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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FestivalsCadre @ Traverse
Written by Omphile Molusi and performed by Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Cadre explores a young man's journey through the apartheid in South Africa &ndas... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Festivals35MM: A Musical Exhibition @ Bedlam Theatre
For a depressingly large chunk of the population, musicals are represented by BBC talent shows featuring Andrew Lloyd Webber on a throne, and the suggestion ... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
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Northanger Abbey @ Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel
The very nature of the Fringe forces companies to downsize, to get creative and to turn a little into a lot. Over at the Gryphon Venues, the Box Tale Soup du... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsSpeak No Evil @ The Merchant’s Hall
And so we must speak. Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest @ TheSpace on Niddry St
It’s never easy to perform in the shadow of an all-time classic. Certain expectations are immediately present in the minds of the audience and it can b... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
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Making News @ Pleasance Courtyard
After the Jimmy Savile, Stuart Hall and George Entwistle controversies, the BBC can rest easy that Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky’s satirical comedy is e... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013
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Say It Again, Sam @ Sweet
Say It Again, Sam is a live-action film noir that takes directly from the screen all the tropes you would associate with the genre: half-lighting, fedoras, p... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsThor of the Common Man @ TheSpace on North Bridge
Blessed by Tao, the creator of the universe, Thor is charged with the duty of being man's protector. A war rages between humans and demons, but Thor interven... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
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I'm With the Band @ Traverse
Penned by the Olivier-nominated Tim Price, I’m With the Band is an exploration of dissipation of the UK with England, Ireland, Scotland and Whales repr... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
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Who Wants to Kill Yulia Tymoshenko? @ Assembly Roxy
The imprisoned former Ukranian Prime Minister fights her case behind bars. Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
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Titus Andronicus @ theSpace, Surgeon's Hall
Sometimes a dramatic setting change of a well-known work can go disastrously wrong but when it’s pulled off, it can be difficult to imagine the piece b... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
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Collected Stories @ New Town Theatre
Collected Stories tells the story of two women, two writers, who take on a mentor/student relationship that lasts over the years. This acts as the basis that... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsSix Characters In Search Of An Author @ C
Six Characters In Search Of An Author was penned by Luigi Pirandello in 1921, and the performance starts with exactly what the title tells you: six name... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
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Humans Inc @ C
The futuristic Humans Inc clearly borrows more than just a couple of ideas from Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, although it reverses the positions a little.&nbs... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
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Titus Andronicus @ C Nova
When your company’s Fringe production has to compete with two other adaptations of the same play, there will inevitably be comparisons made between the... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013