Theatre at the <a href="/events/edinburghfringe">Edinburgh Fringe</a> and <a href="/events/eif">Edinburgh International Festival</a>.
Theatre
The multi coloured geometric shaped external space of Pleasance Beside, designed by Simon Scullion, is the…
The Usher Hall was full for this ingenious presentation of a much-loved and legendary operetta. There was an…
What should you do if two men walk on stage, then, for no apparent reason whatsoever, one of them suddenly…
The thin line between madness and genius has long been a subject of great fascination for audiences worldwide…
Rhodri Miles does a marvellous impersonation of Burton’s voice – capturing his distinctive, rich tones.
A man who has been travelling stands on stage. He has just arrived from somewhere else – some nameless place…
A feisty stride across Scotland’s history.
The notorious bullet catch trick, where a bullet fired at the mouth of the magician is caught in his teeth,…
Currently dominating the advertising for the EIF, Alan Ayckbourn’s new play The Divide, in two parts, can…
Janis Joplin might be gone, but more than forty years since her death, she is still not forgotten.
One day you are young and the next you are old. Age slowly creeps up on us all, unbidden, unnoticed.
Ah, Kafka. Poster boy for the alienated, tortured artist. Dying from apparent starvation shortly before his…
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen"
1984, George Orwell
When a play has the Masterson seal, it very rarely disappoints. After surviving nineteen
years on the Fringe…
Despite huge expectations due to Circa’s formidable reputation, their latest show, Closer, still manages to…
This latest show by David Hughes Productions is inspired by the myth and legend of Sawney Bean, a Scottish…
Under the low-ceilinged, whitewashed cellar bar of Henderson’s, not so unlike that in Burns’ cottage, the…
Linda Marlowe plays a washed-up actress-turned cleaner who preferred treading the boards to scrubbing them.
‘Knowledge and a Girl’ is Howard Barker’s re-imagining of ‘Snow White’ as tragedy.
There is something deeply ancestral about the effect of unaccompanied Scottish psalms on even the most…