Glasgow, Feb 6–11 |  | |
| 30 January 2012 Northings By Hamish MacDonald. A Dogstar Theatre review. 
25 January 2012 The Guardian By Peter Arnott. A Vox Motus/Royal LyceumTheatre review. |
