16 year-old Sean Parker has never known his Dad and wants to change that.
Edward (never Ted) has delivered his talk on speed awareness 2,191 times over the last 10 years.
AJ doesn’t like karaoke, but she does like the girl who asked her to go.
A drama group are performing their new murder-mystery play, but despite their best efforts, everything goes wrong! Their play, a thrilling murder mystery set on a small ship carryi…
In the summer of 1973, Slade drummer Don Powell was involved in a devastating car accident which instantly killed his girlfriend and left him with a brain injury that resulted in s…
Malvern Theatres Young Company is remembered for its powerful staging of Sophocles’ Antigone in 2018 and its five-star (EdinburghGuide.
Set over an unforgettable summer and encompassing all of space and time, Run explores what it means to love, to lose and grow from a boy into a man.
John Wayne Gacy was one of the worst serial killers in US history: responsible for the rape, torture and murder of at least 33 teenage boys and young men in the 1970s.
Using The Trojan Women by Euripides as a starting point, After Troy interweaves the stories of those women left behind, awaiting their fate with the stories of the women who have s…
There are things you shouldn’t move.
‘Who is this who is coming?’ When the rational and skeptical scholar Professor Parkins takes a trip from home, he stumbles upon a mysterious whistle.
‘All hail Macbeth that shalt be King hereafter…’ With these portentous words, the three witches seal the fate of the Thane of Glamis – and also that of all the others whom Macb…
Firefighter Micky and investment banker Andrew are choked by their respective blue and white collars.
Booger Red survives a rough childhood, becoming a renowned hellfire and brimstone Southern Baptist preacher.
A life lived in the shadows of her father, of her lover and of her own sadness, Eleanor Marx’s light shone fiercely upon fin-de-siècle England, until its untimely extinction.
For anyone who has ever had to hold it in to protect their reputation – take a quick break and relieve yourselves.
The incredible story of middle-aged homeless alcoholic, Myra, living rough on the streets of Dublin.
The original detective story.
‘Mr.
Based on true events.
‘She comes towards me on the floor; always approaching; never coming nearer; always visible as if by moonlight whether the moon shines or not.
To hell with anger management! Malvolio was done notorious wrong.
‘My mother always said she wouldn’t make the same mistakes her mum did.
Shotgunned is Kangaroo Court’s debut theatrical production.
Treasure, treachery, mutiny and mayhem all await young Jim Hawkins as he leaves the Admiral Benbow inn behind and embarks on a thrilling and dangerous voyage to recover Captain Fli…
Revealing the man behind the myth.
Returning after a total sell-out run in 2019, Fragility of Man follows one man’s epic, lifelong battle with the justice system.
Star Power Performing Arts presents The Wizard of Oz! Expect an unforgettable trip along the infamous Yellow Brick Road with all of your favourite characters in a play version of t…
Blanket of the Dark performed by Applause Theatre Group.
On the eve of the funeral of her last remaining friend, 95-year-old Helen enters the mid-century world of Daphne DuMaurier’s, Rebecca.
“Tomorrow is a big day.
Fresh off her 1961 Academy Awards triumph and a recent brush with death, Elizabeth Taylor is struggling with her hardest role yet: herself.
This double bill of new plays by young writers gives two fresh twists on tragedy.
Shipwrecked on a life raft with no water, sharks circle and madness beckons.
‘Oh my God.
In 1971, Juliane Koepcke, 17 years of age, was the sole survivor of the LANSA Flight 508 plane crash.
This group of friends wanted a normal night out, but life is never straightforward.
Chance by Yolan Noszkay follows Aaron, who’s just been excluded from mainstream school and is being sent back to Sunnyside Pupil Referral Unit, a school for kids who’ve been exclud…
William Wallace is in a London dungeon awaiting his fate, he knows what’s in store for him yet he faces up to his demise with bravery and determination, this is a stirring tale as …
In the absence of his father, Angus Ketch, a 14-year-old boy struggling with his identity, is met with The Knot, a creature that manifests itself from Angus’ insecurities.
In the early hours of July 17th 1918, four young women were executed by shotgun and bayonet in a grubby basement in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Sophie and Calliope have never been to school.
After learning that his brother has suffered a severe downward spiral, Gerry attempts to rehabilitate him one last time – uncovering a dark truth in the process.
It isn’t easy representing old age on stage.
Have you ever wondered what your life would look like without the memory of the person who changed the way you see the world? In the depths of heartbreak, Gina takes a pill that sh…
A true story.
Using music, dance and drama, SLP have created an original love story that celebrates self-discovery and diversity as lovers choose to cross the societal boundaries of different wo…
Chloe is writing a paper on women’s sexuality for her Masters.
Making it in the business world is tough – even more so when you’re a woman.
Heart-rending tale of the bond between two brothers overcoming mental health struggles and addiction.
Billy is an ex-drag queen trying to reclaim past glory.
Under the Mirrie Dancers is an exploration of grief and the complex nature of growing up in a rural setting.
Every show starts by asking the audience: Why can’t we have nice things? What are the little everyday niggles that irritate you? Does your flatmate squeeze the toothpaste from th…
Ageing violinist Alan Gottlieb has long been content to sit at the back desk of the seconds, coasting his way to retirement.
An ageing film producer plans to resurrect his past cinematic successes by revitalising the Carry On franchise with a brand-new film.
The cosy, safe world of three flatmates is rocked by a woman’s murder.
The Diary of Anne Frank: Her Journey in Music by British Composer Girish Paul is a dramatic concert by the multi-instrumentalist and his virtual orchestra.
Julius Caesar Must Die is a little misleading, as initially it appears to be an absurdist original dramatisation of the assassination of Julius Caesar.
In the dramatic musical A Mirrored Monet, it’s 1916 and the painter Claude Monet struggles to complete his government commission for the Water Lilies.
This play depicts the trials and tribulations of accessing justice from the perspective of an idealist.
A violent relationship can happen to anyone.
It Won’t Be Long Now is drawn from first-hand accounts of Hong Kong under Japanese occupation.
Edinburgh University’s Shakespeare Company present the chilling tale of Hekabe, a reimagined translation of Euripides’ original Greek tragedy.
Osgood is known for Inverewe Gardens in Wester Ross.
After the sudden death of her grandfather, Lisa Blanche is left with the task of carrying out one of the wishes on her grandfather’s will: to find out what happened to his brother …
The thought of invisibility, and the advantages it could bring to someone, has captured the imagination of millions since HG Wells’ classic story was first published.
Three Sisters and Them takes Chekhov’s play into the fractured world of today.
97+ is based on the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster where severe injuries led to 97 lives lost.
Alan Bennett reminisces about his life.
Hollywood, 1950.
In the Old West, three men converge in a saloon to drink and share violent tales.
Set in the city slums of 1920s Australia and based on true events, Shadows of Angels sees four women recollect the part each played in a crime on one hot, volatile day.
Bare Productions return following a string of five-star, sell-out Fringe runs with the rousing and heartfelt musical, Little Women.
Audrey and Jack are poles apart in age and background, but, as a wheelchair user and rough sleeper, they are both literally and metaphorically overlooked by society.
BBC Studios, November 1991.
A woman is tied to a bed – a sex game or something more sinister? Is he still angry about the mushy peas? It’s about family, betrayal, god, sex and a girl who just wants to be lo…
Mirandolina, the captivating landlady of an inn, is wooed by a penniless marquess, a wealthy count and her besotted servant.
What a wonderful play is DNA.
Have you ever wondered what the people on the other side of your wall are talking about? Two couples separated by a paper-thin wall, Max and Billie have been friends forever but is…
‘To be, or not to be? That is the question.
The classic musical The Legends of Mountains and Seas is a representative work of the Graduate Institute of Performing Arts of National Taiwan Normal University.
Happiness awaits Martha and her Mother.
A young couple meet by chance by Stari Most, the bridge which unifies the multicultural city of Mostar.
A heart-wrenching collision between illusion and reality, a touching story of a young couple in love as they embark on a turbulent journey of loss, immigration, frailty, and hope.
A Chorus Line - and what a chorus line! I was wowed by this performance of A Chorus Line presented by the Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group.
Creating an effective vehicle for performers, be it musical, play, comedy set or improv format, is arguably the most challenging task a creative artist can undertake.
Puppets is a new and exciting play, fresh from its debut at the Durham Drama Festival.
Teenage chaos, comedy, and (mis)communication – wrapped neatly into five episodes spotlighting the intimate conversations that take place in the corners of a house party.
A thought-provoking exploration into the nature of communication and consent.
The Mysteries – Reimagined.
Small town Scotland, September 2014.
This is a little treasure, the sort of performance that is easy to overlook but which enriches those who root it out.
If you knew my story, your heart would break too.
I thought I knew what to expect from The Devil’s Passion.
Frankenstein: a timeless classic that explores the troubling themes of creation, responsibility, and morality.
An exploration of Dorothy Parker’s life through her writing, including poems and monologues set to music with Joanne Grant, Alison Bishop and Stuart Hope.
A real-life heroine of the 1745 Jacobite Rising, Colonel Anne defied her husband the Laird of Mackintosh and raised troops for Bonnie Prince Charlie.
World’s Best Fringe Theatre Winner 2022/3 (International Fringe Encore Series, New York) returns for eight performances only.
When Cynthia’s husband dies during her pregnancy, she’s expected to mourn.
This critically acclaimed, award-winning comedy is back! Nigel Forde’s ‘sparkling script’ and David Robinson’s ‘impressive Screwtape’ (Stage) bring to life Lewis’ classic book, whi…
In the dangerous and magical land of Sunderbans, living is about a fragile balance: between land and water, domestic and wild, human and human, calm and storm.
When a group of teenagers get plane-wrecked on an uninhabited island what could possibly go wrong? Watch as they descend into chaos and anarchy in this drama loosely based on the L…
It’s 1940.
Max Campbell (The Crown, The Chelsea Cowboy, Blurred) stars in this award-winning, one-man play by John O’Keefe, wherein the actor tells the story by becoming each of the story’s c…
From the pen of one of Britain’s leading playwrights, Dreams of Anne Frank by Bernard Kops is a poignant and highly charged drama that retells the story of Anne Frank.
The first-ever stage adaptation of the 1996 novel by Stephen Fry.
The Steamie is a comedy-drama stage play, written by Tony Roper.
It’s Edinburgh in the 1980s.
A boy seeks solace in the woods after the loss of his brother.
Presenting your favourite fairy tales – the obnoxious bullying of Ashputtel (the first Cinderella) by her stepsisters, the vanity of a fashion-conscious (and strangely familiar!)…
Hurly Burly’s Death by Shakespeare is a stylised ode to Shakespeare, that lifts and showcases his best-known characters in a tumultuous yet entrancing way.
When a group of teenagers’ bullying of another student goes too far, they are left with an unplanned death on their conscience.
‘Absolutely stunning, stylish, eccentric, confident and honest’ (NODA.
A new dramatic musical with music by Tim Nelson and lyrics by Vincent Aniceto tells the story of a group of everyday people working on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center on …
More written about than performed, this is a rare chance to see a version of Caryl Churchill’s 1997 play, This is a Chair.
En garde! Can fierce competitors also be friends? Featuring on-stage fencing and verbal repartee, this funny, fast-paced, touching play explores the lives of two teenage girls, as …
I Am Mark: A Daring New Staging of Mark’s Gospel.
Dead of Night by Hurly Burly is a traipse through gothic romantic literature in an exploration of the nature of humanity and monsters.
John Harper and Joseph Ismay.
‘All hail Macbeth that shalt be King hereafter…’ With these portentous words, the three witches seal the fate of the Thane of Glamis – and also that of all the others whom Macb…
When Victor drives into Vi’s life in his dodgy Volvo, things change forever.
“One drink.
The play follows the arrest and trial of Hans and Sophie Scholl – two founders of the White Rose Group.
Seven days.
A bloody war is brewing.
From the Producers of I, Sniper (2018) and Chaika (2010) – After her brother is unjustly arrested by the Nazis, a young German student begins a deadly game of cat and mouse with …
From the Producers of I, Sniper (2018) and Chaika (2010).
A year into the zombie apocalypse and Logan and his fellow survivors are doing just fine.
The original detective story.
The original detective story.
Or: How not to pull off a jewel heist! A charming yet slightly overconfident cat-burglar plans to pull off his final job – stealing a cursed ruby on the night before his wedding!…
‘Oh my God.
What happens to Shakespeare’s best-loved heroes and most reviled villains after the curtain falls? Come and join a host of familiar Shakespearean characters as they reflect back on…
Narcissism, noun – a condition in which somebody is only interested in themselves and what they want, and has a strong need to be admired.
Ripper is an unfortunate example of a show that may have promise, but not quite the ability to realise it.
There’s been a mix-up in the weekly appointment with her Sanatorium psychiatrist.
Award-winning author Oliver Mol’s debut is a true, funny and heartbreaking tale about his 10-month migraine, recovery in Australia and job on the railway when there were no other o…
Describing itself as “a retelling of Rapunzel” for the climate age, Debating Extinction, the first of a double bill entitled Climate Fables, by Padraig Bond, contains several i…
What would it be like for young people if national conscription were still part of growing up; to receive the letter giving you time and place to report for 547 days of duty and ha…
Can’t Wait To Leave is a deeply heartfelt and surprisingly humorous story by Stephen Leach and is performed exceptionally well by Zach Hawkins.
God Done Opened the Sky is Jersten Ray Seraile’s tale of young boy realising that his inner world and outer world are painfully conflicted – the way he sees himself is not the wa…
This courtroom drama centres around the question of euthanasia.
Alfie and George are two well-loved but aging panto stars, but will this duo last as we reveal the tension between the pair – what will become of them? And will their friendship …
From three-time Booker-nominated author Andrew O’Hagan (Mayflies), a cautionary tale of literary life, a hilarious a brilliant new play.
In their final year, a group of friends at a boarding school in the Scottish Highlands are all waiting to be told off for their various antics.
In Declan Croghan’s tense and hilarious black comedy, Anto and Kevin find their Irish past crashing in on their new and quiet London lives.
Puppetry arguably reached a new level of realism and sophistication with War Horse.
Dickie Must Die is a dark comedy with heart, set on Halloween night.
