Theatre at the <a href="/events/edinburghfringe">Edinburgh Fringe</a> and <a href="/events/eif">Edinburgh International Festival</a>.
Theatre
Three performers tell the tale of a town that has been abandoned due to the coal mine on which it sits…
Sitting in the plush, gilded and chandeliered interior of the Royal Lyceum Theatre, a bevelled double mirror…
Homer's Odyssey is a big story with so many twists and turns and endless analogies and metaphors the idea…
Between the air raid siren and the all-clear sounding the evening will be punctuated by three bombs falling.…
To cheat or not to cheat? That is the question posed in this latest brain teasing show with the wonderful…
Civil Rogues is a good, old-fashioned, rollicking romp and, although it follows a rather familiar formula, a…
It seems that nearly every month now we turn on the news to discover that somebody has gone missing. Somebody…
Under the low-ceilinged, whitewashed cellar bar of Henderson’s, not so unlike that in Burns’ cottage, the…
A shrewd modern take on a classic fairytale straight from Angela Carter – Twisted Tales take on The Company…
“To the woman on the Thursday morning service to St. Pancras, you had ginger hair, Aztec print dress and a…
‘And so to the Jury’s Inn hostelry, there to see an lively group of actors perform some drolls…’
The sex trade is something which Edinburgh is all too familiar with, from stag-do’s to prostitution, the city…
Modern art isn't everybody's cup of tea, but is there a chance that it could change your life?
Private Peaceful was written as a book for older children in 2003 by Michael Morpurgo while he was children’s…
Snails & Ketchup has been inspired by Italian writer, Italo Calvino’s The Baron in the Trees, the story…
In the latest production from physical theatre specialists Theatre Ad Infinitum, sometimes it is hard to tell…
Life’s a gamble…
It’s a cliché, but from our first breaths to our last gasps, each second of our lives is a…
St Jude, the patron saint of lost causes, gives his name to the grubby fictional Tube station that’s the well…
First Love, an hour-long soliloquy performed by a single character, was engagingly received by a sell-out…
It seems a mad prospect to bring an adaptation of the classic Powell and Pressburger film to the stage.…