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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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FestivalsThe Hemline Index @ Pleasance Courtyard
Fringe virgins Portmanteau present a neat little comedy about being 24 years old, female, and doing a bit of shopping on your lunch break. Set in two dressin... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
FestivalsCivil Rogues @ Pleasance Courtyard
The Pleasance’s Civil Rogues is an old-fashioned comedy with old-fashioned jokes and old-fashioned characters, set at the time of Cromwell’s old-... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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Green Snake @ C Venues
Watching two exquisitely dressed women perform a dialogue in a language one cannot begin to imagine to dream to understand two words of, is an interesting ex... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
FestivalsThe 56 @ Underbelly, Bristo Square
FYSA Theatre provide an untold look into the Bradford City Fire in The 56 through a verbatim performance using interviews from three survivors. The title si... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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Frank Sent Me @ Underbelly Bristo Square
Em-Lou Productions brings Edinburgh Fringe dark comedy in the form of Frank Sent Me, unravelling the tale of Howe, a mafia enforcer who knows his boss Frank... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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I’m not Pale, I’m Dead @ Assembly Hall
One-woman show I’m not Pale, I’m Dead is a simple piece that unfolds from a single premise: what would you tell an Edinburgh Fringe audience if, ... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014
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FestivalsWingman @ Pleasance Dome
Seeing Wingman is like witnessing a hilarious adult rendition of Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine, and Richard Marsh adds to that the ch... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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The Zulu @ Assembly Hall
Mbongeni Ngema challenges his audience’s ears in The Zulu: an oral history of the Zulu kingdom and its political turmoils, culminating in the battle of... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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Keeping Abreast @ Assembly George Square Studios
City Theatre Dublin would like you to fondle your breasts. Go on, put your hands on them. Not having breasts is no excuse. Now have a squeeze. Found somethin... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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This Is Ceilidh @ Assembly George Square Gardens
This Is Ceilidh is an enthusiastically tarted up ceilidh, that uses a bagpipe battle, well-deployed tartan leggings and a mild inter-clan feud to get you on ... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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A Split Decision @ The Assembly Rooms
Keir McAllister beautifully imagines the debate of Scottish Independence between Scotland and England as a husband and wife on the brink of divorce Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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Simon Callow in Juvenalia @ Assembly Hall
In his latest Fringe production, Simon Callow introduces his audience to classical truths such as ‘women like big cocks’ and ‘old age turns... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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#MyWay @ Pleasance Dome
Youth theatre group Young Pleasance drag the Edinburgh Fringe forcefully into 2014 with #MyWay, their play on heartbreak and social media. Because of it... Read more »| 29 Aug 2014 -
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1984 @ Citizens Theatre
The Citizens Theatre presents 1984, as adapted and directed by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan from the 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty Four by George... Read more »| 28 Aug 2014 -
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The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha @ Zoo
Little Soldiers educate the general public not so much about the historic context or cultural relevance of Don Quixote of La Mancha but all the more about it... Read more »| 28 Aug 2014