Poetry and storytelling
Poetry and storytelling
A stripped-back, return to roots production, this year’s Loud Poets focuses simply on what they do
Award winner Richard Gadd performs a tense and deeply personal view into his complicated relationship with
This performance would appease parents at a drama club showing but not as a Fringe Production.
“Maker, ye maun sing them…
Tomorrow, songs
Will flow free again, and new voices
Be borne on the carrying…
The 2019 Edinburgh International Book Festival launched the “most international programme in its history”…
Cinderella, Snow White, Hansel & Gretel... We all know a tale that features an evil stepmother with the…
Join us at the Edinburgh Iranian Festival to celebrate the launch of The Book of Tehran published by Comma…
A (free) stroll down The Royal Mile pointing out all famous places connected to Burns and the stories…
Audiences follow a culture trail around eight events in secret locations around the city.
The Culture Trail…
Inspired by St Andrew himself, ‘Fisherman’s Feast’ has received support through Scotland’s Winter Festivals…
Now in its fifth year, To Absent Friends is part of a Scotland-wide festival of storytelling and remembrance…
Do You See What I Hear? is a collaboration by two award-winning performers, one a composer and the other a…
Amsterdam is a casual and contemporary spoken-word performance exploring themes of identity, love, and art,…
Love Songs is the true story of a hopeless romantic encountering the millennial dating world and…
In a hand-built garden shed at the edge of the Pleasance Courtyard is a room of perfect intimacy.
Filled with records, poetic musings, and beautiful love poems, this show is like stepping into the poet’s own…
De Profundis is the most personal and wrenching of Oscar Wilde’s works, written not as a ‘work’ but as an…
Harry and Chris are two genuine best-mates taking their best-matery and their individual talents to create…
This August, Edinburgh-based Scottish poet Ken Cockburn brings a new walking tour to the Capital’s Royal Mile…
"PRÉVERT, PIANO & POETRY" is a concert-show created and performed by the young French pianist Alexandre…