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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FestivalsThe Road to Qatar @ C too
The Road to Qatar, a musical about a couple of New York Jews who write musical comedy being whisked away to the Middle East to write a show for some overbear... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
ShowsDunsinane on Tour
The National Theatre of Scotland and the Royal Shakespeare Company are bringing back David Greig’s incredibly compelling, thought provoking, Scottish p... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
FestivalsDance Derby @ Paterson's Land
This dance/jazz/theatre show is both an enjoyable and uncomfortable experience, as it explores how far we are willing to go. Based on the American dance ma... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
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Cape 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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Festivals
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 -
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Dido 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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Missing @ 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 -
Festivals
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 -
Interviews
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 -
FestivalsSolstice @ 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 -
Festivals
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 -
Shows
Dostoyevsky @ 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