Theatre
The Skinny theatre guide to plays, musicals, and theatre festivals throughout Scotland. We bring you the latest news in Scottish theatre, with highlights and reviews. Get backstage access with The Skinny's exclusive playwright, director, and festival curator interviews.
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Festivals
EIF: Trojan Women @ Festival Theatre
This Korean adaptation of Euripides' classic play is a sweeping epic that showcases pansori Read more »| 10 Aug 2023 -
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Vanya is Alive @ theSpace, Symposium Hall
A one-person show presented by exiled anti-war Russian theatremakers, Vanya is Alive is unsettling, heart-breaking and remarkably compelling Read more »| 10 Aug 2023 -
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Stuntman @ Summerhall
Impressive physical work meets tenderness in this exploration of masculinity and the theatre of violence Read more »| 10 Aug 2023 -
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Lie Low @ Traverse Theatre
The UK premiere of Lie Low captures shame, interrogates culpability, and holds a mirror up to the fraught dynamics of accountability Read more »| 10 Aug 2023 -
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Did You Eat? @ Greenside Infirmary Street
Zoë Kim's solo show Did You Eat? is a bold, direct look at growing up in a Korean-American family, delivered with warmth and dedication Read more »| 09 Aug 2023 -
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Plague Stone Party on queer paganism & Farewell, Tor
Plague Stone Party (aka Ozzy Algar and Buoys Buoys Buoys) are bringing their ‘freak folk comedy’ Farewell, Tor to the Fringe. We talk to them about the show and the growing niche of queer paganism Read more »| 09 Aug 2023
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Andronicus Synecdoche @ ZOO Southside
Song of the Goat's bold, multi-disciplinary work sacrifices intersectionality in its exploration of power and sexual violence Read more »| 08 Aug 2023 -
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The Kaye Hole @ Assembly Checkpoint
The fiercely talented Reuben Kaye is back with another round of The Kaye Hole's diverse after-hours cabaret Read more »| 08 Aug 2023 -
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EIF: Dusk @ Lyceum Theatre
Brazilian director Christiane Jatahy's UK debut skilfully merges cinema and theatre to confront themes of exploitation, xenophobia, and the reemergence of fascism Read more »| 07 Aug 2023 -
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Casting the Runes @ Pleasance Courtyard
Box Tale Soup's bone-chilling M.R. James adaptation is full of invention, and horrifically captivating Read more »| 07 Aug 2023 -
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Beautiful Evil Things @ Pleasance Dome
In a riveting, energetic and vulnerable monologue, Deborah Pugh transforms into the decapitated Medusa in Beautiful Evil Things Read more »| 07 Aug 2023 -
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Wild Onion @ Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
Wild Onion offers a roughly chopped exploration of grief and friendship Read more »| 07 Aug 2023 -
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Without Sin @ Summerhall
A one-of-a-kind show that brings two audience members together, Without Sin calls down a lightning strike of human connection Read more »| 07 Aug 2023 -
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Chicken @ Summerhall
Eva O'Connor's solo show Chicken is a masterful look at oppressive power structures from media hegemony to the global meat industry Read more »| 04 Aug 2023 -
Interviews
Psychic Translations: Ong Ken Sen on Trojan Women at EIF
Director Ong Ken Sen sought emotional resonances across Euripides' Trojan Women and the story of the Korean Comfort Women Read more »| 03 Aug 2023