Theatre

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

Alfred Jarry's original production of Ubu Roi in 1896 caused riots on its opening night and has since shaped…
Never having been to see anything at the free fringe, I had no idea what to expect.
As the man himself admits at the end of the show, the big old barn that is Traverse 1 is really a bit too…
Of all the constituencies who might find themselves drawn to this production, it is undoubtedly the smallest…
Terminus is a play for three actors in rhyming couplets. Not the easiest form, nowadays at least, for…
You have to spare a thought for poor old Chekhov. There he is, a writer who created a whole genre that…
As I write this, the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics is sprawling across my TV screen, making me…
There are times, as a reviewer, when I find myself making a mental note to check afterwards how much the…
This is the second visit to Edinburgh for Lynn Manning’s engrossing one-man show, which tells the story of…
Visitors to this website of more than a couple of years’ vintage will remember that we used to have a scoring…
The Battle of Pots and Pans is based on a battle that took place in l745 in the southeastern Scottish town of…
A new company, Dragonfly, bring to the Fringe a tender-hearted, if rather predictable, story about family…