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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FestivalsNirbhaya @ Assembly Hall
'Nirbhaya' means 'Fearless,' the name the girl gang-raped on a Delhi bus in December 2012 was given by the press since her horrific ordeal and subsequent dea... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsThe Worst of Scottee @ Assembly Box
Narrated through a camera placed in a photo booth, The Worst of Scottee is oddly reminiscent of a confessional Skype conversation with a very good friend. Th... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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No Place Like @ Zoo (Monkey House)
No Place Like is an intelligent piece exploring memory and the sense of alienation from the self and home. After all, what is home but an expression of our e... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsOne Step Before the Fall @ Zoo (Aviary)
One Step Before the Fall is a powerful piece exploring Muhammad Ali’s rise and fall – or something along those lines. Personally, the only link t... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsOut of His Skin @ Zoo Southside
Out of His Skin is best described as the dance version of Fight Club. It is adrenaline-full yet ridiculously in control – to the point that the high-en... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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Gabe Day @ theSpace, Surgeon's Hall
A demented American televangelist minister has declared to his many followers that the world is about to end, so club owners Charlie and Kate do the sensible... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013
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Sock Puppet @ Pleasance Courtyard
Haunted sock meets desperate man. Murders ensue. With a hilarious B-movie style, Sock Puppet consists of two ghost stories that eventually fuse into one, and... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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An Actor's Lament @ Assembly
As a critic, one suspects it would be very easy to be offended by Berkoff’s latest comedy, seeing as he drops in many scathing and vitriolic remarks ab... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience @ B'est Restaurant
Hilarious, delicious, Faulty Towers: the Dining Experience is a Fringe Legend. Now in its sixth consecutive year at Edinburgh, the show plus ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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Dark Matter @ Summerhall
If you were strolling through Leith later in the evening, winding down from a hectic day of Fringe activities in the city centre, you may have spotted an exc... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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The Fanny Hill Project @ Zoo
The Fanny Hill Project is a powerful discussion of society's perception of sex workers. Kyra is invited on stage to tell the story of how and why she came to... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Don Quijote @ Summerhall
Don Quijote is a brave and funny performance that recontextualises and reclaims the importance of Cervantes' book. Although there is obviously a great deal o... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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What is the weight of your desire @ Zoo
“A woman is an object. A woman is a sexual object.” There are many pieces of performance trying to create a discourse around objectification of w... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Punchline @ TheSpace at Surgeons' Hall
There are many kinds of comedy. Black comedy, shadenfreude (laughter at the expense of others), fish comedy – or should I say surrealism, and more to b... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Salome @ TheSpace at Surgeons Hall
Making Oscar Wilde's controversial tragedy, banned in France where he lived when he wrote it, into a contemporary Rock Opera is certainly a novel idea. This ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013