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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FestivalsCape Wrath @ Northern Stage at St Stephen's
This charming, totally involving show, performed to an audience of sixteen, in a cosy mini-bus, takes you on an imaginary journey to Cape Wrath, the top lef... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
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The Garden @ Paterson's Land
The intimate space of Paterson's Land is perfect for this exquisite mini-opera, first performed at Aberdeen's Sound Festival, by the husband and wife team, ... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
FestivalsMetamorphosis @ The Merchant’s Hall
Gregor is a lithium addict. Her life is a little routine to her, to put it mildly, in fact is seems unbearably so as she moves increasingly mechanically, lik... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
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The Phantom of the Fringe @ The Merchants' Hall
"You are blind" the Phantom booms. And I am a little, after having a torchlight shone into my eyes during a little-too-drawn-out introduction. As slow begin... Read more »| 01 Sep 2013 -
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Ciara @ Traverse
In Ciara, his love song to Glasgow, playwright David Harrower has created a complex character worthy of the city and a play whose ending packs a punch. ... Read more »| 01 Sep 2013 -
FestivalsDido and Aeneas/Bluebeard's Castle: Oper Frankfurt @ Edinburgh Festival Theatre
This is a daring, hugely inventive and emotionally affecting double-bill, conducted by Constantinos Carydis and directed by Barrie Kosky: two short operas 2... Read more »| 01 Sep 2013
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FestivalsMissing @ Underbelly Cowgate
Engineer's Missing is an incredibly important piece of theatre at this year's Fringe. It takes verbatim interviews with families and officers alike to look i... Read more »| 01 Sep 2013 -
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Hag @ Underbelly, Cowgate
The Hag is Baba Yaga, the witch from Eastern European folk-tales who eats children. This production, involving actors and some puppetry, will appeal to blood... Read more »| 01 Sep 2013 -
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Autumn Theatre: The Quiet After the Storm
With critics passed out in the hallways and tourist levels plummeting from the surge the Fringe causes, it’s very easy to assume theatre and other performance arts suddenly come to a complete standstill come September Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
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Solstice @ Assembly Roxy
Solstice is an interesting play that unnerves you from the very beginning – or at least makes clear the direction it is going in with its staging, visi... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
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The List @ Summerhall
Stellar Quines theatre company presents The List, a piece about a woman who makes, of course, lists of tasks to avoid feeling out of control of her new life ... Read more »| 27 Aug 2013 -
ShowsDostoyevsky @ Citizens
This September sees Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment explode into the Citizens Theatre. Written for the stage by Chris Hannan, and directed by Domin... Read more »| 27 Aug 2013 -
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Red Bastard @ Assembly (Bosco Theatre)
Putting this review in print seems to contravene the very spirit of Red Bastard's performance, since it became obvious very quickly it was going to be a once... Read more »| 27 Aug 2013 -
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Track 3 @ Bedlam Theatre
Theatre Movement Bazaar, who brought the sell-out hit Anton’s Uncles to the Fringe in 2011, return to the world of Chekov with this dramatic and exhila... Read more »| 23 Aug 2013 -
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The Rain That Washes @ Pleasance Dome
As Zimbabwe’s political opposition challenges Robert Mugabe’s recent victory in the presidential elections, it feels timely and necessary to take... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013