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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FestivalsRed, Like Our Room Used To Feel @ Summerhall
Red, Like Our Room Used To Feel is an intimate performance by poet Ryan Van Winkle. Part installation, part one to one poetry reading, the audience is t... Read more »| 07 Aug 2012 -
FestivalsTam O'Shanter @ Assembly Hall
The acclaimed company Communicado is back at full throttle: reminiscent of the legendary 7:84 company, many of the cast can sing, dance and play a tune on tr... Read more »| 07 Aug 2012 -
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Camille Claudel @ The Pleasance Courtyard
This is a play about love, genius, abandonment and madness, the bittersweet but ultimately tragic story of Rodin's model and mistress, a sculptor in her own ... Read more »| 07 Aug 2012 -
FestivalsThe Prize @ Underbelly
I can't lie, I did expect The Prize to be full of the now perfectly over familiar London 2012 babble in the newspapers and across the TV. Fortunately The Pri... Read more »| 07 Aug 2012 -
FestivalsMichael Neto - UPCLOSE @ The Vault
Beginning his show as a bumbling and unhinged scientist, Michael Neto wanders on stage and with the help of two audience members and a vial of ominous fluid,... Read more »| 07 Aug 2012 -
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Matthew J Dowden - Magic of the Movies @ The Scottish Storytelling Centre
Chronicling the magic of the movies, Matthew guides us through his favourite moments from Charlie Chaplin, ET and the Rat Pack to the Godfather and James Bon... Read more »| 07 Aug 2012
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FestivalsAn Hour Long Sinister Wink @ The Voodoo Rooms
Terror and Titters Read more »| 05 Aug 2012 -
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Unhappy Birthday @ Assembly 3
Last time Amy Lamé came to Scotand, she handed out ham sandwiches and pretended to be Mama Cass's adopted daughter. For the Fringe, her celebrity ambi... Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
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Fringe 2012: Dance
This year's Festivals offer a plethora of innovative and challenging new takes on the artform of dance – we take a look at some of the most exciting shows on offer Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
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The Colour Ham @ Just the Tonic
The Colour Ham does something new with the sketch show and an unpredictable mixture of illusion, mind-reading and comedy is fun, fresh and very, very silly.... Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
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Scotland vs Poland on the Edinburgh Fringe
Poland versus Scotland: it might lack the clarity of a sporting contest, but theatre does bring out the national identity Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
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Tatyana @ Edinburgh Playhouse
In Tatyana, Deborah Colker's reimagination of Puskin's Eugene Onegin – famously made into a classical romantic ballet – the opposing stereotypes ... Read more »| 31 Jul 2012 -
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Timeless & Uncharted Seas @ Royal Lyceum Theatre
Although Aditi Mangalas' choreography and company are based on the ancient Indian form of Kathak, her double bill at the EIF is determinedly a contemporary w... Read more »| 31 Jul 2012 -
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Ménage a Trois and The Olympics of the Everyday
Glasgow speaks to the world, too Read more »| 30 Jul 2012 -
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Miriam Margoyles: A National Treasure
More than two decades after its Edinburgh Festival debut, Miriam Margolyes returns to Scotland with one-woman show Dickens' Women Read more »| 30 Jul 2012