Hang Time review – a chilling picture of the horrors of racial violence
Royal Lyceum theatre, Edinburgh Three men bicker and reflect like they’re chatting at a bar – yet this grimly beautiful piece of theatre at the Edinburgh international festival won’t let you forget their fate Three men are shooting the breeze. “We’re just talking – man to man to man,” says Slim (Kamal Bolden), an ex-con who believes in looking after number one. In a literal sense, he is right. They are just talking.
Open original article- Ledger record
- #2037
- First seen
- 23 Aug 2026, 17:38 UTC
- Last checked
- 24 Aug 2026, 08:55 UTC
- Version history
- 1 version
- Current fingerprint
02941163eb78...39ad29
Publisher layer
Recorded article metadata
- Publisher
- The Guardian
- Country
- England / United Kingdom
- Source published
- 22 Aug 2026, 10:14 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- Mark Fisher
- Section
- Edinburgh festival 2026
Royal Lyceum theatre, Edinburgh Three men bicker and reflect like they’re chatting at a bar – yet this grimly beautiful piece of theatre at the Edinburgh international festival won’t let you forget their fate Three men are shooting the breeze. “We’re just talking – man to man to man,” says Slim (Kamal Bolden), an ex-con who believes in looking after number one. In a literal sense, he is right. They are just talking.
Change layer
Observed version timeline
-
1
Hang Time review – a chilling picture of the horrors of racial violence
Royal Lyceum theatre, Edinburgh Three men bicker and reflect like they’re chatting at a bar – yet this grimly beautiful piece of theatre at the Edinburgh international festival won’t let you forget their fate Three men are shooting the breeze. “We’re just talking – man to man to man,” says Slim (Kamal Bolden), an ex-con who believes in looking after number one. In a literal sense, he is right. They are just talking.
Changed fieldstitlebylinedescriptionTextcontentTextsourcePublishedAtsourceUpdatedAtsectionimageUrltags- Version SHA-256
02941163eb78...39ad29- Capture SHA-256
cd7051ea5c9e...76db91
Interpretation layer
Labels with declared origins
Publisher categories are copied from source metadata. Machine signals report observable wording or format and do not determine truth, intent, ethics, or wrongdoing.
- machine content-type Analysis or opinion observable-rules-v1 / 70% rule confidence
- machine language-signal Investigation language observable-rules-v1 / 65% rule confidence
- publisher category Culture rss-category
- publisher category Edinburgh festival rss-category
- publisher category Edinburgh festival 2026 rss-category
- publisher category Race rss-category
- publisher category Stage rss-category
- publisher category Theatre rss-category
Public response layer
Reception snapshots
Comment counts and samples remain absent until a lawful, source-specific capture method is reviewed. Absence is recorded instead of estimated.
Evidence layer
Capture provenance
- Capture ID
- #1688
- Observed
- 23 Aug 2026, 17:38 UTC
- HTTP result
- 200 / parsed
- Raw payload
- 475,322 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
- Public boundary
- metadata and excerpt