Join BAFTA-winning writer Adam Kay as he launches his debut novel A Particularly Nasty Case.
Fragen Network, acclaimed for producing fun, heartfelt, uncompromising theatre, presents a bold and hilarious new adaptation of Knut Hamsun’s Hunger, reimagined as an experimenta…
War is Peace.
In an era where migration, exile, and political oppression remain urgent global issues, Büke Erkoç plays a young immigrant woman caught in the currents of history, as she grapple…
When the ghost of her father returns seeking revenge, Hamlet has to choose: play along, or break the cycle? When she makes her choice, the ghost makes his and haunts her coat.
Trace the epic journey of teenage Laurie Lee, violinist and dreamer, from his Cotswold home into the jaws of the Spanish War.
A hilarious, energetic pantomime based on Dickens’ favourite Christmas tale.
After her sister’s death, Beth is thrust into a surreal version of The Wizard of Oz, where the yellow brick road has been sold to foreign investors, the Scarecrow delights in ignor…
A feast of haunting music and spellbinding storytelling captures Laurie Lee’s rich memoir of childhood and awakening, the last witness to a lost time.
After a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2024, Mythography return with their urgent and haunting production of Jean Anouilh’s Antigone.
Juliet rewrites the ending.
Acclaimed immersive adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s classic novel, staged in a bespoke venue unique to the show.
No script, Sherlock! Stars of UK and Australian fringes take you on an award-winning improvised romp through the underworld of Victorian Britain, packed with shady villains, red he…
1916.
James Joyce’s epic story of one day in one city is brought to life in this inventive new show, bringing Ireland’s most notorious book to audiences aged 8 and upwards, and all those…
The year is 1984, perhaps.
A moving and darkly comic remix of Shakespeare’s play told from the point of view of Joy, a person with dementia who is living in an old memory of rehearsing King Lear.
New York, dancing and growing up.
The ‘poor, obscure, plain and little’ orphan, forced to find her own way in the world, surrounded by mists of secrets and unspoken truths, has enthralled generations of readers.
Escape to 1920s Jerusalem and follow the wanderlust of reporter Leopold Weiss.
Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment will be known to many, having been adapted for stage and screen countless times.
Award-winning Dyad Productions (Lady Susan, I, Elizabeth, Female Gothic, Austen’s Women) return with a 21st century take on Virginia Woolf’s blisteringly brilliant pre-TED talk.
Canadian adaption pares Marlowe’s tragedy down to a personal interplay between Doctor Faustus and Mephistopheles, the conjured demon, played by drag king Coyote Ugly.
By Kate Hamill and based on the novel by Jane Austen… a playful adaptation, with a fresh female voice.
A country house weekend takes a turn for the worse when Bertie Wooster, loveable layabout, must play matchmaker for his newt-loving friend Gussie Fink-Nottle.
They are called Edinburgh Tales but are not really about Edinburgh, in the same way the model for this show, The Canterbury Tales, is not actually about Canterbury.
Irreverent and full of rage, this rewriting of an eternal myth unfolds with haunting clarity.
In this gripping theatrical adaptation of William Golding’s classic novel, a group of children find themselves stranded on a deserted island.
An exhilarating new spin on Oscar Wilde’s Victorian classic.
Think you know your Shakespeare? Think again! This is Shakespeare as you’ve never seen him before – ‘trippingly on the tongue’… Migrant actors take on the Bard, reinterpr…
The neighbour heard the screams from next door.
Many many years ago, we had so many ways to tell stories: books, movies and something we’ve heard is called the internet.
A fusion of storytelling and a one-person show, keeping as close as possible to the original text.
Witness to a horrifying tragedy, a signalman is haunted by a mysterious figure standing by a railway tunnel.
I never met a man I so disliked and yet I can’t describe him.
Your face will hurt from smiling so much when watching the Bay Area’s most prestigious troupe of Commedia dell’arte characters perform an original version of Cinderella.
