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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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FestivalsWhat 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 -
FestivalsSalome @ 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 -
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For Their Own Good @ Summerhall
As the audience take their seats in the crescent shaped spectator area of the former vet school’s dissection room at Summerhall, gazing down at the per... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Jekyll & Hyde @ Assembly Roxy
Fringe First Award-winning playwright Jonathan Holloway has not given himself an easy task. On top of adapting one of the most well-known and influential sto... Read more »| 17 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsThe Three Little Pigs @ Assembly One
The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf is a staple of many a bedtime story, but this production, brought to the festival as part of the Assembly’s ... Read more »| 17 Aug 2013
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The Secret Agent @ Traverse
"Something must be done" is the overall message The Secret Agent by theatreO urges the audience to remember. While the acting is strong, the songs in betwee... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsChalk Farm @ Underbelly Cowgate
Set to the backdrop of the 2011 London riots, Chalk Farm is a two-hander piece by Kieran Hurley and AJ Taudevin, in collaboration with Thick Skin. It focuses... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013 -
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Hamlet: The Wooster Group @ Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival
The Wooster Group's Hamlet is an experimental, challenging work with an avant garde genesis but a more general appeal through its sense of humour and use of&... Read more »| 15 Aug 2013 -
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Ulysses @ Paterson's Land
James Joyce: the master of modernist literature, the hero of Dublin, the man whose work is respected, feared and reviled in equal measure by every English li... Read more »| 15 Aug 2013 -
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Bad Boy Eddie @ C Aquilla
Bad Boy Eddie invites its audience to look in on the after affects of what happens when personal demons become too much for a family to contain. With a mode... Read more »| 15 Aug 2013 -
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The Confessions Of Gordon Brown @ Pleasance Courtyard
Every year, the theme of politics saturates the Fringe theatre scene, and by the very nature of political theatre not everything will appeal to everyone's id... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013 -
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The Bunker Trilogy: Morgana @ C Nova
It says something about the quality of Jethro Compton’s productions and the uniqueness of his trilogy of bunker-set plays that they have people scrambl... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013 -
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The Bunker Trilogy: Agamemnon @ C Nova
Jethro Compton directs three plays inspired by great dramatic and literary figures, beginning with part one of The Oresteia Read more »| 14 Aug 2013 -
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The Bunker Trilogy: Macbeth @ C Nova
The bunker of the play’s title is undoubtedly the star attraction of Jethro Compton’s immersive offering to the Fringe. The cramped performance s... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013