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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FestivalsNo One is Coming to Save You @ Pleasance Courtyard
Full of both mesmerising and tedious moments, the play has many strengths, but the point being made is sometimes lost along the way Read more »| 20 Aug 2018 -
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A&E @ theSpace @ Venue45
Though not quite so undeliberate as to be deemed an accident, A&E could possibly do with an emergency rewrite Read more »| 20 Aug 2018 -
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The Merry Wives of Seoul @ C Venues
A bumbling orange-haired Falstaff eats humble pie in this colourful Korean take on the lesser-known Shakespeare play, The Merry Wives of Windsor Read more »| 17 Aug 2018 -
FestivalsSolarplexus: An Alternative Energy Play @ Zoo Charteris
Ambitious, but unclear sci-fi comedy Read more »| 17 Aug 2018 -
FestivalsThe Miss Behave Gameshow @ Gilded Balloon
The Miss Behave Gameshow has its roots in cabaret and drag, it turns the meaning of performance on its head by asking the audience to lead the way. Read more »| 17 Aug 2018 -
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Heaven Burns @ Assembly Roxy
A witch-finder goes hunting, but all is very much not as it seems in this historical three-hander Read more »| 17 Aug 2018
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Zoo @ Assembly George Square Studios
Touching two-hander about an unlikely friendship, a terrifying hurricane and amazing animal facts Read more »| 17 Aug 2018 -
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The Marilyn Conspiracy @ Assembly George Square Studios
A new play promises to re-examine the apparent suicide of Marilyn Monroe with fresh eyes Read more »| 17 Aug 2018 -
FestivalsHow to Swim in Hollywood @ Greenside, Infirmary Street
Sylvester’s performance is intimate and spell-binding and captures beautifully the struggles of a woman trying to keep her head above water in the Hollywood system Read more »| 17 Aug 2018 -
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Showmanship @ C Royale
A fortune-teller’s strange monologue makes for an uneven, but haunting hour Read more »| 17 Aug 2018 -
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La Maladie de la Mort @ The Lyceum
La Maladie de la Mmort is neither great theatre nor cinema, but the synthesis of the two proves thrilling Read more »| 17 Aug 2018 -
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You Are Frogs @ Venue 13
Highly captivating new piece of theatre Read more »| 17 Aug 2018 -
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The Dip @ theSpace, Surgeons' Hall
A hallucinatory fever dream of gay panic, featuring the Baba Ghanoush Gestapo and a very angry fish sheriff – it's wonderful chaos Read more »| 17 Aug 2018 -
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Edinburgh Fringe 2018: Masculinity in Theatre
What makes a man? What is masculine? We talk to four theatre makers about masculinity, and how their work questions what it means to be a man Read more »| 17 Aug 2018 -
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Is Theatre Accessible to Working-Class Artists?
With theatre seen as a middle-class pursuit, what about working-class artists and stories? We speak to a host of working-class artists to find out how theatre could do better Read more »| 17 Aug 2018