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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FestivalsMaria Addolorata @ Summerhall
As the first chapter of the Trilogy of Pain, Maria Addolorata (Our Lady of Sorrows) sets up the idea of nonsensical suffering. Suffering and pain don’t... Read more »| 19 Aug 2014 -
FestivalsHUFF @ Traverse
As part of the Made in Scotland 2014 showcase, the Traverse theatre hosts HUFF in its atrium, an immersive experience created by Shona Reppe and Andy Manley.... Read more »| 19 Aug 2014 -
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Cuckooed @ Traverse Theatre
The best recipe for revenge? Follow Mark Thomas to the Edinburgh Fringe 2014 as he creates a comedic cuckoo about his best friend's betrayal of seven years at the Traverse Theatre Read more »| 19 Aug 2014 -
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The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland @ Summerhall
Confusing, mind-boggling, yet amazingly simple in its construction, The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland is one of Ridiculusmus’s Fringe... Read more »| 19 Aug 2014 -
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The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven @ artSpace (St Mark’s)
Your parents may have conceived you doggy style, is one message to take away from Jo Clifford’s Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven. It is only ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2014 -
FestivalsFrankenstein: Unbolted @ Just the Tonic at the Caves
Last Chance Saloon bring fun to the Fringe with their wacky tale of Frankenstein: Unbolted. While of course loosely based on Mary Shelley’s novel Fran... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014
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Ablutions @ Assembly Roxy
“You’re an experienced silent vomiter,” FellSwoop Theatre’s lead tells us in Ablutions, a beautifully sleazy tale of personal decay a... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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Le Flop @ Underbelly Cowgate
The Edinburgh Fringe wouldn’t be the Edinburgh Fringe without productions like Le Flop: an eponymous feat containing intense flatulence, a dance s... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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The Pure, the Dead and the Brilliant @ The Assembly Rooms
Ancient creatures of Scottish folklore discuss the future of an Independent Scotland. What will the outcome be? You decide. Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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Frozen @ theSpace on North Bridge
Out Of Town Productions bring to Edinburgh Fringe a moving portrayal of three lives interlinked by the abduction and murder of ten-year-old Rhona ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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what do you mean @ Spotlites (The Merchant's Hall)
The title of the play is appropriately put as a question – what do you mean. The show will have the audience continually questioning the title as ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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The Fair Intellectual Club @ The Assembly Rooms
Scotland is most notably known intellectually for its scientific and educational advances that occurred in the early 1§8th century: the Scottish Enlight... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
FestivalsSleeping Beauty @ Institut Français d'Ecosse
This is not the typical fairly-tale of the Princess Aurora that slumbers in the tallest room of the tallest tower, waiting to be awakened by true love’... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show @ Pleasance Dome
With a coffee in one hand and a paper plate of strawberries and croissants in the other the audience are prepared for The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show to br... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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How to Achieve Redemption as a Scot through the Medium of Braveheart @ Underbelly
Rachael Clerke recounts the history of her Scottishness in How to Achieve Redemption as a Scot through the Medium of Braveheart, while assiduously avoiding t... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014