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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FestivalsFringe Theatre Reviews: The Northern Stage
The Paradise Project, Key Change and Ny Name Is... star on the Northern Stage at the Edinburgh Fringe. Read more »| 13 Aug 2015 -
FestivalsFringe Theatre Reviews: Female Voices
Maria Connolly, Lucy Grace, Violet Fox and Rebecca Perry turn in solo performances at the Edinburgh Fringe. Read more »| 12 Aug 2015 -
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Fringe Theatre Reviews: Circus & Physical Theatre
We review Circa's Close Up, Bromance, Traces and the Gandini Juggling School at the Edinburgh Fringe. Read more »| 12 Aug 2015 -
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The Last Hotel @ The Royal Lyceum Theatre
A stunning new opera with the taboo-breaking subject of assisted suicide, The Last Hotel will surely become a classic of our times. It has bleak vision but i... Read more »| 12 Aug 2015 -
ShowsInto That Darkness @ Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
“The truth is a terrible thing…” A raw, immersive piece of theatre, Into that Darkness is less moving than utterly groundbreaking. Robert... Read more »| 12 Aug 2015 -
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Fringe Theatre Reviews: Jethro Compton
Jethro Compton presents The Frontier Trilogy and stand-alone production Sirenia at the Edinburgh Fringe. Read more »| 11 Aug 2015
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Walking the Tightrope @ Underbelly Potterrow
It is no revelation to talk of the tension between art and politics, but it is rare and exciting to see it approached as dynamically as this. Inspired by hi... Read more »| 11 Aug 2015 -
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Sylvie Guillem: Life in Progress @ Festival Theatre
Subtle, intelligent, playful and moving, Life in Progress exemplifies Sylvie Guillem’s attitude through the 39 years of her dance career: balancin... Read more »| 11 Aug 2015 -
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Fringe Theatre Reviews: The Best of Trav One
Fringe theatre report, with The Christians, An Oak Tree, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing and Swallow. Read more »| 11 Aug 2015 -
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Fringe Theatre Reviews: The Best of Dance Base
We review Tamsyn Russell, E Motion, Tjimur Dance Theatre, Al Seed and Fishamble at the Edinburgh Fringe. Read more »| 10 Aug 2015 -
FestivalsFringe Theatre Reviews: The Best of Trav Two
Edinburgh's Traverse hosts Bryony Kimmings, Rough Magic, Gary McNair, Pardon / In Cuffs and Crash at the Fringe. Read more »| 10 Aug 2015 -
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Matthew Lillard: Filthy Talk and Fault Lines
Prologue: On Fringe Eve, two men, alike only in uniqueness, gather at their laptop screens ready to commence the Skype of their lives. We hear knuckles crack before the curtain rises… Read more »| 06 Aug 2015 -
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Bryony Kimmings: Fake It 'til You Make It
Bryony Kimmings talks about her Fringe show Fake It 'til You Make It, mental health stigmatisation and making theatre about real people's real stories Read more »| 03 Aug 2015 -
FestivalsElspeth Turner's SpectreTown
Elspeth Turner talks identity, Scottish ancestry and homespun Scottish theatre. Read more »| 03 Aug 2015 -
Shows
A Midsummer Night's Dream @ Bard in the Botanics
It's the most commonly performed script to feature in Bard in the Botanics' 2015 season, but Emily Reutlinger's 20th century take on A Midsummer Night's... Read more »| 02 Aug 2015