Join Rip Van Winkle and an engaging cast of performers as they retell Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, with this innovative production blending music and mayhem int…
In this Gatsby adaptation, set to a backdrop of Jazz Age melodies, Jay Gatsby’s pursuit of the American Dream unfolds.
No script, Sherlock! Stars of UK and Australian Fringes take you on an award-winning improvised romp through the underworld of Victorian Britain, packed with shady villains, red he…
Acclaimed immersive adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s classic novel, staged in a bespoke venue unique to the show.
1984 is a compelling physical theatre adaptation of George Orwell’s classic, performed by Slavic actors.
What if Mary Shelly’s gothic horror classic Frankenstein was resurrected as a campy one-man musical? An interesting premise explored by LampHouse Theatre in their new show playin…
Who is this who is coming.
As theatre adapted from classic texts goes, Gulliver’s Travels is one which has been less prominent in recent years.
Spring is in the air and Mole has found a wonderful new world; boating with Ratty, a feast with Badger and high jinx on the open road with that reckless ruffian, Mr Toad.
This show’s title summons up many associations except, perhaps, the one that forms the foundation of the play.
Based on the book by Édouard Louis, translated by Lorin Stein.
‘Oh my God.
A musical reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s beloved story, The Canterville Ghost: The Musical features an original score and soundtrack.
Thomas Hughes’ novel of 1857 is as seminal as Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby in exposing scholastic malpractice in the 19th century.
Figs in Wigs are back and this time they’ve got their period (dresses).
A chilling new retelling of George Orwell’s seminal novel.
Julius Caesar Must Die is a little misleading, as initially it appears to be an absurdist original dramatisation of the assassination of Julius Caesar.
Devised and performed by an all-female company in English and Ancient Latin, the play repurposes Ovid’s Heroides to offer a contemporary reflection on the timeless narrative of Ant…
Do Rhinos Feel Their Horns or Can They Not See Them Like How We Can't See Our Noses may be in the running for the Fringe’s wackiest title and the show itself is an equally pl…
Some say that when actor-managers were struggling for money, they used to turn in desperation to the one play that could always guarantee an audience.
Based on the short story by Charles Dickens, Unexpected Places Ensemble’s adaptation of The Signalman is a creative if confusing adaptation as the creative team tries to create a…
What if the great and tragic story of King Lear were to be told through the eyes of his closest companion? In this award-winning, one-woman tour-de-force, Susanna Hamnett plays the…
Exadus believes now is the time to pay homage to Orwell’s book, once read aloud in Ukrainian to Soviet refugees in West Germany, reminding us that ‘all animals are equal, but some …
The National Theatre’s adaptation comes to life in Dr Seuss’ classic story.
Leitheatre’s 39th year on the Fringe features a brand-new adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, set firmly in downtown Edinburgh with a cast of locals taking you through the…
Join three friends as they embark on a Victorian boating holiday filled with mayhem and mishaps.
Aristophanes’ wild fantasy, The Birds, has been reimagined as a contemporary musical comedy complete with cuckoo characters and a happy ending that soars above the footlights!
Gordonstoun Youth Theatre brings a high-energy performance in this physical theatre and rock adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
A powerful new adaptation of Bertold Brecht’s classic anti-war play, interpreted by one of China’s leading directors of physical theatre and Edinburgh Fringe veteran Zhao Miao …
The original detective story.
The original detective story.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
‘Oh my God.
A commedia twist on a Grimm’s classic, this high-energy, PG-ish show features traditional commedia characters and masks in a fractured fairy tale that’s fun for the whole family! A…
Jo March really thinks she could be the voice of her generation, or at least, a voice of a generation.
Audiovisual adaptation of the homonymous play based on the novel Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, where teenagers tell us about their passage through adolescence …
This award-winning production moves Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull to an American high school.
Wakey wakey, eggs and Shakey!Or rather, a free croissant with Shakespeare.
Die Hard has long been a pop culture and Christmas movie stalwart, garnering a large swath of fans across generations.
