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FestivalsCanary Gold @ C
Since the 2008 recession there have been many dramatic narratives surrounding it, be they theatrical, comedic or other. Few however will have linked the curr... Read more »| 18 Sep 2013 -
FestivalsBeijing Cake @ TheSpace on the Mile
Edinburgh Zoo recently announced they hope to oversee the first ever panda to be born in the UK. While not involving brink-of-extinction animals, Year of the... Read more »| 18 Sep 2013 -
FestivalsSquidboy @ Assembly Roxy
The recent release of Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa tops off what has been a very successful progression for Steve Coogan’s blundering but lovea... Read more »| 18 Sep 2013 -
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Inspector Norse @ Assembly
Since Stieg Larsson’s Millenium series became an international phenomenon, Nordic Noir as a genre has exploded in the UK with shows like The ... Read more »| 18 Sep 2013 -
FestivalsBlack T-Shirt Collection @ Pleasance Courtyard
After a successful UK wide tour in 2012, playwright and performer Inua Ellams brings his Black T-shirt Collection to the Edinburgh Fringe. Foster b... Read more »| 18 Sep 2013 -
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New Voices @ Edinburgh Festival Theatre
Four short new works from four exciting choreographers are showcased in the EIF’s New Voices. Helen Pickett’s The Room is both enjoyably dra... Read more »| 18 Sep 2013
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SisGo @ Edinburgh Festival Theatre
You know it’s going to be a different night when – as an audience member – you're asked to put on socks; but then SisGo is not your ty... Read more »| 17 Sep 2013 -
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A Play, a Pie and a Pint: Trouble and Shame @ Oran Mor
It’s a menacing scene: a balaclava-clad man stands over another lying prostrate on top of a trunk. The darkness of this setup is quickly und... Read more »| 16 Sep 2013 -
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A Play, a Pie and a Pint: Divided @ Oran Mor
Ian Pattison’s taut drama Divided makes for a fascinating dissection of one period in the life of famous Glasgow psychiatrist R D Laing. ... Read more »| 16 Sep 2013 -
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Crime and Punishment @ Citizens Theatre
The act of adapting Dostoyevsky’s literary masterpiece for the stage is a bold one, but this production of Crime and Punishment while timeles... Read more »| 16 Sep 2013 -
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Play Pie and a Pint: The Great Train Race @ Oran Mor
It’s all pistons go as Robert Dawson Scott’s first play The Great Train Race takes to the track. Capturing the excitement of... Read more »| 11 Sep 2013 -
FestivalsSam Rose In The Shadows @ Bedlam Theatre
Sam Rose wanders the city clutching his ‘Sad Things’ box and desperately searching for a way to unlock it. Meanwhile his son, Ivan, is forbidden ... Read more »| 05 Sep 2013 -
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Pants on Fire's Pinocchio @ Pleasance Dome
Pants on Fire Theatre have built a reputation over the last few years at the Fringe for highly imaginative re-inventions of classic texts. This year’s ... Read more »| 05 Sep 2013 -
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Threeway @ Pleasance Courtyard
Threeway is exactly what you would imagine on first hearing the title. A young Scottish couple from the Highlands who moved to Glasgow for new experiences de... Read more »| 03 Sep 2013 -
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Conversations Not Fit For The American Dinner Table @ Bedlam Theatre
Call me a sucker for political satire (and, let's face it, satire that ties into my own views) but upon reading that playwright Sol Max of Conversations Not ... Read more »| 03 Sep 2013