‘This miserable country is one of the wettest places in Europe.
Society has collapsed and the Ravens rule.
From the writer of 2019’s acclaimed Butterflies (‘playwright to watch’ (FringeReview.
By Stephen Karam.
Phoebe is a young college student navigating her life as different obstacles arise.
The Stranger is a statue in a small Yorkshire town, her exact story unknown.
By the time the lipstick went on, I was hooked.
The face of warfare has changed again.
Another chance to see the Broadway Baby Bobby Award Winner Best Theatre Show at the Fringe 2019.
Donut Dollies is a story about the women who volunteered with the Red Cross in WWII.
‘What’s the worst hangover you ever had? The one that made you say ‘I’m never, ever, drinking again’.
Do you believe in our survival? Alone is a multi award-winning New Zealand sci-fi drama about feminism, climate change and David Bowie.
This is the classic tale about a group of English boys who were being evacuated to a safe country in the pacific to escape worldwide war fallout.
A chance meeting in an art gallery and a new flatmate moving in provide the simple framework for Be Home Soon, a beautifully crafted and sensitively performed debut play from By Th…
In 1634, Galileo is ordered to stand trial for heresy.
What a remarkable and fluid performance full of depth and charisma!Mister Shakespeare is a detailed tale penned by Michael Barry, that shows Shakespeare at work in his lodgings.
Single mother, community activist and advocate, Lucha, and her teenage son Freddie are evicted from their apartment in East Los Angeles to make room for a Doggie Day Care.
David Hume and Adam Smith, based in Edinburgh, were giants of The Enlightenment of the 18th century.
Family Matters: Presents the “full catastrophe” of family life, embracing its comic, dramatic, farcical and tragic realities.
World premiere from award-winning Korean/Irish playwright Rena Brannan.
Report To An Academy is not Franz Kafka’s best work, but Robert McNamara brings the elusive central character with precision and animal rage that is very watchable.
The Cube.
Join the adventure as we bring to life the classic, Journey to the West, in an interactive children’s show which is a part of Chinese Culture and Art Festival! With amazing visual …
A woman’s journey as she navigates life through adversity and challenges such as homelessness, addiction, domestic abuse and racism.
That moment when your life flashes before your eyes.
Bang is a monologue delivered by the apparition of Joan Vollmer, immediately after she was shot by William Burroughs, her common-law husband, in Mexico City in 1951.
Ticking Clock Theatre brings to life the grim days of the Victorian hangman at the Space Triplex Studio in The Standard Short Long Drop, a fascinating play set in the cell of two p…
A buddy comedy for an existential generation.
Roleplay, costume and fanfiction form an intimate and fundamental spark within a new queer relationship.
In a century littered with dynastic families and the parts they played in history, few names are as fascinating as those of the Mitford Sisters with their controversial beliefs, ma…
Somewhere far inland, lakes that once stretched across the desert are now shallow pools of dust.
Breaking up with a beloved one is always heartbreaking.
This incendiary play is described as Kafkaesque.
Die Hard has long been a pop culture and Christmas movie stalwart, garnering a large swath of fans across generations.
How do you top Trainspotting, the defining film of the ‘90s? You top it by making it live.
Layers is an innovative one-man play depicting 10 minutes of a day in the life of the performer, Yuuya, and his family.
At at a time when the world has never more needed to heed the whispers of history, when client journalism seeks to sanitise hate speech as a ‘balanced’ opinion, and social medi…
Transfixing, she’s staring at us through a doorframe – or is it a painting? We’re invited to draw, then bid…Created by Diana Feng, Tegan Verheul and Clarisse Zamba of the W…
We all know Tennessee Williams the playwright, but the man behind the plays has faded somewhat into the background.
It was the first truly beautiful summer’s day of the Edinburgh Fringe.
The Birth of Frankenstein tells us the story of Mary Shelley, the mother of science fiction, on her fateful trip to Geneva with Percy Bysshe Shelley.
An uncompromising portrait of Pablo Picasso by Terry D’Alfonso.
Jeffrey Holland (Hi-de-Hi, You Rang M’Lord) returns in this sell-out one-man show about friendship, memories and a couple of remarkable lives.
Rita Lynn is a one-woman show from the creative brain of Louise Marwood, a hilariously dark comedy and cautionary tale following Imogen, a spiralling addict, who is teetering over …
What connects two seemingly unrelated killings, 27 years apart? In 1993, Steve’s mother dies suddenly; can he trust GP Harold Shipman’s ‘Natural Causes’ diagnosis? And in 2020, whe…
Newly promoted FID detective LaRhonda Parker is assigned to investigate the death of a Black motorist during a traffic stop involving her husband’s ex-partner, Boyd Sully, a 29-yea…
Life is swell, until Corey finds himself by his son’s hospital bed, the victim of a brutal attack.
This returning musical is an exceptionally joyful and tremendously funny look into the lives of food delivery drivers.
What makes a footballer a hero? What makes a hero a legend? Locality? Loyalty? Skill? Players like Bobby Walker appear once in a generation.
***** (Stage; Three Weeks; Theatre Weekly; Advertiser, Adelaide).
Get on the Lash! Just in time for last orders.
A haunting celeste chime creates a sombre mood that permeates John Ransom Phillips’s Mrs President at C Aquila as Mary Lincoln (LeeAnne Hutchison) poses for photographer Mathew B…
Best friends Santi and Naz live in pre-partition India.
How can a truth be told? How can a secret be spoken? Three true stories of survival.
Guffy is a guttural, allegorical tale of the state of our nation.
He’s dead, and it’s her job to prepare and present his body for his family’s final goodbye.
Based in a Men’s Shed in East Lothian, The Collie’s Shed follows four retired miners as they discover how a review into the policing of the ’80s mining strikes and a potential Mine…
Daniel Newton stars in Shadow Boxing, directed by Mdu Kweyama and written by James Gaddas, a heavy-hitting one-man show coming to the Fringe this year.
Poppies should be growing wild, not in a house.
The play 17 Minutes explores the communal and residual effects of a shooting through Andy, a man who struggles with his own complicity in the tragedy, and who seeks meaning in the …
A brutally honest, hilarious and heartbreaking one-woman show navigating the impossibly confusing gender dynamics of modern love.
The story of an American teenager grappling with her dad’s heroin overdose.
Attachment styles, Yiddish drag, Bergson’s theory of time.
A young man, Adam, wakes up one day no longer sure if he’s what he says he is.
When those in power make decisions, it is those without power who pay the bloody price.
How many voices must be taken before we are heard? Join the studio audience of this comedic and dystopian gameshow and follow the friendship of two young women and their experience…
The adventures and misadventures of a group of graduates working in a North London call centre: Alice wants to be a singer, Liam wants to travel, Rob wants to make a killing and Sa…
A lawyer sits in a strong room.
This is a one-man play about the infamous life of the actor, criminal, alleged lover of Princess Margaret and possessor of a 12-inch appendage, John Bindon.
It’s 1947 and Catherine has just shot dead her husband, Philip, in their Regent’s Park flat.
It’s 1664 and the world is on the cusp of a sweeping pandemic which will devastate the population and change lives for everyone.
Off the coast of Angus in the North Sea, is Caillte Lighthouse.
They say a bull sees red when it loses the plot.
This new theatre piece looks at the four heroines from the classical theatrical canon: Nora from Ibsen’s Doll’s House, Julie from Strindberg’s Miss Julie, Hedda from Ibsen’…
Based, like Hitchcock’s film, on the Daphne du Maurier short story, The Birds is a thrilling psychodrama about what happens when nature turns against humanity.
‘It’s like childhood bite marks and scratches from your pets and the stitches from when your mum dropped you – it’s the scars that keep us together.
A girl is locked in a room.
This show presents a collective of exciting musical theatre numbers relating to the theme of being unapologetically you and making a lasting impact on the world around you.
A gritty meditation on family, destruction and the paranormal.
One of Neil Simon’s best-loved comedies.
A washed-up television personality lives out a Dickensian nightmare when they are visited by the ghost of their past.
Jimmy is 34 and has never felt like he belonged.
What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br…
Rebecca has been labelled the miracle girl after waking from her own murder.
A chance meeting changes Annika’s life forever.
Baby Calvin can remember his previous life when he was happily married to Laura.
The riveting play I Shall Not Be Moved is by emerging young playwright Isaiah Reaves.
What happens to characters when the curtain comes down? How do we know if they ever learn from their mistakes and move beyond the confines of their story, or whether they remain tr…
Influencers, social pressures, selfies and shame.
There’s a lot packed in to Long Nights in Paradise, probably too much, but it still makes for an interesting story that explores the ups and downs of life, the building and disin…
David Hayman returns as everyman Bob Cunninghame.
Jesus tells his disciples: ‘the Messiah will never come, so we have to create one’.
A heated argument and an all-night conversation leaves childhood friends Max and Kieran shaken, with suppressed emotions exploding to the surface.
That’s what a trigger pull is worth.
An experimental nosedive into Jamie’s fractured past.
On a normal bed, in a normal bedroom, two normal university students try to figure out their place in the world – and their place in each other’s lives.
‘It’s a bit weird to be sitting at the Arctic Circle chatting to a fit boy with your dad’s ashes in your backpack.
We’ve all been there! That sense of recognition permeates the room during Tim Marriott’s latest play Appraisal.
On a distant island, Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, plots revenge on those who overthrew her.
Cutting Edge Theatre: Hope Rises.
A Polish migrant, David Tasma, is dying from cancer in post-war London.
Is your family dysfunctional? Well, you haven’t met these fine folk.
Theatre Paradok presents a fresh, LGBTQIA+ take on Constellations by Nick Payne.
The Greeks knew a lot about war and told great tales of heroism, victory and defeat.
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, 1977.
The cult of Cicada’s Children has just been discovered.
A gritty piece of drama, this powerful, 60-minute theatre production is not for the faint-hearted.
Following their five-star production of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood in 2019 and powerful staging of Sophocles’ Antigone in 2018, this ‘strong and capable ensemble’ (Edin…
An American divorcee, a besotted Prince and a constitutional crisis – sound familiar? But this was 1936.
Inside every adolescent brain, 86 billion neurons connect and collide to produce the most frustrating, chaotic and exhilarating changes that will ever happen to us.
In Declan Croghan’s tense and hilarious black comedy, Anto and Kevin find their Irish past crashing in on their new and quiet London lives.
In 2017, I was raped.
Woyzeck and his family are continually exploited by the institution.
‘Perspectives.
Dr Glas, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the notorious 1905 Swedish novella by Hjalmar Soderberg, translated by David Barret.
A modern-day twist on Ibsen.
Join us for a mom-entous playdate.
The Conversation explores the disparities that non-European international students have when moving to the United Kingdom for university.
The highly acclaimed Tay Bridge was commissioned by Peter Arnott for the 80th Anniversary of the Dundee Rep in 2019.
There is nothing like a timely reminder from the past.
Cannibalism, werewolf trials, deceit and murder.
A brilliant piece of new writing that follows 17-year-old Max’s awakening to her own voice and sexuality.
Based on a true story, Silent Night is set in an Anderson shelter on Christmas Eve in 1940.
Football, fathers, friendship.
A striking and ferocious new play which dares to explore the pressures and societal demands that one couple confronts in their desire to procreate.
All that glitters is not gold, a message that is incredibly clear in Em Oliver’s Beautiful Nothing.
The Riverside Theatre Company returns to Edinburgh to take on this Euripides classic.
Do you ever feel like pulling over? Or feel turned on by the sea? I think I do.
Everyone needs a little bit of luck in their lives.
Influencers, social pressures, selfies and shame.
‘Charlie, why is every light in the fucking house on??’ What happens when you have a son? How does manhood move through generations? Who decides what a “good dad” really means? Chi…
Works by Anton Chekhov, translated and adapted by Michael Frayn.
Welcome to Scarbados! Written and directed by Sam Milnes, brand-new comedy-drama Scarbados is a play about love, life, grief, hope, relationships, and fish and chips! On Shazza and…
‘Stop the press!’ said Mr Thomas, his hand clenching yesterday’s issue.
Wing It Musical Theatre, by arrangement with Nick Hern Books, presents the following amateur performances: Georgia Christou’s Bright.
25 years since the fateful crash that killed Diana, this compelling docuplay was first seen off-Broadway and West End in 2015.
The children of Cargilfield School present an abridged version of Shakespeare’s classic love story, performed in the round in Shakespeare’s original language.
Charles Dickens’ classic ghost story.
Suddenly kettled at a climate change protest on the hottest day of the year, Kelly finds herself trapped with a volatile and unlikely mix of people.
A new solo performer show by acclaimed playwright Rosemary Jenkinson, about young bonfire builders in East Belfast.
A young scientist by the name of Frankenstein breathes life into a gruesome body.
A woman grieving for the loss of her daughter is drawn to the mystery of the Wishing Well.
1915, Ypres, Belgium.
A tale of unrealised dreams.
Sondheim’s classic satire of a culture of violence and political turmoil.
This prelude to Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy imagines Hamlet as a restless teenager frustrated by the limits of his role and furious at his father’s warmongering ways.
Almost 13 is a highly thoughtful and at times disturbing portrayal of the childhood experiences of a young girl growing up in Brooklyn, New York.
‘It is terribly easy to laugh at passion’.
Jessica Swale’s Nell Gwynn charts the rise of an unlikely heroine from her roots in Coal Yard Alley to her success as Britain’s most celebrated actress and her hard-won place in th…
You’re born a girl.
I never felt unwelcome at the Fringe until this performance.
What would you trade to preserve a special relationship? Bassanio has squandered his wealth but plans to regain it by wooing wealthy Portia of Belmont, whose late father has impose…
Recent studies in education suggest that the two best ways for students to boost their educational development (by eight months in each case) are immediate feedback from a teacher …
Judy Seall’s Splinters is a strangely warm gothic Victorian tale, a warmth that emanates from the bonds between the members of the cast.
A sausage-maker and an apprentice walk into a kitchen, but this is no joke.
Mean Girls meets Lord of the Flies.
Beneath is dark and absurd commentary on the effects of climate change.
