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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FestivalsLe Flop @ Underbelly Cowgate
The Edinburgh Fringe wouldn’t be the Edinburgh Fringe without productions like Le Flop: an eponymous feat containing intense flatulence, a dance s... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
FestivalsThe Pure, the Dead and the Brilliant @ The Assembly Rooms
Ancient creatures of Scottish folklore discuss the future of an Independent Scotland. What will the outcome be? You decide. Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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Frozen @ theSpace on North Bridge
Out Of Town Productions bring to Edinburgh Fringe a moving portrayal of three lives interlinked by the abduction and murder of ten-year-old Rhona ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
Festivalswhat do you mean @ Spotlites (The Merchant's Hall)
The title of the play is appropriately put as a question – what do you mean. The show will have the audience continually questioning the title as ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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The Fair Intellectual Club @ The Assembly Rooms
Scotland is most notably known intellectually for its scientific and educational advances that occurred in the early 1§8th century: the Scottish Enlight... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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Sleeping Beauty @ Institut Français d'Ecosse
This is not the typical fairly-tale of the Princess Aurora that slumbers in the tallest room of the tallest tower, waiting to be awakened by true love’... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014
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The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show @ Pleasance Dome
With a coffee in one hand and a paper plate of strawberries and croissants in the other the audience are prepared for The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show to br... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
FestivalsHow to Achieve Redemption as a Scot through the Medium of Braveheart @ Underbelly
Rachael Clerke recounts the history of her Scottishness in How to Achieve Redemption as a Scot through the Medium of Braveheart, while assiduously avoiding t... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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Happy @ Pleasance Dome
When seeing Happy by No Prophet Theatre at this year's Fringe, it is difficult not to wonder which meta level the piece operates on. Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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A Male Soprano @ Paradise in the Vault
Fireden Productions bring A Male Soprano to Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The journey from bullied young boy to male soprano with an agent falls slightly ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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Antiquithon @ Institut Français d'Ecosse
Weirdly bizarre but hardly wonderful, the makeshift play, Antiquithon, will leave one more in a state of confusion than laughter as you exit, or rather run from the Institut Français d'Ecosse Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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Factor 9 @ Summerhall
Less than 30 years ago, Britain was privy to modern man’s largest medical scandal. Thousands of haemophiliacs (a medical condition in which the ability... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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Conflict in Court / Silence in Court @ New Town Theatre
Liam Rudden’s plays Conflict in Court and Silence in Court are theatre-experiences unlike any other that are currently on show in the Edinburgh Fringe ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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Belfast Boy @ Spotlites (The Merchant's Hall)
The audience takes their seats. The room darkens. A chair stands out in the spotlight. Then, from the edge of the room, Martin Hall, played by Declan Perring... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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Spoiling @ Traverse Theatre
Even though Traverse Theatre Company's Spoiling looks forward to Scottish politics after September’s independence referendum, the political comedy has ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014