American Doctor General release From November 20 Medicine meets politics in Poh Si Teng’s documentary about a Palestinian-American emergency doctor, a Jewish-American orthopaedic surgeon and a secular American trauma surgeon who volunteer in Gaza in the face of bombardment, medical shortages and personal danger.


Theatre The Bridge Bush Theatre, London October 28–November 11 A young man carries a gift of olive oil from Jenin to Amman. Actor and comedian Alaa Shehada gives a broadside against British broken promises in Palestine.


Donald Theatre Royal, Bath November 6–December 5 Stefano Massini, who won five Tony Awards for The Lehman Trilogy, turns his attention to the 45th and 47th president of the United States and his journey from property and golf course developer via reality TV to disruptor in chief.


Spotlight Scottish originals


NUJ photographer Douglas Robertson has a busy sideline as a gig promoter. He and his partner Jane-Ann Purdy put together a year-round line-up of small shows in Edinburgh – sometimes in their house – with a focus on Tradfest in the spring and the Soundhouse Winter Festival in November. “Each year, we aim


The Gang of Three On tour, October 27 –November 21


The Labour leadership contest of 1973, dramatised by Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky, stars Alan Cox as Tony Crosland, Hywel Morgan as Roy Jenkins and Colin Tierney as Denis Healey.


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to bring audiences the very best music being produced in Scotland at Winterfest,” says Robertson. “There is a huge wealth of home-grown talent and we carefully


curate this festival from that pool. Our aim is to bring audiences the music they love and, at the same time, artists they might not see anywhere else.” This year’s event


kicks off with Edinburgh-based Irish singer Heidi Talbot, named composer of the year at the 2023 Scots Trad Music Awards, and singer-songwriter Boo Hewerdine, known for his long-time


collaboration with Eddi Reader. The long weekend continues with Ray Aggs and Eilidh Rodgers, aka Sacred Paws (pictured), with their Afrobeat and post-punk fusion. Then come singer-


songwriter Jake Cogan, saxophonist Matt Carmichael and folk musician Malin Lewis with a new, self- invented two-octave small pipe. “There will be no act


that we are not super excited to see playing,” says Robertson. “We hope that excitement is infectious.”


Soundhouse


Winter Festival, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, November 26–30


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