Saber Came to Tea is an entertaining short play with original music and magic that tells the story of one young woman’s defiant stand against the constraining social norms of her f…
Watch 13-year-old Ahan Dasgupta make his debut with Feynman on Why Do Magnets Attract? Immerse yourself in an afternoon of monologue and drums, as we try to answer this probing que…
Based on true stories, Steve Hennessy’s play follows two inmates at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Richard Prince and Ronald True.
A new play based on the true story of Wales’ first working-class martyr, Dic Penderyn and the Merthyr Rising of 1831.
Think you’re the only one who’s making it up as you go along? You’re not.
Violet’s scared walking home.
This marvelously theatrical play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s.
Jane Waters, mother of three, was murdered in her home on Easter Sunday, 2001.
Business partners Ross and Wilson use their vacation time to collect coins from Magic Fingers machines in American motels.
A beautiful, moving one-act play based on poetry created in a concentration camp by the Jewish children of Prague.
The Saga of the Norse Gods.
Work, love and life are just one long, hard slog for the fish-filleting foursome Pearl, Jan, Shelley and Linda.
Set in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, The Wait revolves around Maura Devlin’s process of grief.
A man wakes up drunk, scared and alone, with no idea where he is or how he got there.
A one-man revenger’s comedy chronicling a forgotten history and a dying art.
Medea in space.
Loveless is a show concerning the pornographic industry.
Art, the multi award-winning play, comes to Edinburgh in an entirely fresh production.
Gosh this is good.
In the three years since David and Evie accidentally got pregnant after a night out, they and their group of uni friends have all graduated, gone out into the world, and tried – …
Originally written for online festivals in 2021 and now recreated by an all-Scottish cast and crew for live performance, American writer/producer Deena MP Ronayne’s award-winning…
BCP return to the Fringe with Mike Leigh’s classic after two sell-out years with Alan Bennett and Alan Ayckbourn.
The Anorak is a harrowing story of one man’s isolation, based on a true event.
In this powerful one-hour theater piece, Kimleigh Smith takes the audience through a journey that is totally uplifting, totally heartbreaking and totally powerful! Totally! is the …
A hillbilly gothic tale of an Appalachian tobacco farmer’s love for his family and the extremes he will go to protect them.
What happens when your world falls apart? Who do you become? When a cult sweeps a nation, a group of young friends find themselves caught in the middle of a revolution.
Let Them Eat Cake! Through the lens of one of history’s most eminent, enigmatic females, Let Them Eat Cake explores Marie Antoinette’s relationship with the public, with the pr…
Charles Dickens’ classic ghost story.
‘Five stars are not enough to do it justice!’ ***** (Daily Mail).
Absolutely Probably Unless focuses on two people at the end of a relationship, or maybe at the beginning of one.
Blink and You’ll Miss It is the incredible, one-man show from Terry Geo, writer and director of Blink of an Eye.
How does an artist keep going when all seems hopeless? Seeking an answer, a failed artist in New York visits the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2016.
‘The past isn’t dead, it’s not even past’ (William Faulkner).
What if the characters you created in your plays were to come to life and challenge the lives and circumstances you created for them?Unseen Shepard finds Pulitzer Prize-winning pla…
Join us for Tim Whitnall’s monologue masterpiece, telling the story of Eric Morecambe, a national treasure that touched so many of our lives.
Miep Gies was a 32-year-old secretary in Otto Frank’s office when he asked her to help him and his family hide from the Nazis.
You’d be forgiven for raising an eyebrow at the provocative title Olives and Blowjobs at Space Triplex.
When Will seeks out Alina’s insight for his paper on Iran, he has no idea that he will meet the love of his life.
Greg is Duck in Arms Theatre’s first production.
A simple concept: Peter reading on his usual park bench is approached by Jerry, a bizarre young man full of questions and stories.
Sammy, an artist with a love of music, has a dark secret.
A shiny new flat.
After a girls night out, three friends wind down in the local chippy.
Creme Egg included with ticket.
Warhol: Bullet Karma is a solo show stuffed full of characterisations from Warhol’s artistic heyday; Roost’s performance really brings these characters to life.
Brothers tells the story of two estranged brothers Matt and Jay, in their early 30s, who re-unite as one fights testicular cancer and the other battles addiction.
The story of William Wallace as seen through his eyes.
A unique opportunity to return to the experimental roots of the Fringe joining emerging actors from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in a real time, live rehearsal of plays and …
The Deil’s Awa, a roistering tale of smugglers in the East Neuk of Fife, written by Alan Cochrane, award-winning playwright, and dedicated to Edinburgh People’s Theatre.
Starring CJ de Mooi (Eggheads), Banana Crabtree Simon is an intimate and emotionally honest journey of one man’s struggle with early onset dementia.
The end is nigh.
Edinburgh Youth Theatre presents Into The Woods Jr.
‘Hilarious’, ‘mesmerising’ and ‘outstanding’ **** (LondonPubTheatres.
A grenade hits Joe Bonham in WW1.
When four terrible directors start casting and their ego is way greater than their talent, what chance do the auditionees have? This funny and light-hearted show with a very talent…
Are you Yes or No or Maybe Aye or Maybe No? This play takes us from 2014 up to the present day and looks at the independence debate with wit and humour as two families decide how t…
Picture this: a musical based on the women of the Manson Family set to the music of Fleetwood Mac.
The One Between, formed from the leaders of both sides of the struggle, is the last hope of restoring balance to the world through a show of strength, spirit, essence and loyalty.
Hell hath no fury like a woman’s scorn.
Two pantomime stars keep complaining about people walking through their dressing room as they prepare for their performance, but not everything is good between them.
A plane crash leaves only teenagers alive on an uninhabited Indonesian island.
Come and take part in an immersive courtroom experience where you decide the cases outcome.
Like all women, Jo has been called her fair share of things, many not so flattering.
Jimmy has a debt to his dying mother he’ll do anything to pay off, a paranoid mystery caller setting his life on fire and a walking, smooth-talking gambling addiction that genuin…
All families have secrets.
There are many rags-to-riches stories around but probably not another that follows a young heroin addict’s journey from death’s door to the gates of Buckingham Palace.
Returning to Edinburgh following a near sell-out 2016 Assembly season, Alison Skilbeck’s critically acclaimed one-woman show reveals the public and private life of one of the most …
Sandcastles by Steve McMahon moves back and forth in time and memory to depict the tumultuous lifelong friendship of millennials Hannah and Beth.
A mother keeps pulling her ill son out of school.
A family saga about men, women and whisk(e)y! Laced with dry humour and casked in raw emotion, embrace Tam Tully as she fights to save her Ulster family distillery from takeovers, …
Leicester Square’s Not So New Comedian of the year 2019 finalist Sean will talk about life experiences.
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.
With not a zombie in sight, we are taken into a sanctuary of “normality” while the outside world rots.
10 April 1998, Belfast.
Psycho Productions and Cusack Projects Ltd.
Today I Killed My Very First Bird, a piece of new writing by poet, playwright and performer Jason Brownlee and directed by Lee Hart, is a strange beast.
A young couple are separated by an outbreak they cannot speak of.
Two’s Company is Gillian Duffy’s take on rekindled romance and finding new direction in later life, following 55-year-old Maureen as she navigates life after her second divorce…
With a forensic talent for pinpointing the precise foibles, flaws and faults of a character and an uncanny capacity for evoking their vocal DNA, Jon Culshaw gives new life to one o…
Tatum, a university student, becomes the virgin bride of her sweetheart, entering an eternal marriage in the the Mormon church.
Cyclist Vee has no idea why she’s woken up in hospital.
Success demands sacrifice.
‘There’s no access guide to sex; how to consensually sh*g your blind girlfriend.
**** (LondonPubTheatres.
In this one-woman thriller, we see how a loving relationship can sometimes be anything but.
Why be the bigger person when you can be the last one standing? Ink and Curtains make their Edinburgh debut hot on the heels of their first national tour with this tale of a dinner…
When 30 years of family silence is broken, Helen begins a quest to discover the hidden story behind her brother’s suicide.
In an inner-city hostel, Jams is trying to record a rap video.
In a Sheffield basement, two men try to bury the bodies of their past to find a hopeful future.
The Paines Plough Roundabout has become a symbol of the Fringe, developing its own signature style in the process.
This is an engaging exploration of the friendship of two of the most iconic British Prime Ministers of all time.
The award-winning production Grav returns for 2022.
We all live under the same sky.
If the title sounds familiar you’re probably thinking of the film, In the Name of the Father, but you’d be on the right track because In the Name of the Son deals with the same…
Intelligence transports us into the basement of the US State Department, where two young Foreign Officers are forced to rethink their secret views on American diplomacy, working on…
Woman, warrior, legend.
Written by Vlad Butucea, directed by Mojisola Elufowoju.
It’s been two years since Finn quit his job, came off social media and disappeared.
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 …
The multi award-winning story of Rehana, Angel of Kobane, returns to Edinburgh in a new production from Torch Theatre.
In 2002, whilst researching a comedy, triple-Fringe First winner Henry Naylor and two-time Scottish Press Photographer of the Year Sam Maynard, went to the Afghan war zone.
Nightlands is a play about how authoritarianism weaponises nostalgia, about Russia today.
There’s significant anger in One of Two; a sense of injustice felt by a young man whose experience of the not-so-subtle cruelties and discrimination endured by disabled people is…
When 30 years of family silence is broken, Helen begins a quest to discover the hidden story behind her brother’s suicide.
Most often seen at sea, in that area that rests just above the horizon, a Fata Morgana is a type of complex mirage superstitiously named after the Arthurian sorceress Morgan le Fay…
Actor and writer Kristin Mcilquham can’t seem to finish a list.
1967, Susan, a runaway from a troubled home, escapes her past by hitchhiking to LA.
From House of Cards writer Bill Cain and The Shark is Broken director Guy Masterson, 9 Circles is a brilliantly performed, harrowing psychological thriller that would be shocking a…
A Dark Place by Boreas Productions at Pleasance Courtyard is an insight into the relationship between friends, Ash and Sam, and how Sam’s mental health struggles have twisted the…
Denied ownership of her land through endless bureaucratic delays.
A contemporary drama created by Histeria Teatro that pays homage to those rock stars who died young, and in circumstances of suicide or overdose.
Thirty years after A Scandal in Bohemia, Sherlock Holmes must once again confront The Woman.
The year is 1914.
The story of the theatrical Dame has had many incarnations and they all revolve around a fairly standard trope.
These neat little monologues are a sort of fan fiction inspired by various works of Shakespeare (The Tempest, Romeo & Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Twelf…
Tick Tick could give The Wolf of Wall Street a run for its money when it comes to the frequency of “Fuck”.
That’s what a trigger pull is worth.
Performed by the members of Raised Voices – a charity that works creatively with people who have experienced homelessness, mental health issues or addiction.
Allison Miller is on trial pleading not guilty to all charges held against her.
The Stone Host is the high-quality video version of the play of the same name, that was made with the integration of 3D copies of actors and scenery by project Theatre 360 Degrees.
Paul Black's Fringe debut had a lot to live up to.
One actor performs for audiences of one.
Welcome to undertaker Anna Morgan-Jones’ live Zoom webinar.
The Dust Behind the Door: A midsummer’s dream for Hermia? More like a mid-life crisis.
Patricia has been concocting the perfect speech in her head over the last year, of what she would say if she were ever to face her ex-abusive boyfriend again.
Why would a man disappear inside his own home for seven and a half years, just when he has the most to share? This isn’t a story about being sick, it’s a story about healing yourse…
Fringe roulette is part of what keeps us coming back year after year.
Madhouse by Nottingham New Theatre at theSpace@Surgeon’s Hall does what it says on the tin.
The grannies in the show will tell you their life stories through singing and playing the moon guitar.
Jonathan Smeed is making his Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut in Run by Stephen Laughton at Lauriston Halls, courtesy of No Frills Theatre Company.
It’s all in that title, really.
The Queen’s Speech: Miranda’s revels now are ending, but island life looks such fun! 35 years after Miranda and her father Prospero left their island at the end of The Tempest, the…
It’s all in that title, really.
Three lads have certain things in common.
New Celts Productions and Bone struck Theatre present Wish List by Katherine Soper, winner of the Burntwood Prize for Playwrights in 2015.
Oddly Ordinary Theatre Company has made a highly successful adaptation of Mark Ravenhill’s Pool (No Water) at theSpace Triplex as part of the contribution by the graduates of Que…
Saving Mr Ultimate by John McEwan-Whyte at theSpace Triplex is the debut show of Extra Arca, a young theatre group within New Celts Productions, a consortium of young theatre compa…
Smile.
Award-winning solo returns for four shows only.
ChasingRainbows presents Looks Like We Made It.
La Nela De Socartes is an uplifting musical tragedy on love, opportunity and change.
Deena MP Ronayne’s award-winning debut as a writer takes audiences on an emotional journey ranging from fear and hate to delight and joy.
A dark comedy about the young women who have the “honor” of being Adolf Hitler’s food tasters.
Winner of Best Ensemble at a Tucson Fringe Festival 2021.
Ember is a window into the mind of a young woman who, waking up one day, realises she doesn’t know who she is.
It’s May of 2020 and feisty Nana is going crazy because her adult daughter, Melissa, won’t allow her to leave the house.
Meet Davy.
Fow Lissa is defensive, deaf and failing university – the last thing she needs right now is to fall in love.
Francis Bacon could spend his mornings painting, his afternoons and evenings drinking champagne, and his nights roaming Soho in fishnet stockings and a leather coat looking for “ro…
Testament invites you to bear witness to the dark underbelly of the Good Book.
There are a handful of stories which truly stand the test of time.
In 1902 Hibs won the Scottish Cup.
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes.
A unique two-woman retelling of F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece.
Dishonour is a powerful drama that explores the terrifying practice of female genital mutilation (FGM).
In this new one-man show, with a full cast via video, playwright and performer John Feffer portrays the fall and unlikely rise of a straight man in a comic world.
Why! Why did she do it? Amy Williams thought taking a class in making online videos would be fun.
A ninety-minute monologue about a homeless person? Embrace it.
400 milliliters.
Agave is under siege.
The residents of Heather Avenue are in lockdown, forced to rely on the phone and Zoom to communicate.
