Theatre

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

Following last year’s exploration in Reykjavik, Shams theatre is back with a chiller thriller set on Thin Ice…
A dramatisation of the life of  Welsh vagabond poet W. H. Davies and his association with artist Walter…
Its such a rare pleasure these days to stumble across something by relative chance, coming away energised and…
Of all the constituencies who might find themselves drawn to this production, it is undoubtedly the smallest…
The Man Who Planted Trees is the multi-award winning adaptation by the Puppet State Theatre Company of French…
David Lean’s 1945 film Brief Encounter, starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, received five Oscar…
The story of Electra, so typical of the myths and legends of Ancient Greece, has murder and revenge at its…
The National Theatre of Scotland has the ironically inclusive slogan of ‘theatre without walls’ having in…
"Hello, I've got the perfect table for you..." intones the head waiter. Not words frequently heard in…
The play revolves around the alleged love affair Beethoven had with one of his piano pupils the Countess…
Arth and Buck are two men stuck in a rut. Their lives are going nowhere and are controlled by making money…
As the swimwear clad cast back crawl across the stage to the beach we find ourselves on strange new shores.
As the title suggests this multimedia production centres around the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a…
You just can't go wrong with zombies, can you? They are both scary and funny in equal measure. Pure…
A young troupe of Russian performers has a show on at the Assembly Roxy unlike any other.
Many years ago, at the end of a play, a noted Scottish dramatist in the next seat muttered, ‘It’s just…
How do you solve a problem like Ada Lovelace? Or indeed one like Charles Babbage?
Yasmin is a smart cookie and has always had a way with words. She is also an angry young woman.
There is something fishy going down at Fingers. New Town has become New York for a cabaret tale of a…
Samuel Clayton’s Statements is a masterclass in character performance, that deals delicately, yet…