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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FestivalsBoris and Sergey II Perilous Escapade @ Pleasance Courtyard
Appearing at this year’s Fringe with their new show Boris and Sergey II Perilous Escapade, this is a chance to revisit the production which starte... Read more »| 18 Sep 2013 -
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 -
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Beijing 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 -
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Squidboy @ 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 -
FestivalsSisGo @ 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 -
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Sam 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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First Thought, Best Thought: A Look at Write Now Festival
Combining six brand new one-act plays, workshops and script-in-hand readings, Liverpool's Write Now Festival lays bare the writing and rehearsal process, as Ian Moore explains Read more »| 05 Sep 2013