Captivate Theatre returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with their production of Sunshine on Leith, at Multistory, first performed in 2014 and twice thereafter.
La Nela De Socartes is an uplifting musical tragedy on love, opportunity and change.
Dinner with strangers is always awkward, especially when you’re the guest of honour.
‘Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain’.
This evocative play by Australian playwright Melissa-Kelly Franklin tells the story of a young couple living in a world ravaged by climate change.
Emma and Sinéad know all that glitters isn’t gold, but when given the opportunity to go from €3.
When Vee embarks on her cycling commute, she has no idea that she’ll never make it home.
I, Anatolia is an adaptation of the Turkish play Ben Anadolu by Güngör Dilmen, translated by Talat S Halman.
The story of Emily: brassy, funny and forthright.
On February 7th 1991, James Casey was found guilty of murder.
A darkly witty take on the American pop art icon Andy Warhol and the woman who shot him, Valerie Solanas.
Fresh off her triumph as Best Actress and recovery from a recent brush with death, Elizabeth Taylor is struggling with her hardest role yet: herself.
Actors Repertory Theatre Luxembourg presents a linked trio by Erik Abbott, unfolding across the Covid era and portraying stories of the pandemic with laughter and hope.
Your Perfect Life is a loosely autobiographical story, inspired by the lives of the writers and performers: Erika Marais and Faeron Wheeler.
‘Sensational’ is how one viewer described this high-quality filmed version of Mark Wheeller’s moving play.
Open the door to No 19, where love hits the rocks like gin and tonic… In Eva’s world, time has eclipsed.
In 1936 Spanish Republican troops disembarked on the shores of Majorca to recover the island, which had been taken over by the military.
Two women cross paths on a journey from Edinburgh to London that takes them much further than they could have foreseen.
Music is the food of love – and we needed to play on.
This presentation of the almost-century-old seminal composition, crafted by renowned composer Kurt Weill and theatre innovator Bertolt Brecht in 1933, blends the strengths of theat…
Three flatmates are in their final year of university, working through the aftermath of the death of one of their best friends.
Darkly-comedic Korean social satire with innovative staging and colourful physicality.
He’s dead, and it’s her job to prepare and present his body for his family’s final goodbye.
It’s only rock’n’roll, till it isn’t.
In his own opinion, by far the most important, Doctor Faustus is a certified genius.
This revealing new online play tells the true stories of four astronauts, united by a common purpose and a common fate many years apart.
The past stalks the present in this gripping drama with the world in a state of flux.
Marco Malgioglio portrays French actor, playwright, director, author and collector of fine things, Sacha Guitry (1885-1957).
If You Find This is about a young woman working as a carer, who finds herself on the brink of life and death.
Fringe legend Guy Masterson returns for his 27th festival with the perfect Covid antidote! Only six unmissable performances of Dylan Thomas’ timeless masterpiece, made famous by Ma…
Candlelit and dark as the Devil’s heart, the largest part of the Old Town’s infamous underground vaults dates back to the 1700s.
Beverly and husband Laurence are throwing a party for their newlywed neighbours, Tony and Angela.
Isadora Duncan was a trailblazer whose inspiration transformed the dance world.
Set in the early 90s and spanning 10 years, this play explores relationships and the toll these relationships take on the six principle characters.
FTLO Theater Troupe Presents Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady using the Arthurian tale (primarily drawn from Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale) to examine what our hopes are in dealing …
Greed, corruption and damnation are rampant in this one-man adaptation of the Elizabethan classic.
King Richard the Lionheart is dead.
Jay lives on the street, lurching from one crisis to the next, while Georgie is smart, ambitious and determined that using a wheelchair will not be a barrier to success.
Sex, thugs and bowling balls.
As they sit in their safe space, reflecting on their upcoming nuptials, a lawyer reflects on their life.
‘My life is a river.
Jetty Stars by Noel Kelly follows the life of Stella, a Jetty Star: a local name given to prostitutes who worked the ships of the city.
Son, brother and patient, Graham subsists on a full-fat diet of petty grievances and crosswords.
Sugar and spice / partners in crime / he-said-she-said / not talking / can’t believe / only joking / why did I / hate you / forgive you / miss you.
PTC Productions are proud to present Girls Like That by Evan Placey; a hard-hitting, explosive play targeting gender inequality and the challenges that people now face growing up i…
ChasingRainbows presents Looks Like We Made It.
It’s 1964 and brilliant young writer Dennis Potter (future author of Pennies From Heaven and The Singing Detective) becomes entangled in the life of a troubled young woman when t…
In a small suburb, some teenagers become captivated with a video game called Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom.
Three friends from high school revisit a shocking event from five years before.
An experimental physical staging of Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing’s book of poetry Knots.
A camp-out in the woods with friends is meant to help grieving Henry as he copes with the tragic loss of his brother.
The Coming Out Play is a 40-minute one-woman play that follows the twenty-six-year-old and sucre-sweet Lucy Moran as she travels to her parents’ house to tell them that not only …
New York City, 1911.
The NHS has a funding crisis.
Ziggy Stardust takes us on a tragical mystery tour through the life of a nearly-was rock star! Drama, tragedy and hilarity ensue to a live rocking backdrop.
August 1888, London sees the first of five brutal murders, the callous cruelty of which sends shock waves far and wide and etches the name of the most infamous serial killer into t…
In The Glass Imaginary, we improvise a brand-new play every day, inspired by the works of Tennessee Williams.
One dashing detective. One massive myth. One seriously fatally murdered family. Sensational thriller from double Fringe First winners Theatre Caddis.
Charlotte Brontë’s tale of a young woman’s courageous fight through injustice and hardship was a revolution in literary fiction.
Come see 30 plays in 60 minutes! Created by Greg Allen of the Neo-Futurists Theatre and performed by students from The Bishop’s School in La Jolla, California.
Broken Britain, 1987, Rita and Sue; two teens hungry for adult adventure embark on a wicked journey that takes them on a very raucous ride – literally! You’ll be shocked, you may…
Three Times She Knocked, an erotic psychological thriller.
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire 1977.
Winner of the 2018 Kenneth Branagh New Drama Writing award, this comedy about a tragedy locks King Hamlet and Yorick in a battle of wits between two old fools, where only one of th…
After their mother’s death, two estranged sisters, Jenny, an introvert who cared for their ailing mother, and Jackie, an ambitious socialite who left home at sixteen never to retur…
We find Lila, a young British woman, alone in a hospital for the criminally insane in 1928.
Banana Crabtree Simon.
**** (Daily Express).
Acclaimed immersive adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s classic, performed in a unique tunnel beneath Edinburgh’s streets.
A vicious hate crime plunges a gay dancer into a fever dream battle between life and death.
The Giant Killers tells the true story of the first working-class men to compete in the FA Cup.
After total sell-out Edinburgh Fringe runs in 2018 with In Loyal Company, and 2019 with Fragility of Man, David William Bryan returns with a brand-new psychological drama for 2020.
Charles II has returned to England, the theatres have been reopened and a woman is about to take the stage for the first time.
The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland is informed by a treatment for psychosis that has seen amazing results in Western Lapland.
Written With Crayons by Ciara McNiff.
A new play by John Knowles written for the students of the PQA.
Set in 1942, in the final days of an orphanage in the Jewish ghetto of Warsaw, where food is scarce, tempers rise and everyone just wants to survive.
A sideways look at Scotland’s international literary phenomenon, featuring Jefferson Airplane, a Subaru Impreza, and personal appearances by Fats Waller, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Pro…
One man sits alone in a room. Why? Beckett’s master work brought to life for the modern day.
Josh and Isabella are childhood sweethearts.
Charlotte was a legendary Hollywood props mistress who disappeared from public view decades ago.
What is it like to be the mother of a terrorist? A Mother coaxes us into her experience of anguish, guilt and anger, as she grapples with the monster she has created.
A remarkably vivid picture of one merciless family and three desperate lives.
Jade Potts is a much loved baby, but 16-year-old Honey is wholly unprepared for motherhood and lacks any semblance of support.
Award-winning production.
The Dandelion Patch is a play devised by a company of wounded, injured or sick ex-Forces and professional actors.
Captivated by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray trades his soul for eternal youth and beauty.
Hugo’s in no man’s land.
John Chesterton works in a world where political correctness is paramount.
‘I ate the divorce papers, Charles.
A gripping electric thriller, exploring the far-reaching, unexpected and devastating effect childhood bullying can wreak.
I’ve never been the biggest fan of Alice Birch’s writing.
From the postcolonial Middle East, to the EU and USA, old orders are collapsing.
The Hart Players theatre company brings Noël Coward’s Still Life to the Fringe.
Sense and Sensibility tells the story of the Dashwood sisters as they navigate the world of love, loss and society.
14-year-old reluctant GCSE drama student Callum is confused and angry – why has his classmate Lucy changed the topic for their self-initiated Theatre in Education project from he…
In a small Nigerian town Ben, Obembe and their two older brothers slip away to fish at a forbidden river.
The Bronte sisters’ tragically short-lived lives are reimagined for the Fringe by Eleventh Hour Theatre.
This widely acclaimed production returns to the Fringe for four performances.
We meet Lily in a therapists office in Manhattan.
Jess is sat on the living room floor, nursing a glass of wine… or two… or three.
Three women find themselves trapped in a small basement room of an office building.
When Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her ex-lover Tom Sergeant on a London evening, the two attempt to rekindle their previously passionate relationship.
Mirror Canon focuses on the subtle relation between thoughts and actions, showing the dichotomy between the realistic outside living world of actions and the repressed inner self t…
Kira was perfect; until her eating disorder threatened to shatter everything in her path.
Ghostly Tales are adaptations of Victorian supernatural short stories; The Wind in the Rosebush, The Shadow on the Wall, and The Best Room in the House.
Chic Murray was the comedian’s comedian.
London, 1946.
Brecht’s darkly comic play about the ascent of the moronic, childish but charismatic gangster Arturo Ui should be relevant for obvious reasons.
It’s Andie’s last night in her childhood home before going to uni and she’s throwing the party to end all parties.
Moon Walk is a funny play, with fast paced, quippy dialogue, but it is also a sad and gripping portrait of the effects of mental illness on American men.
Take a deep dive into the minds of a group of children.
Our show tells the story of two women.
This is a show about letting others and experiences steal your identity and what to do to get it back. As told by Sharon Stacy Statue.
We tell the story of a chance meeting on a train between a wealthy young graduate and a homeless northerner, and how this dramatic mirror casts light on the inequality of our socie…
Tin Tub Theatre presents a female-led abridged adaption of Anthony Burgess’ iconic novel and play, A Clockwork Orange.
Man and woman meet, they fall in love and live happily ever after.
A world premiere, Wingmen explores how different people react to overwhelming danger.
Some people just walk by on the train platform.
A young mother-to-be visits her in-laws for a Christmas trip.
On the night before Halloween, three grown siblings witness the cremation of their beloved mother and then spend the remainder of the holiday season arguing over the fate of mum’…
Tim runs the website Holy Land.
Fast-paced, high-energy, physical theatre that features Shakespeare monologues re-imagined.
When so many songs written by men are condescending (Wake Up Little Susie), dangerously demeaning (Blurred Lines) or darn right creepy (Every Breath You Take) towards women, it is …
Trans Pennine is a funny, fast-paced and emotional play about family disagreements, gender-identity, and caravan holidays.
A heartfelt tribute to Ireland’s late Nobel poet by award-winning Ulster actor-director Larry McCluskey.
Mark’s Gospel is our most authentic portrait of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.
A comic Highland noir whodunnit.
William Shakespeare’s narrative poem The Rape of Lucrece tells the story of Lucrece, a noblewoman in ancient Rome whose rape at the hands of her husband’s friend, Tarquin, ulti…
AW King and Paul Vitty have written an entertaining and poignant theatre piece, enhanced with live music, which digs under the skin of a rock star’s ego and internal drive, as tw…
It might be true that Brandy was first performed in 2010 at South London Theatre, but it’s still impossible not to view this production through the lens of Yorgos Lanthimos’ 20…
‘Welcome to the Dead Parents Society.
Rarely does the stage premiere of a work take place twenty-three years after it was written, but Out Of Bounds Theatre has claimed the honour with their gritty production of 44 Inc…
Being a woman these days is exhausting.
The Edinburgh Fringe exists as a kind of suspended adolescence allowing creatives to live the experience of their art being the most important thing in the world.
Raised Voices shines light on some of the reasons that people become homeless and how, when all may seem lost, they can pick themselves up and rebuild their lives.
Mallets takes place on a prissy perfect croquet lawn in Middle England, as the most tranquil of summer afternoons is forced to pay witness to a bloodthirsty grudge match between tw…
‘The men are gone and all has sunken into disorder’.
The story of Emmeline and Richard Pankhurst and the suffragette movement.
Trapped in a house, flood waters rising, Susan plays out all the influences on her life.
A powerful depiction of modern times.
This radical adaptation, set in a nightclub populated with drag kings and gangsters, releases Shakespeare’s famous yet controversial play from its comedic origins to foreground K…
No matter how long the winter – spring is sure to follow.
1979.
"I kind of want to die – but I’d really like to get into publishing, too," says Billie (performed by Grainne Dromgoole), as she explains the story of her first real l…
The Italia Conti Ensemble changes its membership every year as another cohort passes through the famous drama school.
One of three office workers is about to lose their job.
The Visitors is an original play which centres around a night in the life of heroin addict Danny Strand as he attempts to rekindle his old flare for life.
The world is ending.
Memories erased.
Franz Kafka’s The Trial as you have never seen it before.
Who can be a mother? What makes them a mother? Do we actually need one? Cariad and Catrin confront the dysfunction of their relationship past and present and the division that an u…
Ceara Dorman’s one woman play poignantly explores the abuse that countless women were subject to within the Magdalene laundries.
The classic reappearance, from the oldest influence of the East, shows the inheritance of culture with classical Chinese elements such as costumes, operas and dances.
ExADUS presents Bond’s adaptation of Orwell’s classic as a reminder that since there have been wars and intolerance, there have been refugees.
A mysterious case.
Ophelia is Also Dead follows Ophelia telling us the story of her whole life.
