Theatre

Theatre at the <a href="/events/edinburghfringe">Edinburgh Fringe</a> and <a href="/events/eif">Edinburgh International Festival</a>.

Camille O’Sullivan is a beguiling, unassuming tour de force.
Shauna Macdonald gives an astonishing performance in Born to Run, which is undoubtedly a unique theatrical…
It is said to be a truism that there is a "crazy" (drunk, socially clueless, terminally rude, etc.) person on…
The early morning Dream Plays are an experiment for the writers, who, when commissioned by the Traverse, were…
Something special happens when visual artists take to the stage.
It’s rare that you come across a play that produces so much tension that you fear for your safety and the…
It’s been a long time since I’ve been swept off my feet. But tonight, my heart remembered the joyous call of…
Villa Grimaldi is one of more than 1,200 detention and torture centres in Chile that were operating under the…
"Expect the unexpected" is how the Traverse describes Dream Plays (Scenes from a Play I'll Never Write),…
The Music Box takes us into the mind of a child who has been shielded from the outside world by an overly…
Now in its second fully functional year, Summerhall is increasingly proving itself as a haven for intelligent…
It’s not overly trying to apprehend the reasoning behind putting on a show like Party Time at this year’s…
It feels like we are climbing the stairs of an Edinburgh tenement, winding up until we reach the door to flat…
It seems to me that the best horrors have a recognisable sense of reality. The world is as real as the one…
The old sink in the corner of the Anatomy Lecture Theatre at Summerhall is the accidental prop that reveals…
August 1939 and 27 year-old artist, Keith Vaughan is writing in his diary, the “intimate friend to whom…
I have to admit, the first ticket I tried to get my hands on when this year’s Fringe kicked off was Charles…
Sitting sipping a latte in the genteel surroundings of the Summerhall courtyard, I'm buttonholed to go to a…
To take the words of children and put them in the mouths of adults makes for an exciting and revealing hour…
A group of actors are discovered on stage, straw tails attached to their rears, pawing the ground, whinnying…