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St Andrews at the Fringe
Tuesday 21 August 2012
University staff and students took to Edinburgh this month to perform as part of the annual Fringe. St Andrews students performed Macbeth in the dramatic surroundings of Inchcolm Island (pictured), while psychologist Dr Kate Cross took her puppet act Resonant Science to perform her show Marvellous Medicine.
Kate’s show, which aims to entertain with science, involves the use glove puppets, baseball bats, and body-popping to explain how aspirin takes away pain, how smallpox was conquered and how being messy can win you a Nobel Prize.
The student production of ‘the Scottish play’ was performed (in collaboration with the Demarco European Art Foundation) on the island in the Firth of Forth, following a successful performance at St Andrews Castle as part of student arts festival On The Rocks in April.