Steven Berkoff’s irresistible EAST makes an inevitable return to the Festival Fringe, this time in a vibrant and energetic production by HiveMCR.
Gill Mcvey’s play focuses on the struggles of dealing with dementia and the sacrifices that are inevitably made.
Living in a world where people don’t say what they mean or mean what they say can be tricky, and Reilly has questions.
Bethlem Royal Hospital, 1854.
A man and a woman are living in a refugee camp.
Whitechapel, 1888.
Peri is fifteen when her adopted mother dies.
First-century Jerusalem and the political climate is a hotbed of corruption and civil unrest.
Do you want to feel calmer, more focused and relaxed? Imagine a life where daily stress just floats by like a cloud in the sky, not a rain cloud, a nice one, a fluffy one.
Right before your very eyes, Susie K.
When it comes to comedy double acts none have endured as long as Laurel and Hardy.
Life after war is quiet and eerie.
Workshopped with young people from PQA Glasgow’s afternoon academy, Lewis Carroll’s classic quirky fairy tale is retold through the eyes of Glaswegian teenagers.
Directed by Victoria Beesley.
Workshopped with young people from PQA Glasgow’s morning academy, Lewis Carroll’s classic quirky fairy tale is retold through the eyes of Glaswegian teenagers.
A new monologue by John Knowles, exploring the rise of the angry white working class through the eyes of recently unemployed Punched, a Punch and Judy puppeteer.
Aged just 16 and 17, Harrison Sharpe (Matt) and Archie Stevens (Mikey) make their Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut with Real Eyes, an intensely moving story of brothers growing up t…
“I’ve not seen anything like this in the 12 years I’ve been working at the Fringe,” was the observation from one of the tech guys I spoke to after seeing Ugly Youth, this y…
In the Heights tells the universal story of a vibrant community in New York’s Washington Heights neighbourhood – a place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sw…
Following last year’s five-star production in Edinburgh, Keele Drama Society returns with a new ‘interesting and thought-provoking production’ (Audience review for Doors Opening,…
Very recently Polly Pattison discovered a hoard of letters from her mother to her father in the early years of WWII.
‘Ladies and gentlemen, the performance is about to begin, could I please ask you all to turn your mobile phones ON.
Young socialite Catherine Holly has been left traumatised and confined to a mental hospital after witnessing the horrific murder of her cousin Sebastian during a trip to Europe.
Doctor Faustus, a respected scholar seeking to acquire greater knowledge, turns to necromancy to summon the Devil and his servant, Mephistopheles.
Accidentally On Purpose (sponsored by Goldsmiths Drama Society) presents Piano Man, a short play in which four characters discover the true meaning of acceptance and understanding …
One of the most uplifting stories ever written, Michelle Magorian’s stunning Goodnight Mister Tom is brought gloriously to life in this stage adaptation by David Wood.
Eighteen children, one island.
‘It‘s becoming a status symbol today, the need to have a problem.
Hal is struggling to come to terms with her mother’s death and meet with her father’s expectations.
Karen, 17, on her parents: loving and lovable; secret devotees of University Challenge.
Lost boy on a bridge, a hungry talking crow, old documents float on the river below.
A play, a pie and a pint all included in your ticket price! Contemporary interactive play and great craic. See website for further details: mcsorleysbar.com/events
Shakespeare at his most sexy and salacious! A physically dynamic ensemble perform a musical, lyrical mash-up that explores love, sex and relationships in some of the Bard’s most fa…
The National newspaper and ELT short playwright winners.
The Tinsley family’s holiday in Spain proves an even greater change from Blackpool then expected.
A chorus of bawdy spirits lead you through this physically dynamic amalgamation of Shakespeare’s finest death scenes.
Newly engaged Jimmy and Natasha feel they’re the perfect match.
Where is the worst place to wake up hung-over? Answer: Budapest Airport.
This dark comedy by Mike Bartlett shows the cruelty of human nature through bizarre power play, manipulation and vindictive honesty.
Combining hip hop, drama and film to look behind media headlines to explore the concept of terrorism and how young people are groomed.
No Frills Theatre are proud to present the Scottish premiere of American Justice by Richard Vergette.
Sean expects a quiet night alone in the pub, but Lisa catches his eye.
TERRAtory follows Emma on her rollercoaster ride navigating her own DNA helix.
Hard-hitting piece of inclusive theatre exploring the untold stories and unseen struggles of people with additional needs.
Seesome Theatre’s new production Parasites is presented as an issue play, getting to the heart of problems with the welfare state, domestic abuse and teenager stuck in an unforgi…
World premiere.
Fight Song is part of this year’s programme of four plays by students from the celebrated CalIfornia Institute of the Arts (CalArts) at Venue 13.
It’s party time in Thebes! The war is over, the city has a new leader… what could possibly go wrong? Enter Antigone - devoted daughter and passionate extremist – set to spoil…
Backenders is a live comedy sketch parody of the BBC soap opera Eastenders.
An unapologetic dark comedy that illustrates the power of storytelling when a writer, Karturian, in an unnamed totalitarian state is interrogated after the gruesome content of his …
Flowers For Algernon’s the compelling story of Charlie, an intellectually challenged man and the strange interweaving of his life with that of Algernon, a mouse.
I Am is about the continual challenge of seeking liberation.
A new and condensed adaptation of Chekhov’s must-see classic; often described as the first great modern play.
X is a prisoner confined to the walls of their cell, placed there for a crime they refuse to discuss.
Cannibalism, werewolf trials, deceit, and murder: Marie Hassenpflug and the Brothers Grimm are trying to edit the darkness out of old stories.
Missing someone is lonely when you are far away, it’s worse when they are right there.
When was the last time you talked about poo? We’re guessing not recently.
Europe is occupied by the Nazis and fearing imminent invasion, the British launch Operation Columba – parachuting sixteen thousand spies across the Channel.
Discover the true story of Valentina Tereshkova, a young textile worker plucked from obscurity to lead the Soviet Union’s race to the stars.
Stepping Out, performed by Stage Avenue Performing Arts at theSpace @ Nidry Street, is a serviceable production of the British comedy originally written in 1984 by Richard Haaris.
A woman walks into a bar.
(Ab)solution is the first Edinburgh Festival Fringe Play from Swindon-based Jackrill Productions, and it’s an impressive debut at Greenside, Infirmary St.
Following the success at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe with the five-star show After Today, Stage D’Or returns with their latest work from acclaimed playwright Tim Connery.
Psychologists claim answering 36 questions can make two strangers fall in love.
As an unfinished text imbued with deep mystery, ranging from menacing abstract bureaucracy to detailed recounted memories, Kafka’s The Castle is a challenging undertaking, but th…
Time heals all wounds, but Shane’s healing might take a millennium.
Francis Bacon once observed that ‘in order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present’.
Told through an enticing striptease of revelations, this poignant and funny solo performance is a complex and deeply felt examination of life’s unplanned turns, deliberate shifts, …
A dark comedy about the young women who had the “honour” of being Adolf Hitler’s food tasters.
The Good Scout treads an extraordinarily fine line as a play.
A thought-provoking show about haircuts and heartache.
John Doe is having a bad day.
The blank, sterile corridors of Surgeons Hall are not where you might expect to find folky fun late at night.
Just yards from James Boswell’s Edinburgh birthplace and subsequent residence on the Lawnmarket, MHK Productions & Rhymes with Purple present his famed friendship with Samuel…
What are you willing to do to become a legend? A porn actor performing his last record-breaking movie: a sex marathon with 100 women.
Ten strangers visit the same park bench on the same day.
Come along and eat haggis, neeps and tatties, and find out the life story of Robert Burns.
Part insider look at the making of the film Jaws and part musings on what constitutes an artist, The Shark is Broken, written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon and directed by Guy Maste…
To some, Reverend Sheen is a walking miracle.
A classic retelling of Shakespeare’s tragedy, this piece is brought to us by Guy Masterson, TTI in association with Maverick Theatre Co.
Edinburgh Fringe sell-out show 2018! ‘Absolutely phenomenal, sensitively portrayed with painstaking accuracy’ (BroadwayBaby.
The pieces of the puzzle that make up Laura’s brain don’t seem to fit.
This all-female production of Macbeth was truly a sight to behold.
Six actors.
William Mastrosimone’s one-act play, Bang, Bang, You’re Dead, is a powerful response to the wave of school killings that have erupted in recent times.
Northern Ireland, 1989.
At Westerberg High everyone worships the Heathers, the exclusive clique, including misfit member Veronica.
DUCT presents a modern-day twist on the classic, inviting its audience into a haphazard and disorderly world, mirroring the turbulence of Hamlet’s madness.
A woman reveals her daughter’s terrible secret which only surfaces as the daughter becomes a young woman.
Set in an Ayrshire guest house in the 1960s, this hilarious comedy follows a week in the life of Mr and Mrs McIlroy who have chosen to revisit where they had spent their honeymoon …
In a house in the hills at the end of the day a grandmother remembers her first date, the man she married and the ups and downs of their life together.
At Thanksgiving, the Blake family gathers at the run-down Manhattan apartment in Chinatown of Brigid Blake and her boyfriend Richard.
At 32 Kate should have so much more: a great career and perfect family.
Evocative, innovative shape-shifting drama sculpted from the poetry, music and songs of Hamish Henderson (1919-2002).
Martin Bearne is a struggling stand-up comedian (‘killer one-liners’ (Scotsman), ‘like a deranged Milton Jones, only filthier’ (ThreeWeeks)), who gigs around the country, entertain…
Every morning, a group of teenagers meet up on their way to school and hang out on the benches in the park.
‘Off you go then and best of luck.
More of a personal theatrical experience than what one might expect from a show described as ‘cabaret’, Allie Jessing’s Hetaira: A Mythic Cabaret sees the talented actress de…
In a dystopian society, a child is selected to meet with The Giver to learn about the undocumented memories of the past.
It’s a long, hot summer.
Three siblings.
Xiao’s grandma suffers from Alzheimer’s.
With their country plunged into political crisis by anti-Government strikes – a group of young East German students are ordered to “persuade” the protesters to go home peacefully…
All Victor wants is a trophy wife and to start a family.
What happens when you’re at a private fetish party, and you bump into the daughter of your boss? Such is the premise of Kim Davies’ Smoke.
This thought provoking production by Want the Moon Theatre is a compelling exploration of connectedness – to ourselves, to those around us, and to reality.
An original one-act drama presented by Howard Payne University.
A play, a pie and a drink are all included. But did the crime take place or not? A courtroom drama where you are the jury. Hear the evidence, you decide the outcome. A must-see.
After a string of five-star sell-out Fringe productions, EUSOG is thrilled to present their latest Edinburgh Fringe show: Sweet Charity! The story follows Charity Hope Valentine, a…
At a personal crossroads, Ulysses, an Uber driver, embarks on a yearlong odyssey through the streets of Los Angeles.
Iconic is not a strong enough word for novelist Irvine Welsh’s generation-defining masterpiece, Trainspotting.
The story of middle-aged homeless alcoholic woman, Myra McLaughlin, living rough on the streets of Dublin.
1979, a beach in Brazil, a drowning man meets a mysterious woman who cajoles, questions and flatters him into defending the indefensible.
The Windsor Feminist Theatre’ production of Judith Thompson’s 2014 play about injustice in the Canadian prison system feels timely in an age where atrocities committed against …
Damon Runyon’s brilliant Broadway Stories became Guys and Dolls.
Following the overwhelming success of this performance last year, it’s back – and this time with a full cast of professional actors.
“Why do you think you’re a bitch?” Warning—the first question you’ll be asked upon arriving at Rock Rising’s Girl Bully might invoke a mini existential crisis.
Right now, there are between 60,000 and 80,000 people held in solitary confinement within United States prisons – many of whom have served months or even years in extreme isolati…
A stand-up comedian sees his world fall apart when his wife decides he can no longer mention her onstage.
Before 30 follows Chris, a Deliveroo driver trying to make his way in the world.
Shaving the Dead starts with two undertakers waiting at a coffin.
Meet the pals – Pete, Andy, Linda and Sue – in a hit new comedy based on the true story of Brummy council estate mates, from the sixties to the noughties.
Irish-born Phyllis was one of only two New Zealand women ever to have been honoured with France’s highest decoration, the Légion d’Honneur, for extreme bravery in WWII.
As might be expected, the environment – specifically, the “environmental emergency” we currently face – is one of the more notable themes running through this year’s Frin…
The performance opens to a figure eerily adorned in a rose-embellished mask, a luscious pink rose plugged into her mouth like a pacifier.
The Artists Collective Theatre consider what could prompt an eighteen year old girl to create one of the most lauded, feared, impressive and appalling tales of the overpowering nee…
Numbers starts with Jack (Henry Waddon) in a therapy session on a sparse stage and moves through the chain of events that took him there.
Willie MacRae – anti-nuclear campaigner, SNP politician and successful lawyer.
Greg will give you £5 if you come to this show.
Michael and Ana had no communication for six months.
The world-renowned Theatre Hooam makes a welcome return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with the award-winning Black and White Tea Room.
Multi award-winning US playwright Jonathan Caren’s razor-sharp dark comedy follows four friends on a river-rafting stag party that’s turned upside down when a mysterious woman kaya…
Hungover, perhaps, but not yet hung out to dry, Robert Burns awakes in Auld Reekie 2019 sharing his thoughts, poems and songs, casting a satiric eye around his Scotland and ours.
In this new show, directed by Dan Ayling, we follow Peter as he travels from stuttering schoolboy to bald old git via weekend hippy, bingo caller, punk and speed freak in his incre…
What would happen if the lost papers of a genius were recovered in the modern day? Four actors present a dramatisation of the life and works of Adam Smith, performed in the house i…
“Will they or won’t they go through with it?” That is the consuming question that hovers for an hour over Letter to Boddah, written and directed by Sarah Nelson and performed…
Dracula can return to his crypt.
What would you do if you could go back in time and hand-pick who you would become? One day a man encounters a strange spirit and is offered the opportunity to become someone else, …
Steinbeck’s famous novella captures and comments on the daily despair faced by the migrant workers in the Great Depression of the 1930’s, as they aimlessly drift from job to jo…
After a total sell-out run in 2018 with In Loyal Company, David William Bryan returns with a brand-new solo play exploring the effects of one man’s lifelong battle with the justice…
Brandi Alexander has reinvented herself; a self confessed D-list night-time personality back in the saddle after a five year hiatus.