No script, Sherlock! Stars of UK and Australian fringes take you on an award-winning improvised romp through the underworld of Victorian Britain, packed with shady villains, red he…
Sleeping Beauty is not awakened by true love’s first kiss, as some of you may already know.
‘Who is this who is coming?’ You are invited to the edge of your seat, on a journey to the darkest corners of the night.
Think you know your Shakespeare? Think again! This is Shakespeare as you’ve never seen him before – “trippingly on the tongue”.
I advise you arrive early and treat yourself to a pre-show pint (or two) because it’s that kind of show!I mean this in the best possible way.
The last fairy lurks in a dying forest.
Woyzeck and his family are continually exploited by the institution.
The last fairy lurks in a dying forest.
A musical reimagining of one of Oscar Wilde’s most beloved stories, The Canterville Ghost: The Musical features an original score and soundtrack.
On festival nights, we present a new play, starring Paul Higgins, based on David Keenan’s novel, This Is Memorial Device.
A word-for-word theatrical adaptation (with original music) of the 1942 government handbook published to prepare families for uncertainty and violence, then and now.
Prometheus Bound (Io’s Version) finds itself in a double bind.
It’s pretty much what it sounds like! Two women using nothing but their imaginations, a skull and a couple of fancy scarves bring a fast-paced, inventive and surprisingly joyful pr…
The story of Charlie Gordon, a developmentally disabled man who has the opportunity to undergo a surgical procedure that will dramatically increase his mental capabilities.
It’s pretty much what it sounds like! Two women using nothing but their imaginations, a skull and a couple of fancy scarves bring a fast-paced, inventive and surprisingly joyful pr…
Three years have passed since Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Professor Moriarty vanished into the abyss of the Reichenbach Falls.
A Romantic Comedy.
You’re suddenly under arrest: no warning, no explanation.
‘I call myself an octogenarian, but I cannot prove it.
Did you know the Brothers Grimm collected 209 stories? From your princess favourites, like Cinderella and Snow White, to the strange ones like The Devil’s Grandmother.
A grenade hits Joe Bonham in WW1.
At the heart of Molière’s extreme, comic farce, is the story of Henriette and Clitandre, who are in love.
No script, Sherlock! Stars of UK and Australian fringes take you on an award-winning improvised romp through the underworld of Victorian Britain, packed with shady villains, red he…
Oooh, tell me stories.
Acclaimed immersive adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s classic, staged in a bespoke venue unique to the show.
Winner of Underbelly, New Diorama and Methuen Drama’s hit-making Untapped 2022.
No one would have believed in the last years of the 19th century that this world was being watched keenly by an intelligence greater than mans’ and yet as mortal as his own.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s darkly comic tale brought to the stage for children and adults to share.
Achingly funny, rhyming retelling of classic (festive?) film Die Hard from Richard Marsh: Fringe First winner, BBC Audio Drama Best Comedy winner and New York cop (one of these is …
How do you cause a shipwreck or conjure goddesses at will? Tricksy spirit Ariel has you covered.
The Bardic Breakfasters are back! C’s sensational Shakespearience returns for our 31st Fringe, with free coffee and croissants! A pleasing plethora of pentameter, puns and pastry.
Think you know your Shakespeare? Think again! This is Shakespeare as you’ve never seen him before – ‘trippingly on the tongue’… Migrant actors take on the Bard, reinterpr…
The year is 1894: three years since the world-famous Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Professor Moriarty plunged to their deaths in The Reichenbach Falls.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story The Yellow Wallpaper is an unsettling Gothic tale about a woman driven into madness by the distinguished yellow wallpaper which plasters th…
As the saying goes, "The path to hell is paved with good intentions".
The Bronte sisters’ tragically short-lived lives are reimagined for the Fringe by Eleventh Hour Theatre.
Yellow, written by Conky Campfner, is a modern adaptation of a Victorian short story The Yellow Newspaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Absurdism runs amok in Well That’s Oz, one of four plays in this year’s programme from CalArts at Venue 13.
