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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 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 -
FestivalsHow 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 -
FestivalsHappy @ Pleasance Dome
When seeing Happy by No Prophet Theatre at this year's Fringe, it is difficult not to wonder which meta level the piece operates on. Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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A Male Soprano @ Paradise in the Vault
Fireden Productions bring A Male Soprano to Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The journey from bullied young boy to male soprano with an agent falls slightly ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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Antiquithon @ Institut Français d'Ecosse
Weirdly bizarre but hardly wonderful, the makeshift play, Antiquithon, will leave one more in a state of confusion than laughter as you exit, or rather run from the Institut Français d'Ecosse Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
FestivalsFactor 9 @ Summerhall
Less than 30 years ago, Britain was privy to modern man’s largest medical scandal. Thousands of haemophiliacs (a medical condition in which the ability... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014
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Conflict in Court / Silence in Court @ New Town Theatre
Liam Rudden’s plays Conflict in Court and Silence in Court are theatre-experiences unlike any other that are currently on show in the Edinburgh Fringe ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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Belfast Boy @ Spotlites (The Merchant's Hall)
The audience takes their seats. The room darkens. A chair stands out in the spotlight. Then, from the edge of the room, Martin Hall, played by Declan Perring... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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Spoiling @ Traverse Theatre
Even though Traverse Theatre Company's Spoiling looks forward to Scottish politics after September’s independence referendum, the political comedy has ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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riverrun @ Traverse Theatre
Finally nature is able to speak for itself. In riverrun at the Traverse Theatre, Olwen Fouéré takes the voice of the river Life from Finnegan's Wake, words spilling softly from her mouth as she embraces the river in all its glory. Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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Chrysalis @ Paradise in the Vault
Edinburgh Fringe Festival presents Chrysalis by Big Squirrel Productions, a sweet play that explores the lives of three people who have endured tough times ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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The Carousel @ Traverse Theatre
Carousels are defined visually by their glamorous lights, highly polished surfaces and lavishly decorated assorted animals for children (or occasional adults... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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21st Century Poe: Moyamensing @ Pleasance Dome
Marty Ross brings his retelling of an episode of Edgar Allan Poe’s life to the stage in 21st Century Poe: Moyamensing, which turns out to be a ve... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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Dalloway @ Assembly Roxy
One woman shows are de rigueur at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe, but Dyad Productions’ Dalloway is unlike any other. Rebecca Vaughan plays Clarissa Dallowa... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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The Furies @ Summerhall
Agamemnon has been at it again, pissing off his wife, and KILN’s The Furies are, well, furious. Vocally, they clearly know what they’re doing whe... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014