‘It was about getting rid, not counting’ she said, but they needed to know where the bodies were.
Hail Ogg ‘n’ Ugg! Heroes! And ta so much for inventing the dog.
“I am not a bad person”.
This innovative piece by Cut The Chord Theatre is a fresh perspective on sexual violence, consent and how to open conversations that empower both men and women.
Tucked away upstairs at The Gilded Balloon, nestling right at the heart of comedy central, is an absolute gem which is a must-see for any devotees of real theatre.
Debuting as a writer and director, TV’s Marcus Brigstocke – known for his comedy and occasional film roles – brings us The Red, a play informed by his own experience battling…
Meet Melissa.
Nadia and Daniel are about to sign the lease on a new flat.
Pops is a complex contemplation of intergenerational addiction, featuring a father and daughter trapped in co-dependence.
A high energy, jovial start introduces us to a young couple getting down to some sexy time.
United by love, broken by reality.
Eddy Brimson hasn’t been on his best behaviour.
In the late 1960s three women were murdered by an Old Testament quoting serial killer by the name of Bible John.
Daughterhood by Charley Miles seeks to tell the story of two sisters separated by nine years of age and half a decade lived separately, coming back together to try and work out who…
Exploring the experiences of those seeking refuge in the UK, The Claim is a compelling examination of language, power and storytelling.
When Katie was little, she was brave: climbing trees and riding bikes too fast.
"It looks nice.
For All I Care is, first and foremost, the story of two women.
Best Girl is a story told by the nervous, but likable Annie.
This new-to-the-fringe five-star monologue show explores the conformities of gender and sexuality in modern day society, through the wickedly absurd lenses of The Foetus, The Camer…
Two friends, Ed and Sarah, travel to the small squalid bedsit where Ed’s father passed away a few days earlier.
Cleopatra’s death by asp is a common myth, largely scientifically disproven.
Aoife’s hungry and bored.
A true story set in a small town in Ireland between 1899 and 1916.
Returning to the fringe after their 2015 sell-out debut, the all-female Minerva company bring their unique physical storytelling to this adaptation of Medea.
To Butterfly follows the journey of two character’s lives in the build-up to a fateful meeting of finality.
An Alan Bennett one act play originally written for TV in 1978.
This widely acclaimed production returns to the fringe for four performances.
Alan Bennett is a national treasure, and his writings are justly well respected.
War doesn’t end when the fighting stops.
What if you met someone who was perfect.
Tectonic Theatre’s The Laramie Project is a masterpiece in verbatim, a chronicle of the 1998 real-life kidnap and murder of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old student from Wyoming.
An Alan Bennett one act originally written for TV in the late 1970s.
An Alan Bennett one act play-originally written for TV in 1982.
Inspired by the blistering 2007 film This Is England, this hard-hitting new play examines working class life in early 80’s Yorkshire through the eyes of a 12-year-old boy who becom…
A badly planned polar expedition in 1912 led to the Russian ship The Saint Anna to be locked into the ice of the Kara Sea.
In a quiet forest, where magic dwells, the sun sets and Pippin’s world comes to life.
I’d had a conversation with Dan about ecstasy.
The police just took Jamal away.
December, 1979.
Set in the theatrical world of 17th-century London, this classic play celebrates the backstage lives and loves of the first five actresses on the English stage.
A naive librarian witnesses an incident that will change the rest of her life.
Before I begin this review, I would like to clarify, as James Beagon (co-director and actor) did at the start of the show, that Aulos Productions’ Shakespeare Catalysts is a work…
Welcome to the Hotel, a magnificent establishment offering luxury beyond fantasy.
In a world lost in time there is a forgotten Figure.
‘Wizards, as you know, may not love.
A stray hand on the knee – a slip? A meeting at the boss’s place – a set-up? A campaign pledge on student tuition fees – for the bin? This play explores the nuances of poli…
After a superb sold-out run in 2017, Apphia Campbell returned to this year's Edinburgh Fringe for one week only.
Set against the backdrop of a school production of West Side Story, this is the story of Mr Taylor, a teacher in charge of putting on the production.
Every move.
Neil Simon’s hilarious portrait of three couples successively occupying Suite 719 at New York’s Plaza Hotel.
Hearing a couple of priests swearing will always be amusing.
A once successful acoustic duo, which was at the top of their game, suddenly breaks up for reasons unknown.
Nick and Mia: two young struggling writers trying to make ends meet who are at the end of their rope, seemingly without a shot in hell of making something for themselves.
It is frightening how Orwell’s nightmarish dystopia continues to ring true, year after year.
Census night, 1911.
Beginning in a frightening dystopia with five people wearing surgical masks manhandling one other as the audience enters, then as the show starts transforming to a happy young part…
When Ollie’s sister goes missing, we are plunged into a dark underworld that reveals pain much greater than the loss of a relative.
Imagine a world where every teen comes of age by receiving an empty box.
Take away the ability to put a scare into the living and what purpose does a ghost have? Sir Simon has been successfully haunting Canterville Chase for over 300 years, but no amoun…
Goodbye Rosetta abounds with youthful enthusiasm and passion.
Jericho is a show about internet journalism, liberal hot takes, and professional wrestling, which is to say that it's managed to be about a lot of my niche interests.
As old as humanity itself.
Before Chris’s wife died, she made him promise to be himself.
‘It doesn’t matter how we do it, we’re always going to end up with the same result.
Sports and sex.
Three young Scottish playwrights from the Traverse Young Writers’ group join forces with three leading British writers (Ella Hickson, Kieran Hurley and Sabrina Mahfouz) to explor…
In the beginning was the Word, but I honestly don’t know which word to begin with when trying to describe this production.
This play, set against the historically accurate backdrop of the first day of the Somme, features fictitious soldiers from the Durham Pals regiment preparing for ‘the big push’.
Prime Cut Productions: East Belfast Boy by Fintan Brady.
Using Don Taylor’s BBC-commissioned translation, Malvern Theatres Young Company presents Antigone, directed by Nic Lloyd.
The Grimm Tales are wildly reimagined in this exciting retelling using themes from modern Britain.
Girl meets boy.
MAD is a new black comedy from Cam Scriven and Daniel Bainbridge.
Bertolt Brecht: genius or charlatan? The question is answered in a piece of pure Epic theatre featuring 15 new songs and choreography.
26 Pebbles is the story of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on December 14, 2012, and the 26 innocent lives taken.
The flat is empty.
Geraldine is a lonely young secretary living with her invalid and overbearing mother.
Big Love – Charles Mee’s adaption of Aeschylus’ The Suppliants is a modern reexamination of western norms regarding gender and sexuality.
Deeply tender and sensuous, Sarah Kane’s Crave is set in an unnamed city from which voices and images spring.
True Arrow presents a series of scenes which readjust the balance of male to female dialogue by putting women front and centre with a multi-rolling cast of four women and one man.
Citadel Arts Group present Dancing with Mrs Murphy, an edgy new play by Vincent Maguire, directed by Mark Kydd.
Given how many inhabited his life, Picasso’s Women is but a mere glimpse from one side of the bed into what they endured.
With damning questions on moral and personal boundaries, Lines is a stunning and complex portrayal of sexual assault.
Step into the epic with Shakespeare’s Henriad! Revel in shorter, vibrant re-imaginings of the Bard’s Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V, and see a story of friendship, duty and betra…
The story of Romeo and Juliet receives medical treatment in Cepacia from Durham School and Shadow Dreams.
Allow the staff and inmates of the American asylum to guide you through devastatingly unsurprising tales replete with dark humour, absurdity, and truth.
Love, hysteria and deception reign in this Victorian reimagining of Shakespeare’s classic.
Shakespeare’s classic that has killings, maiming, rape, live burial and cannibalism presented as a latter-day story about a crime syndicate looking to find a new leader in the mone…
Laurel and Hardy – arguably the best comic duo ever, with never a bad word between them.
Rat Race is a dark tragicomedy set in a rat cage that is at the center of a badly handled experiment.
This gripping drama explores the intimate bonds of family.
BBC’s Angelos Epithemiou and Channel 4’s Barry from Watford return with a new show following their sell-out tour.
A war hero, a statesman, a husband, Alexei Petro had everything… to lose.
A new comedy drama.
Marco was never a popular kid.
Follow an eclectic group of twenty-somethings as they navigate wacky text messages, misleading profile pictures and awkward dates in search of true love.
Los Angeles, January 15th 1947.
Eight captivating monologues that offer a group portrait of diverse characters from high-class hookers to 7/7 survivors.
Born in Kansas, home of the South Wind, in 1897, Amelia Earhart reigned as Queen of the Air until her mysterious disappearance over the Pacific in 1937.
History Boys meets Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour as we follow four girls on the cusp of adulthood in this new take on the classic coming of age tale.
Glen Chandler, Edinburgh’s theatrical detective story-writing son, returns to the Festival Fringe this year with yet another ingenious triumph.
Sick, sex and secrets.
Fiesta in sunshine.
Stunningly original Korean update of the classic play returns to Edinburgh.
A play in 10 short scenes.
One-man show telling King Lear’s story in his own words, using text from the original and new words.
Set in the heyday of glam rock and science fiction, Rocket Man is the story of a young man with bipolar disorder.
A dramatic representation of the life of Adam Smith, supported by Kirkcaldy 4 All.
When the soldier goes to war what of those left behind? This is the question posed by InValid Voices, a new theatre piece based on interviews with women serving as and married to C…
Jack stayed on when the guns fell silent, to search amongst the rusty wire and unexploded bombs for those that could never go home.
Inspired by a true events, a young black woman rises to power in the Hollywood entertainment industry while suffering through an illness.
Are men really from Mars and women from Venus? Is it still just a man’s world? Will wearing the trousers make a difference and what is wrong with wearing skirts anyway? Do I have t…
Spectres is a chamber-piece play in Stanislavsky tradition, initially staged in the interiors of an early 20th-century mansion in Kyiv.
With Bassanio murdered, Gratiano is forced to revisit his fascist past.
Set in a class of sixteen year olds, Extremism explores the impact of counter-terrorism legislation PREVENT and growing Islamophobia in the UK.
David Harrower’s compelling, award-winning play returns to the Fringe.
It’s 4am and, for a group of teens, it’s time to wrestle with the changes in their lives.
Chriss and Damon are in love.
One of the hardest calls for a reviewer to make is where to draw the line between production and play.
Come and join the members of the First Dates dating agency on their journey into the world of love.
With an AI in every home, people have become increasingly insular, depending on and trusting their obliging personal robots as much as any person.
ETA’s 25th anniversary production of The Front Page, an irresistible comedy with thrills and derring do set in a news room.
Punching Judy is an original piece of theatre, which explores the secretive and insidious nature of domestic abuse.
Arts One Drama Company present Punk Rock by Simon Stephens.
‘Grief is a guest who stays too long.
Toby Jenkins hates boarding school.
In a cramped cell aboard a ship, six prisoners are being shipped to a life of hard labour.
When two Spartan warriors find themselves trapped and lost in the underworld, they must outwit a devious enemy, or remain forever in the land of the dead.
Becs is a single mum and leader of the opposition party in Scotland.
A man is bound to a chair with a sack over his head.
Some teenagers do something bad, really bad, then panic and cover the whole thing up.
The greatest master is passion, who makes slaves of us all.
Nature versus nurture? Are villains born or bred? Can they ever find true redemption? Theater OCU explores Shakespeare’s most villainous characters – Macbeth, Iago, Aaron, Tamora…
Tony believes in the healing powers of stories; Iain’s been scrubbing his fingers since 3am; Saffron’s stalking her piano teacher.
Tommy saw his whole regiment wiped out on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
In Barcelona at the beginning of the 20th century, a vampire walks the streets, invisible to those who choose not to see her.
Brothers in Arms tells the story of WWI through the inspiring true story of two soldiers, Noel and Christopher Chavasse.
Hester Prynne on the entrenched injustice confronting women: ‘the whole system of society [must be] torn down and built up anew.
Piracy is not just a man’s trade in this thrilling piece Care Not, Fear Naught from Temporarily Misplaced Productions.
A larger-than-life, theatrical celebration of the life and works of Gwyn Thomas.
Amy, a cleaner, has found a body in a hotel room.
After getting sacked from the Lesbian Rovers for being too bossy, Viv has a mission: to make five-a-side LGBT football team, Barely Athletic, league winners – and they’ve start…
Summer.
All eyes are on the city of Thebes.
Tony Roper’s perennial comedy hit is sure to have you laughing and crying in this nostalgic, sad and very funny play.
‘Of course I felt sorry for her I’m not f*cking heartless, I didn’t want her, whoever she is, to end up under a bush, god, but I didn’t want it to be me and your stupid f*cking…
The Monster in the Hall by David Greig follows a day in the life of Duck Macatarsney as she cares for her dope-smoking biker father who suffers from multiple sclerosis.
Olivier Award-winning Guy Masterson, (Under Milk Wood, Animal Farm, Shylock), now brings Dickens’ festive fable to vivid life.
Join Meg and her band of misfits on a voyage through time and space.
The nation has never been healthier.
Losing My Mindfulness offers an amusing and uncomfortable send-up of the self-help nation we have become.
‘I think it’s high time women let themselves just be women for a change.
Lillie Langtry, the most captivating and wicked woman of her time, has a scandalous secret.
Glasgow ’14 is a one man show, inhabiting the minds of four very different men and their experiences of mental illness.
From the writer of Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh and Harry Gibson’s relentless one-man show returns.
Abbey Road Studios, 1975.
The Island is an award-winning and acclaimed apartheid-era play written by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona.
Greetings from The Giant’s Causeway, Spring 1967.
Inspired by the true story of a young offender from Glasgow who had committed a violent crime, Blackout is a hard-hitting play about getting bullied, fighting back, trying to make …
A story of love, self-discovery, mental illness and ultimately taking responsibility for your own life.
In Papaya, the illusion of the West is bloodied with false promises and red wine.
Basil abandons university to join his Uncle January, an ageing party boy, on the sparsely populated Isle of Muck.
November 22nd 1963.