Writer Jack Fairey has taken on a huge task in adapting the substance of Homer’s Iliad into a modern story still firmly embedded in the Trojan War with a running time just short …
A classic retelling of Shakespeare’s tragedy, this piece is brought to us by Guy Masterson, TTI in association with Maverick Theatre Co.
One man, a guitar, and the most venerated love story of all time.
If you saw a live news report of an alien invasion on a network you trusted, would you believe it? Rhum & Clay’s production of The War of the Worlds poses that exact question…
It is frightening how Orwell’s nightmarish dystopia continues to ring true, year after year.
Side by Side Theatre Company, serving learning disabled performers from the West Midlands, returns to Paradise in Augustines this year with their adaptation of As You Like It, the …
Curious Pheasant Theatre reinvents the Bard’s most famous tale of ‘star-cross’d’ lovers in a bare-bones, twisted production that will have purists running for shelter and a…
Leaving the theatre with no idea what you have just seen but having enjoyed it immensely is perhaps an appropriate response to a production of Antonin Artaud’s To Have Done With …
If you have a ticket to Pants On Fire’s Ovid’s Metamorphoses, you have in your possession a way of securing the ferryman’s passage to one of the most mischievous and charming…
The Paper Cinema’s Macbeth is a dazzling feat of storytelling.
This Victoriana adaptation of a gothic adaptation of a children’s fairy tale figure is not exactly breaking new ground.
Of all Shakespeare’s plays, Julius Caesar is perhaps the best aware of its historical place.
In the early 1980s Pinter became increasingly interested in human rights abuses and in particular the torture of political prisoners in Argentina and Turkey.
Many scholars and philistines alike think they have a good understanding of Virginia Woolf – a suicidal bisexual who used too many semicolons.
Caterham Rep’s adaptation of Ben Jonson’s classic tale The Alchemist is exactly that: don’t expect any surprises here.
Beauty and the Beast without Gaston? In Italy?! If you can get over the sacrilege of daring to be different from the Disney version of events, Beasts and Beauties, by young company…
In The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe’s macabre classic is made ironically self-aware.
It’s always difficult to tell a story that audiences are familiar with and manage to find a new way to engage them in it, but in Box Tale Soup’s new adaptation of Oscar Wilde�…
Not Cricket’s new production of Alice in Wonderland is a charming and whimsical piece that delights audiences both young and old with its blend of live music, puppetry and dance.
Incognito Theatre’s adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front is a solid, if predictable, production which ticks all of the necessary First World War boxes.
This production is based on Gail Carson Levine’s Ella Enchanted, a young adult novel that previously inspired Anne Hathaway’s second turn as a movie princess.
Powerful and demanding, Red Ladder Theatre Company’s production of The Damned United is every bit as belligerent and uncompromising as the protagonist of its story.
Taking a much loved pop culture reference point is always a sure fire way to fill seats.
Scott Roberts’ adaptation of Wedekind’s Pandora’s Box and Earth Spirit has resulted in Lulu.
I wasn’t sure what I was expecting to see when I arrived at the Rialto Theatre.
To start with the positives, this was a very enthusiastic show.
Bram Stoker’s classic Gothic tale of the infamous Count Dracula is one that has been retold countless times, but don’t be fooled - this high-octane production by Let Them Cal…
Hunchback is an English language adaptation of the French novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, with a stark contrast between strong and weak elements.
Oscar Wilde’s stunning way with words in his classic novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, makes it a challenging piece to bring to the stage.
Considering the length of most Charles Dickens novels, it’s remarkable that we’ve found ways to abridge them into three hour plays and films.
There’s something wonderfully uncluttered and unpretentious about this particular wander down literary lane from the Mercators, one of Edinburgh’s oldest amateur drama clubs.
Transforum Theatre’s adaptation of Alice in Wonderland sets the Lewis Carroll classic in a mental hospital.
Bablake Theatre’s take on the character of Sherlock delivers a few laughs, though it offers nothing new to the already long list of pastiches and homages the detective has receiv…
The Enchanted is a show all about disconnection, both in its subject matter and the way that it’s performed.
