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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Festivals#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 -
FestivalsThe 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 -
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Perfection @ C Nova
Hungry People Theatre bring a powerful one man show to Edinburgh Fringe with Perfection, a raw performance that questions everything. Writer and director Jun... Read more »| 27 Aug 2014 -
FestivalsRed Tap/Blue Tiger @ Assembly Roxy
Albion Company’s Red Tap/Blue Tiger begins baldly, with main character Norton just having beaten his mother into a coma and seething over the news that... Read more »| 23 Aug 2014 -
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Divallusion with Christina Bianco and Velma Celli @ Assembly Checkpoint
Christina Bianco and Velma Celli star in an hour-long thrilling tribute to the grandes dames of pop, jazz and soul. In Divallusion, you can expect countless ... Read more »| 23 Aug 2014
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FestivalsSymphony @ Assembly George Square Gardens
Soho Theatre and nabokov’s musical piece Symphony has a lot going on. It features guitars, a juvenile story about a boy with asthma trying to pass his ... Read more »| 23 Aug 2014 -
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Working Title: The Orpheus Project @ C Too
NoMansTime Automatics brings a stylish performance to Edinburgh Fringe with Working Title: The Orpheus Project, which is set in a dystopian world where... Read more »| 22 Aug 2014 -
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Signal Failure @ Underbelly, Cowgate
Sasha Ellen’s Signal Failure is a boy meets girl tale that finds beauty in the lonely lives of London’s commuters. The fact that the lion’s... Read more »| 22 Aug 2014 -
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Crazy Glue @ Assembly Roxy
Crazy Glue is a rather noisy silent film in which Single Shoe Productions portray 1920s domesticity in clever and at times hilarious mime, as they produce de... Read more »| 20 Aug 2014 -
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Low Tide in Glass Bay @ Underbelly
Deadpan Theatre’s 2014 Fringe production Low Tide in Glass Bay is like three people you love very much. She’s your sweary aunt who gets slighty t... Read more »| 19 Aug 2014 -
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Maria 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 -
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HUFF @ 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