Attempting to create a spin-off to one of the most beloved musicals of recent memory is a brave choice, and unfortunately it is a gamble that didn't pay off in this case.
A bar.
Dr Korczak was a Polish doctor and writer, who passionately championed every child’s right to freedom, respect and love.
A physicist is on the brink of being able to explain the mysteries of the universe but still can’t figure out his volatile relationship with a rising star.
I Sniper, appropriately enough, starts with a bang.
The Enquiry: Generation Z – not tough enough or the victims of an anxious world that just doesn’t care? The Experiment: one observation room, two psychologists and seven patien…
Edgar Allan Poe is dead.
In this weird and wonderful adaptation of this mournful legend, Eurydice is presented by concentrating not on the passionate pilgrimage of Orpheus to retrieve his bride but on Eury…
Sir Nicholas Winton organized the rescue of 669 children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II in an operation that would later become known as the Czech Kindertransport.
Manchester United fans old enough to remember 1971 may recall the strange weekend George Best went missing.
A remarkable solo Hamlet from Horatio’s POV! Shakespeare’s classic tale of madness, murder and betrayal with incredible performance, brilliant original music and Sir Derek Jaco…
This odyssey for the migrant era takes us through the great storm of 20th-century history in the company of literary hero Leopold Bloom.
‘The history of England jumps off its axis.
‘Forgive me? For everything.
The supernatural.
Our Boys exquisitely showcases life on the battlefield from the setting of an army hospital.
We’ve all been there.
As funeral bells chime, a mysterious woman whispers a terrible secret to a grieving wife.
This touching and often humorous autobiographical account of a young girl’s journey from the lowly back roads of the segregated south to the lofty ivory halls of academia is proof …
Beaker’s only friend in the world, his cat, is dead.
Written and performed by Scotsman Fringe First Winner, John McCann (SPOILING, Traverse Theatre, 2014) and directed by Erasmus Mackenna.
Fatal consequences in this fast-paced and darkly comedic drama with unexpected twists.
A distinguished company breathes life into the lusty age of Falstaff, including Sir John’s audacious revels with his “King-in-waiting” Prince Hal, his preoccupation with sherry sac…
In a world where words are power, the influence of “friends” online can make such a difference to the choices we make.
JM Barrie’s classic fairytale retold through the eyes of Glaswegian teenagers.
‘Kitty my hands have disappeared.
BoxLit Theatre presents Romeo and Juliet like you’ve never seen it before! Combining cinematic film projection, live theatre and evocative music.
This sensational new production from this award-winning theatre company explores the depths of depravity, power, sexual dominance and violent seduction.
You can’t just take a break from your life.
Making their debut at the Festival Fringe, Stolen Elephant Theatre bring to life one of the great voyages of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration in Shackleton’s Stowaway.
‘What are great expectations? It means he’s going to be rich.
What makes a woman a witch? Who decides? Is it magical powers? Or are they simply women who dared to reject the status quo? In a forest where time moves as it wants, nine women, al…
After married man John Proctor decides to break off his affair with his young lover, Abigail Williams, she leads other local girls in an occult rite to wish death upon his wife, El…
Internationally renowned visual theatre artist returns with a dark, comedic, highly physical production incorporating illusions and masterful non-verbal storytelling.
Becky Williams delivers an emotionally charged monologue about murderess Grace Miller somewhat reluctantly seeking a second chance at series of rehab sessions entitled Notes.
Acclaimed immersive adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s classic, staged in a unique tunnel beneath Edinburgh’s streets.
Welcome to the subconscious fantasy realm of oppressed white American men! Davey Anderson’s new play follows young Samuel into the alt-right.
In Underbelly’s Big Belly, the slow dripping from a leak in the roof onto the stage has never been a more apt presence in a production.
It’s 2025 - a world of mystery, spies and secret missions.
Acclaimed writer David Ireland’s new play is a visceral, violent and incredibly explosive punch to the gut that passionately tears into the confused state of British identity, th…
August 5, 1962.
Other Peoples Teeth is a unique, visceral and violent vignette, exploring the emotional depths of brutality.
Both lovely and devastating in equal measure, City Love by Illuminate Theatre Company documents a romance that lives and dies in the bustle of London town.
Comedy in a boiler suit with a lethal set of ratchets.
Warhol: Bullet Karma invites you to meet everyone’s favourite eccentric pop artist.
Theatre Hooam makes a welcome return to the Fringe with the award-winning Black and White Tea Room.
Two funny and disturbing short plays by Caryl Churchill.
In a tiny living room in Edinburgh, a fraught long-term friendship reaches its breaking point.
A tense, suspenseful, edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller.
Wild young Hal becomes King and lays claim to the French crown.
This gripping new play is a dramatic exploration of three characters’ struggle with anorexia, as we watch Libby, Kate and Jonathan fight to regain control of their lives from the…
Eve escapes her mind with work, drink and sex.
’Have you just got exactly what you wanted by working hard and wanting it?’ A courageous look at the enduring bond of friendship.
It was irresistible, I suppose: part way through Dan Freeman’s absurdist play A Joke, the acclaimed Scottish actor John Bett turns to his co-stars to start a joke with: "Doc…
Inspired by real events: in 1969, in a segregated city in the American Midwest bursting with racial tension, a 14-year-old black girl, Vivian, was shot by a white cop, igniting one…
Starring husband and wife, Rob Rouse (Upstart Crow - BBC2, 8 Out Of 10 Cats - Channel 4) and Helen Rutter (Coronation Street - ITV, Playing with Fire - National Theatre) and based …
The magic of New York is effectively captured in 89 Nights, a new musical from Troubadour Stageworks.
Felicity’s on a fantastic date.
A love story, set on Preston Road, and also in space and in time.
Brutal, heart-breaking and often hilarious, Yen by Anna Jordan explores the relationship between nature and nurture.
‘Free copy of Risk magazine with chocolate biscuits’ shout Gabby and Matt at South Kensington Tube station.
Parody on love, friendship and shoes.
Critically acclaimed company return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Jeffrey Holland (Hi-de-Hi, You Rang M’Lord) returns in this sell-out one-man show about friendship, memories and a couple of remarkable lives.
A powerful and uplifting, one-woman show about triumph over adversity.
I hated Daughter.
Produced by Raw Material, in association with the Beacon Arts Centre.
Maisey Mata, a filmmaker, is invited by the Women’s Refuge to document their clients in order to raise awareness about domestic violence.
From the Chiayi area of southern Taiwan comes this strong and original documentary-style depiction of local contemporary life refracted through one of Shakespeare’s greatest traged…
An inspirational story of courage, caution and perseverance and humor.
Until relatively recently in Western society, children with physical, sensory or learning disabilities, or a wide range of neural and behavioural challenges, were either institutio…
As the UK emerges from a state-mandated curfew, three young friends see their newfound freedom arrive but with shackles of its own.
Award-winning comedian Rob Carter’s cult-hit creation, Christopher Bliss, is back.
The Paines Plough Roundabout is an incredibly versatile venue.
With the Japanese army rampaging through the South Pacific in 1942, the battle to save Australia is being fought along New Guinea’s infamous Kokoda track by a motley militia of poo…
Typical Emmy, to turn brain cancer into a game! Her husband attempts to care for her, even as the illness eats away the woman he knows and loves, and her mother holds faith with in…
What can you remember from five years ago? Or five days ago? Five minutes ago, even? What can you be absolutely sure, beyond all doubt that you remember? MALAPROP Theatre’s new s…
I’ve never seen a play in a 20-seat theatre before but, with the gentle storytelling of Starfish, a small venue seems right.
There are books which are called seminal largely because so many people have read them.
Home is a powerful concept.
Sherman Theatre: Regional Theatre of the Year – The Stage Awards 2018.
The Traverse Festival program has jumped into action, already selling out full days' worth of shows at a time.
The Dancing on Ice Live UK Tour will be skating back across the country next year, starring the legendary Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
The two great passions in John Christie’s life were opera and a beautiful young soprano, Audrey Mildmay, with whom he was completely smitten.
Set amid the tumult of the Easter Rising, The Plough and the Stars is the story of ordinary lives ripped apart by the idealism of the time.
Two opposing presidential party candidates are neck and neck in an unscrupulous battle for the nomination.
Harold and Maude is an idiosyncratic fable told though the eyes of the most unlikely pairing: a compulsive, self-destructive young man who attends funerals for entertainment …
The Divide, presented in two parts, is a tale that unflinchingly explores a dystopian society of repression, insurrection and forbidden love.
Unrequited love.
'You don't have to tell me about sadomasochism.
Tony and Emmy Award winner Stockard Channing, Freema Agyeman (Doctor Who), Olivier Award winner Desmond Barrit, Laura Carmichael (Downton Abbey) and&n…
Two tramps, Didi and Gogo wait on a country road by a tree for a man named Godot.
Have you ever asked yourself ‘did that actually happen? Or is it all in my head?’.
Based on the true story of a Ugandan orphan, Amelia, whose parents died in a house fire.
Set in the heart of Scotland, The Man Who Couldn’t Dance is a story of first love, broken promises and surviving suburbia in the aftermath of a broken heart.
Wired is one of several productions with a military theme being performed at the Army Reserve Centre, Summerhall’s new venue, army@Fringe.
CS Lewis and a troubled, questioning student in a scintillating and spellbinding 90 minutes in the study of the famous Oxford don and bestselling author.
George Orwell’s magnum opus novel 1984 is eerily relevant today despite being published in 1949 and shows us a world of constant war, omnipresent surveillance and propaganda cond…
It is brave to reimagine Shakespeare, in particular arguably his greatest tragedy but Lear by John Scott Dance is a deeply moving, subtle and superbly performed interpretation of …
An exciting new play about Jungle Book author Rudyard Kipling, exploring his extraordinary life and the devastating personal consequences of WWI.
In this show, you will empathise with a child killer.
Deeply political, magnificently performed and filled with tense action and witty dialogue, Girls manages to grip and amaze the audience with its characters and powerful message fro…
Alice is an up-and-coming reporter and she is assigned the topic of sex trafficking to research.
Next! is a gritty, thought-provoking and poignant comedy illustrating the trials and tribulations of three unequivocally unique and extraordinary individuals.
In 1950s Britain there is a rose garden.
A seasoned pantomime dame sits alone in his dressing room applying make-up, preparing for the performance of a lifetime.
Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy for our times.
Take two funny men and ask them to create a hilarious dash through Genesis and Exodus in just under 90 minutes.
Amidst the large amount of political theatre at the Fringe, Dear Home Office: Still Pending sticks out.
Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None is difficult as a play.
Scotland.
As one of the most famous American authors of all time, many people will know of F.
Cold Comfort Farm is the story of Flora Poste, a bright young thing who finds herself forced to live with her relatives in the countryside.
Sunnyhill School wants pupils that push the limits.
Half past five on a Friday evening, and a school’s electronic door-locking system shuts down for the weekend… with four teachers still in the staff room.
Connor and George have been long acquainted, but as Connor’s reality is distorted, do they really know each other that well? Interrobang is a new piece of writing looking at mental…
A sibling betrayal.
Theresa is a woman of the Italian high society, married to a respectable husband and lost in a betrayal that initially seems to bring a breath of fresh air to the solitude she has …
This play, set against the historically accurate backdrop of the first day of the Somme, features fictitious soldiers from the Durham Pals regiment, preparing for the big push.
‘You can open your eyes now’.
A fast-paced dramatic/comedic representation of the stresses of 21st-century student life.
Though history favours certain people and ends up silencing others, theatre can be a means of trying to give a voice to those whose perspectives have been lost.
England, 1823: the Industrial Revolution and a changing world.
The Actor’s Centre Theatre Company, Jersey, make their Edinburgh Festival premiere with Evan Placey’s critically acclaimed play.
Moliere’s classic comedy is one of the great originals that have been remade, adapted, musicalised and everything else-ised over the years.
Theatre is always at its most powerful when you feel truly transported into someone else’s reality.
A man collects stories of lost keys and dreams gone astray, wayward wallets and absent loved ones, abandoned playthings and misplaced memories.
It’s two years after the referendum, and Bob Cunningham has stuff on his mind: whether or not to take early retirement, politics and what to do about the no vote, Brexit, Corbyn,…
yt2 return with Birdland by the Olivier and Tony award-winning Simon Stephens.
The story of two women in need of a liver transplant: Sophie Undridge, a young woman with autoimmune hepatitis, whose life has been reduced to medication and hospitalisation, and B…
Edinburgh flatmates Max and Alan are perfectly happy swapping banter and joints after a long day of doing nothing.
The internet has altered many aspects of the world we live in.
Executed by student acting troupe The Hurtwood Corner from performing arts college Hurtwood House, Seven Devils is a play exploring the trials of down-on-their-luck Manhattan resid…
A heartfelt tribute to Ireland’s late Nobel Poet by award-winning Ulster actor-director Larry McCluskey.
Timeau De Keyser, Hans Mortelmans and Simon De Winne – together known as Tibaldus – are one of Belgium’s most exciting and innovative young companies whose work is fierce, su…
One million people on all sides were killed in Italy in WW2.
A show about the evocative powers of art must be particularly effective in practicing what it preaches.
Based on the true story of a Ugandan orphan, Amelia, whose parents died in a house fire.
Marilyn Monroe, movie star.
Bee, Dee, Jay and Vee – will they ever do lunch? Dee’s a bitch, Jay’s in love (but who with?), Dee’s got Harry’s mother’s dodgy wheelchair to deal with, and Bee worries about eve…
Unafraid to show the peaks and troughs of getting over an upsetting event, TheForgottenMoose Theatre Company put on an endearing performance of their original piece: The Play.
A touching piece of theatre, the young performers of Parker & Snell Youth Company have created an effective retelling of The Edelweiss Pirates and their struggle during the Second …
Exploding Whale Theatre’s coming of age romp Heroes is set against the backdrop of Bowie’s rise to superstardom in 1972.
This play tells the story of Sophia, a street prostitute, and Serephina, a high class escort.
It’s 1956, when men slayed business on the golf course and women had the dinner waiting.
We open on a reversed environmental crisis.
All-female Australian group Essential Theatre present their own gender-swapped take on Shakespeare’s classic.
