This Is Memorial Device review – memories of fictional indie heroes burn brightly

An adaptation of David Keenan’s novel about a Scottish band who nearly supported Sonic Youth is lovingly detailed

Medea review – Adura Onashile exudes awesome authority in bloody tragedy

Liz Lochhead’s Scots verse spits wit and venom as male power meets female determination with operatic intensity, in this National Theatre of Scotland staging

Irvine Welsh’s Porno review – coarse and gutsy Trainspotting sequel

Welsh’s band of unruly misfits reunite – 15 years older – in an intense, dark farce that rushes to a conclusion all too soon

On my radar: Vicky Featherstone’s cultural highlights

The Royal Court’s artistic director raves about a non-binary memoir, admires Gordon Brown’s stand on poverty and salutes Cornelia Parker’s proper mermaid

Alan Cumming: ‘You’d be shocked by the messages Miriam Margolyes and I leave each other!’

As he brings his one-man show about ‘rockstar’ poet Robert Burns to the Edinburgh festival, the star talks about desire, debauchery and dancing in his 50s

Edinburgh festivals’ recovery could take a decade, says director

Book festival boss says next year will be a staging post in recovery that could take until 2030

Metamorphosis review – playful spin on Kafka for the Zoom age

Gregor Samsa’s sudden bodily dislocation becomes a means of exploring digital-era dilemmas in Hijinx’s irreverent adaptation

Edinburgh book festival to quit New Town for art school

Festival cites Covid and costs of staging event heavily dependent on live audiences as reason for move

Edinburgh international festival to hold more online events after 1m views

There were 26 specially staged opera, classical and ballet performances after the cancellation of live concerts

Mieko Kawakami: ‘Women are no longer content to shut up’

Traditionalists in Japan hated her feminist novel, but Breasts and Eggs was a huge bestseller. The author talks about taking on male privilege, orientalist cliches … and Haruki Murakami

Fiction readers have made best leaders in Covid-19 crisis, says Val McDermid

Crime author argues ministers who read only political biographies are limited in vision

Edinburgh’s August festivals cancelled due to coronavirus

Fringe joins international, book and art festivals and military tattoo in pulling plug

Red Dust Road review – Jackie Kay adaptation loses its way

Sasha Frost sparkles as a curious and vulnerable Kay searching for her birth parents, but this unfocused production fails to capture the intimacy of the soul-searching memoir

Kate Tempest review – this isn’t a gig, it’s a reckoning

The performance poet absorbs all of the uncertainty and anger of our times, and pours it into ferocious, apocalyptic music that both wounds and heals

Jackie Kay on putting her adoption on stage – and getting a pay rise for her successor

When Scotland’s national poet travelled to Nigeria to ask her birth father if he ever thought of her, he said no. Does it hurt to put this on stage? And should the next ‘makar’ be on £30,000?