Jane Austen’s satirical novel, itself a pastiche of recognisable and well-worn tropes of the Gothic literary genre, is here given new life by company Box Tale Soup, consisting of…
The Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club’s adaptation of the restoration era comedy The Country Wife moves the action to modern American suburbia, but keeps the period’s …
An expansive stage space is dominated by assorted wooden furniture, with some pieces decked out in opulent reds and golds.
stage@leedscompany mount an original adaptation of Tang Xianzu’s A Dream Under the Southern Bough.
Through innovative movement and a thought-provoking script, Clown Funeral’s dark yet comedic The Murderer comments intelligently on society’s inability to forgive and forget, by …
Having previously seen an outstanding Georgian language version of George Orwell’s Animal Farm by the Tumanisvili Film Actors Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2014, in…
Reprint Productions present The Ruby in the Smoke, a detective story that delights in its Victorian setting, following the adventures of resourceful Sally Lockhart.
A Tale of Two Cities: Blood for Blood is neither the best of times, nor the worst of times, but over a ninety-minute running time it is a something of an odd construction.
To start with – a confession.
Something Rotten, not to be confused with the 2015 Broadway musical of the same name, is this time Hamlet’s villainous uncle, Claudius’s version of events, told as if he wer…
For those of you who have yet to encounter the fringe phenomenon that is Shit-Faced Shakespeare, this is a show that does exactly what it says on the tin.
The story of Macbeth’s tragic demise has been told many times by hundreds, if not thousands, of theatre makers.
Christopher Marlowe’s alleged blasphemy makes it necessary for him to make a hasty retreat in the form of a fake death.
Lancaster Offshoots have created an enjoyable and surprisingly funny offering with their take on Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit and Other Tales.
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men could be seen as a dark comedy or as just dark.
An entertaining pantomime-esque show that is great fun for both adults and children.
John Bunyan’s 1678 text The Pilgrim’s Progress is regarded as one of the most significant works of literature in the English Language.
With loose and dishevelled hair, streaks of cat-like make-up and bulging veins, the chorus prowls across the stage, furiously chanting lines adapted from fairy tales.
A Daily Mirror awaits us on our seats announcing the death of a ‘pair of “star-crossed” lovers … in the wake of increasingly violent clashes in the streets’.
In sixteenth-century Germany it was not regarded as irreverant to perform comic puppet shows featuring characters and scenes from the legend of Faust.
Shakespeare’s bloody and infamous tragedy is a popular choice for many companies, so that new and interesting interpretations are vital for a production to stand out.
Dante Alighieri.
I shouldn’t have liked Austensibility.
Instead of falling down a rabbit hole, Alice has been forcibly committed into a mental institution.
A solid and entertaining piece of Shakespeare that’s well handled by its young cast.
Nikolai Gogol’s short story, formed of a series of diary entries, charts the descent into madness of an ordinary civil servant, whose observations on the power-holders within his…
Part of the American High School Festival, Antigone Now is nothing if not endearing in its attempts to impress.
Even the most seasoned audience member has to concentrate to grasp every line of a Shakespeare play.
An adaptation of the classic gothic horror by Henry James, this show promises chills and thrills but didn’t send too many shivers up my spine.
Despite being one of Jack London’s more obscure works, his 1915 novel The Star Rover or The Jacket is one that feels oddly contemporary.
“Did she fall or was she pushed?” posits the Mad Hatter (Annie Neat), as Three Mugs of Tea embark on their consumerist take on Alice in Wonderland.
Sarah Moore Fitzgerald’s much-loved Young Adult novel Back to Blackbrick is adapted in a technically ambitious production from Patch of Blue.
John Steinbeck’s classic novella Of Mice and Men chronicles the unlikely and touching friendship between two ranch workers in pursuit of the American Dream during the Great Depre…
Like all good pieces of children’s theatre, The Last of the Dragons does not talk down to children.