PICK OF THE DAY
MUSIC Kae Tempest
The EIF’S eclectic Leith Theatre series continues with this appearance by the muchcelebrated, twice Mercury Prize-nominated London spoken word performer, novelist, and rapper, here showcasing their new album The Line Is A Curve.
Leith Theatre, 8pm, www.eif.co.uk
FILM After Yang
It’s the final day of the Film Festival, culminating in closing night movie After Yang, starring Colin Farrell and described by our critic Alistair Harkness as “the sort of slowburning sci-fi drama that’s so quiet and modest in its conception of the future you almost don’t notice how rich in ideas it really is”. Today’s lineup also includes a morning screening of the much-loved Japanese animation Your
0 Name, Juniper, starring Charlotte Rampling, and The Score, a drama starring Johnny Flynn and Will Poulter as singing crooks.
After Yang, Vue Omni 12, 7pm. Full Film Festival listings at www.edfilmfest.org.uk
THEATRE
A Little Life
Ivo Van Hove is the director of this new adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s hugely popular novel, which follows the fortunes and failures of four male friends – Jude, a disabled genius; Willem, an aspiring actor; Malcolm Irvine, a successful architect, and Jeanbaptiste, an ambitious painter – over the course of 30 years. Dutch actor Ramsey Nasr has already won the Louis d’or (Best Male Performance) for his portrayal of Jude.
Festival Theatre, tonight and tomorrow, 6pm, and 22 August, 2pm.