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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FestivalsThe Three Lions @ Pleasance Courtyard
David Cameron, Prince William and David Beckham walk into a hotel room in Zurich… And that high-concept synopsis is as funny as William Gaminara&rsquo... Read more »| 09 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsThe Pearl @ Pleasance Courtyard
Dumbshow bring their adaptation of a John Steinbeck novella to the Fringe with their usual creative flair and imagination Read more »| 09 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsS/He is Nancy Joe @ Zoo Southside
S/He is Nancy Joe is a Czech physical theatre piece that follows a transgender person's experience from childhood into adulthood. While there are certain iss... Read more »| 08 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsHow to Occupy An Oil Rig @ Northern Stage at St Stephens
When six Greenpeace members recently scaled The Shard, it wasn’t because of a lack of climbing centres in London; their aim was to bring the subject of... Read more »| 08 Aug 2013 -
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On the One Hand @ Northern Stage at St Stephen's
The Leeds-based Paper Birds company is well known for its devised shows and celebrates its 10th anniversary with this charming, inventive and touching show a... Read more »| 08 Aug 2013 -
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Hirsch @ Pleasance Courtyard
Biographical narratives are usually centred on icons of modern culture, with recipients of movie biopics – Thatcher, Jobs, Cash – tending to be g... Read more »| 08 Aug 2013
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The Bread and the Beer @ Underbelly Cowgate
Written and performed by Tristan Bernays, The Bread and the Beer tells the story of John Barleycorn, a decadent figure of myth and legend akin to Dionys... Read more »| 08 Aug 2013 -
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The Babysitter @ Pleasance Courtyard
If any of my interviews, trials or first nights as a babysitter had gone anything like it does for the unsuspecting Aaron in InDepth's The Babysitter then fr... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
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Breaking The Silence @ C Nova
Should we dwell on our past, let it take over our lives in an attempt to commemorate and understand our history, or should we ignore it completely and live o... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
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Rites: A Children's Tragedy @ Pleasance Courtyard
The Pleasance’s own young ensemble return to the Courtyard with an adaptation of Wedekind’s Spring Awakening. Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
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The Boy Who Kicked Pigs @ Pleasance Courtyard
One nasty little boy gets what’s coming to him in an adaptation of Tom Baker’s twisted morality tale. Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
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Slapdash Galaxy @ Underbelly (Bristo Square)
Children’s entertainment typically consists of garish colours and raucous noises. While Scamp Theatre’s Slapdash Galaxy is indeed fille... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
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Titus Andronicus @ Bedlam Theatre
Typical. You wait years for someone to bring Titus Andronicus to the Fringe then all of a sudden there are three of them, each offering a different spin on S... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
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The Cherry Orchard @ C aquila
Kronos Productions' new adaptation of Chekhov's classic The Cherry Orchard re-imagines the play and places it in 1980s Britain, a time when social mobility w... Read more »| 06 Aug 2013 -
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I Want To Tell You Something @ Sweet
I Want To Tell You Something. I need to talk to you. Those kinds of phrases usually instil us with a sense of fear, implying something is wrong, that we've b... Read more »| 06 Aug 2013