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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FestivalsPickled Republic @ Summerhall
Ruxandra Cantir's solo show is a charming, weird, and timely reflection on society, via some truly unique characters Read more »| 27 Aug 2025 -
FestivalsEIF: Figures in Extinction @ Festival Theatre
Nederlands Dans Theater's EIF co-production with Complicité examines how artists, and by extension people, can meaningfully exist in the face of extinction and mortality. Read more »| 25 Aug 2025 -
FestivalsClub NVRLND @ Assembly Checkpoint
In its perhaps overly successful attempt to replicate a club environment, elements of the immersive Club NVRLND get lost in the fray Read more »| 25 Aug 2025 -
FestivalsBalfour Reparations @ Summerhall
Farah Saleh's genre-bending piece is timely, memorable and innovative Read more »| 25 Aug 2025 -
FestivalsVENUS 2.0 @ ZOO Southside
An ever-changing cabaret of dance, theatre and puppetry retells the life of suffragette-turned-fascist Mary Richardson Read more »| 25 Aug 2025 -
FestivalsLost Lear @ Traverse Theatre
Venetia Bowe shines in this intensely moving and astonishingly clever production about an actress lost in her memories Read more »| 25 Aug 2025
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FestivalsConsumed @ Traverse Theatre
Karis Kelly's Consumed is a fantastically paced and multi-layered tale of intergenerational trauma in one Northern Irish family Read more »| 25 Aug 2025 -
FestivalsThis Sh*t Happens All The Time @ Assembly George Square
Amanda Verlaque's true story about queer love calls up powerful queer narratives that remain pressing today Read more »| 21 Aug 2025 -
FestivalsDeliverance @ Traverse Theatre
Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir's innovative at-home experience is an innovative exercise in reflection Read more »| 21 Aug 2025 -
FestivalsEIF: Cutting the Tightrope @ Church Hill Theatre
Cutting the Tightrope confronts political censorship in art through a range of new short plays Read more »| 19 Aug 2025 -
FestivalsTriptych Redux @ ZOO Southside
Triptych Redux is a visceral dance performance characterised by a hypnotic blend of light, sound, and precision Read more »| 18 Aug 2025 -
FestivalsCecilia Gentili's Red Ink @ Underbelly Bristo Square
A theatrical tribute to the late Argentinian trans activist based on her autobiography, Cecilia Gentili's Red Ink is a loud and proud celebration Read more »| 18 Aug 2025 -
FestivalsIs This Normal? @ theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall
Ansa Edim's solo show Is This Normal? ranges between moments of comedy and self-reflection Read more »| 18 Aug 2025 -
FestivalsNowhere @ Traverse Theatre
Khalid Abdalla brings a production brimming with bite, sensitivity, and radical optimism to the Traverse Read more »| 18 Aug 2025 -
FestivalsThe Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave @ Summerhall
The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave is an artful rejection of the stylised image of the underground party scene Read more »| 18 Aug 2025