This play is an abridged version of the stage adaptation of late novelist Terry Pratchett’s sixth Discworld book which is in itself a parody of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Ridley’s modern classic sees Presley and Haley as orphaned and perpetually infantilised 28 year-olds, unable to leave their East London flat for ten years following their parents…
Imagine a lifetime of feeling invisible.
Space Dogs is a historical comedy drama set in the early days of the Cold War.
Vaccine is a searing new drama created by the newly formed Warwick University company, Juvenilia.
Powerful one-man show based on the much-loved WWI novel by Michael Morpurgo (War Horse).
Morning People Productions’ self-written and self-directed Twenty Something is a wonderful, shrewd new play about the whirlwind of realities and disappointments in young adult li…
Tom Wells’s Me, as a Penguin, performed this August by Exeter University Theatre Company, is both a fun and melancholy look at loneliness, love and family.
Jack and Annie had the perfect relationship, right up until the day they didn’t anymore.
It is 2057 and the world’s population has reached 10 billion.
‘The articles are shit.
New writer Priscilla Berringer collaborates with Joanna Faith Habershon (2016’s Soft, the Moon Rose), taking a fresh look at old time classic Jane Eyre through the eyes of a fail…
An Actor’s Tribute combines new writing with devised content and improv to create a piece of theatre that explores the highs and lows of life from an actor’s point of view.
Home Front – Front Line tells the story of WWII through the lives of a young couple: Lizzie, a young woman serving on the home front with the Women’s Land Army, and Tom, serving …
Woyzeck ekes out a living on a meagre wage, earning pennies by eating peas for a dodgy clinical trial, while his wife cheats on him and everyone finds him pathetic.
EastEnders fans will remember experiencing shock and upheaval at the revelation that the culprit of a long-running murder whodunnit was 10 year old Bobby Beale.
Period production set in India in the 1940s, staging a spiritual journey two people take as they step foot into the theatre of life.
Wilde’s much loved masterpiece gets a 1980s revamp.
The biggest Dick in the universe is on a plural mission: murder investigation, self-destruction and solving the riddles of the universe – taking on God, Napoleon and unruly human…
At Wootton Bassett School, Leo’s class has been locked in.
Direct from The Brighton Fringe – an autobiographical romp through a midlife diagnosis of ADHD in the Times journalist Emma Mahony.
In 1950s Hazlehurst, Mississippi, the Mcgrath sisters have returned home.
One evening, 10-year-old Rhona goes missing.
Barrel Organ’s new show Anyone’s Guess How We Got Here feels like a natural development of the company’s practice and philosophy whilst also managing to delve into a very dif…
Based on the true story of the senseless, unsolved stabbing of a teenager, Dan Bishop’s dark comedy explores the impact random acts of violence have on young people, and their un…
The Amazing Clinic of Armour and Smith is an amusing farce about a doctor’s waiting room filled with patients in desperate need of solutions to their relationship problems.
There’s a real sense of excitement in the run-up to Stand By, not least thanks to the slightly-unusual venue—inside an Army Reserve Centre in the north of the New Town.
Premiered in 1901 in Moscow, The Three Sisters by Chekhov is a play perhaps surprisingly easy to adapt to many different circumstances, as it speaks about characters’ dreams for …
Laurel and Hardy remain the most popular comedy double act of all time, on both sides of the Atlantic.
On a cliff edge somewhere, a man is about to jump to his death when he is stopped by a psychology professor.
NATO Summit, 2014, Newport, Wales: Pippa is dazed, hungover and staging her own personal protest on the Coldra roundabout.
Inspired by August Strindberg’s groundbreaking 1888 naturalistic drama, Miss Julie, the action is relocated to a Reconstruction Era Virginia plantation.
An intense thriller challenging the villains of the business world, the bullies who take pleasure in their success over others, no matter what it takes.
Two Irish and eastern European women talk about immigration.
10 Rillington Place is successful in creating a chillingly uncanny aura; a domestic scene is twisted from the familiar into the unthinkable.
‘What is an artist without his muse?’ Beauty constantly asks this question as it delves into what it really means to create a legacy as an artist, and investigates how mo…
A boy washed up on the tide.
Ever thought what it was like to be in the most famous film musical of all time? Ponder no further.
A young bride returns to her family’s rural estate for a weekend-long wedding celebration.
Nominated for best play by the Anti-Trafficking Foundation in 2016.
Glasgow Central is a play based on true events, written and directed by Lauren Dowie.
Barry Hines’ iconic novel was turned into one of the greatest British films of all time.
Set in a bush, this play gets quickly into its own stride, with a persistent odd humour which flips on its head anything you thought you knew about a conversation between three you…
A child is born.
In the library of a grammar school in Stockport, a group of school pupils gather who appear to lead typical teenage lives.
1533: Henry VIII’s London, the height of negotiations for Britain’s separation from Europe – and Jean and Georges are having their portrait painted.
Walt Whitman stops somewhere, waiting for you.
Rudyard Kipling’s classic jungle tale is a blend of fear, wonderment, danger and discovery, brought to life by this talented youth group.
A group of boys crash-landed on a deserted Pacific Island begins this dark and disturbing tale of savagery, bullying and the breakdown of civilised society.
Wealth and poverty, opportunity or not, Treasure and India.
Imagine that you have only one hour to choose one single memory from your life – and everything else will be erased forever.
Take three different couples and get them all pregnant.
Life as a Goth is not easy.
These Walls is about young women facing walls in their lives.
Listen closely with empathy to what high school students are saying.
Moni’s got guts and a promiscuous disposition.
Halfway through David Tsonos’ tedious and rambling show, a former boyfriend, one of the many trotted out as a manifested recollection from the trio of bridesmaids, appears before…
If you could change one decision from your past, would you do it? If your answer is yes, we at Volition Inc may be able to help.
City Love provides an honest and hard-hitting look at relationships, starting with a chance encounter between two young London professionals on a night bus.
Three decades of killing - 24 hours to break the case.
Jan Groenewald takes us on a harrowing journey through a childhood experience of sexual violation to victory and riches.
Following last year’s five-star reviews for Sondheim’s Assassins at the Fringe, BB Theatre Productions present a poignant, uplifting musical which explores friendship, ambition and…
‘You live your whole life and then it’s just you.
Frumpy, single and jobless? What else can a twenty-something woman do but gulp a bittersweet glass of nothing? Fizzing with dark comedy, Beth transforms into the world’s most des…
Fourth Monkey return to the Fringe with a fearless and bold new piece of work, inspired by Bram Stoker’s short story of the same title and directed by associate director Simone Cox…
This is an insight into a piece of work in its infancy, and it does have a long way to go before it stands on its own two feet.
A true story, this dramatic two-hander is a fascinating exploration of 17th century life in the city of Rome filled with drama, conflict and art.
Benjamin Teel, a paranoid schizophrenic, believes he is responsible for the murder of millions.
Pucqui Collaborative’s Changelings is a thoughtful story about two very different existences colliding and attempting to translate one another.
As a big fan of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, I was very excited to see Boiling Point’s spin-off.
In the post apocalyptic world of nuclear winter, two strangers with the world on their shoulders, meet on a bench.
Opening with an audio recording of various real-life political statements – given by both normal citizens and political leaders – Sleepwalkers quickly registers its interest in…
As her lead character, Helen Fox explains that one out of every two people in the UK born after 1960 will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime.
Theatre aiming to portray the lives of millennials is so often completely wrong and patronising (no, we don’t say the word ‘rad’ any more, or believe that wearing snapbacks i…
There’s a lot going on in Luke Barnes’ Bottleneck.
Like Blood From a Cheap Cigar is a personal glimpse inside the intense, damaged relationship between George, a past-his-prime bad boy and Margo, his pretty, significantly younger g…
Scottish award-winning playwright and novelist Glenn Chandler’s best-known work might be television detective series Taggart, but he also has a string of successful plays and pro…
The Florence Theatre Company presents Cannonball, an irreverent new drama making its Edinburgh Fringe debut following the company’s sell-out production of America at the Chelsea …
A play about hope that centres around a homeless man as he tries to get his first home.
A play, a pie and a pint.
Simone James stars in Wondr, Poppy Burton-Morgan’s debut as a playwright with Metta Theatre.
For lovers of Tennessee Williams and anyone who appreciates good theatre the double bill of Ivan’s Widow and Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen makes for a very rewardin…
Chamberlain has been relegated to history as one of life’s wishful thinkers.
A killer haunts the shores of Edgartown.
A small group of survivors huddle in a bunker, eating beans and reminiscing on their favourite foods.
10th anniversary at the Festival Fringe, four-star reviews and sell-out shows! This year STAG is returning to the Fringe to present the completely original play: God Ltd.
The Medea of Euripides is a story of love, of life, of murder and of how all three interlink.
Quilliam transported us into their world with this innovative, captivating, controversial performance which examined Islamic radicalisation in a series of complex twists and turns.
You meet someone online.
Terror.
A tight-knit group of school friends are learning about the struggles of the Suffragette movement, but none of them are really listening.
Business is bad for conservative relationship counsellor Sandra.
In the latest text by Mudar Alhaggi, this play is about daily life in the midst of the Syrian war, the waiting and the disappointed illusion that the next day might bring about cha…
***** (FringeGuru.
A black comedy dealing with complicated lives, loves and buried secrets.
Originally produced at the Royal Court in 2007, it received outstanding reviews and was nominated for several awards.
In their new drama, Walls and Bridges, Acting Coach Scotland delves into the themes of home and belonging through a dystopian Scotland in 2035.
Three male dancers perform Company Chordelia & Solar Bear’s Lady Macbeth: Unsex Me Here choreographed by Kally Lloyd-Jones and cast.
Older egg seeking hot, young sperm.
Both faithful and frantic, young company Flying Pig Theatre have produced a very satisfying version of Euripides’ Bacchae with a deft touch.
Hope can be found, even in the darkest days of our lives.
While most sketch shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe play up to their comic roots, Anomaly Theatre Company are adding a touch of the macabre with their dystopian show iDENTiTY.
‘The articles are shit.
Weird Sisters presents Paper Doll, a cautionary tale of married bliss that becomes unglued.
Glimpses of a toxic relationship.
Theresa is a woman of the Italian high society, married to a respectable husband and lost in a betrayal that initially seems to bring a breath of fresh air to the solitude she has …
It’s a rainy day in Edinburgh and I’m not in the mood for a My Sister’s Keeper type of cancer play.
The Amish Project (Ensemble Version), a story of grace and healing, is a fictionalized account of the shooting at an Amish school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 2006.
Each day the London-based New York comic will read an unopened letter from his mother, sent before she died alone in New York.
Jane extravagantly showers her son with love and affection on his birthday, giving him cake and presents galore.
Five of them carried out the robbery.
Stopgap: a temporary way of fixing a problem or satisfying a need.
In our youth-obsessed society, women become sexualised at a very young age.
In A Different Way Home we hear from two estranged members of the same family as they share their sides of a complex family story with us – chiefly how they manage grief after lo…
Will little Sun defeat Grimblewitch and show her father how to forgive? A Hurly Burly, tale of our time, Grimblewitch fuses storytelling, music and movement to explore the impact o…
A chorus of bawdy spirits lead you through this physically dynamic amalgamation of Shakespeare’s finest death scenes, which fuse together familiar characters and scenes to create a…
Cockamamy is an adjective meaning ludicrous or nonsensical.
Good theatre should make you feel something and by that definition alone, this was great theatre.
This cleverly written piece by Sam Steiner may be back for a third year at the Fringe, but Walrus Theatre has still managed to create something fresh in this wonderful, captivating…
For a one-man play, Enda Walsh’s Misterman feels almost mythically large in its intensity.
Written by award winning playwright Elinor Cook, Out of Love is a stunning piece of new writing which conveys the absolute power of female friendship, something which is often over…
‘Tell me Connor, what happens when you run out? What happens when you take that last pill?’ With the clinical drug trial of Exspiravitacillin coming to an end, Connor faces losing …
***** (FringeGuru.
Energetic, disturbing and just a bit confusing, Fourth Monkey’s latest offering of physical theatre crashes onto the festival stage in this entertaining if messy and uneven reworki…
By Andrew St Clair James. Truth boxes are delivered around the world. What Truth is inside? Should they be opened? Would you want anyone to know your truth?
Finished just two months before the author’s murder on 18 August 1936 by a gang of Franco’s supporters, The House of Bernarda Alba is now accepted as Lorca’s great masterpiece of l…
Finished just two months before the author’s murder on 18 August 1936 by a gang of Franco’s supporters, The House of Bernarda Alba is now accepted as Lorca’s great masterpiece of l…
In Gratiano, a forgettable side character from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice steps on stage for an hour for a solo show about heroes, villains, nobodies and the rise of fa…
CultureClash Theatre consume the audience in Cassiah Joski-Jethi’s gripping political play Under My Thumb.
Looking for John.
Gazing at a Distant Star follows three lives individually dealing with their own losses.
Pixel Dust is a rare thing: a piece of theatre about the internet that isn’t utterly technophobic.
Glasgow theatre company Tidy Carnage explore the modern phenomenon of internet shaming by fusing theatre and film through Shame, written and performed by Belle Jones.
Described by its creator as a two-actor play of “a relationship rotting” and a manifestation of domestic “purgatory”, it quite quickly becomes apparent through this tense a…
How do you hold on to the world’s greatest escape artist? 10 years after the death of his father, illusionist extraordinaire The Great Ridolphi, Victor O’Meara is visited by detect…
Some Riot theatre’s new play is a rollercoaster of love, loss and the passion and pain of being young that hooks you from the first word, makes you fall in love with it then breaks…
Raton Laveur – meaning raccoon – is an original, bold, black comedy brought to us by Australian theatre company Fairly Lucid Productions, who are making their debut at the Edin…
If Moonlight After Midnight were easier to follow, I’m sure it would make for an incredible piece from Concrete Drops Theatre.
Funnyman Frank Carson blazed a comedy trail for 50 years.
Making a show about science interesting to a general audience is an extremely difficult feat.
Alison Skilbeck’s serio-comic celebration of Shakespeare’s older women, directed by Tim Hardy.
Hollywood: home to the fools who dream.
The alternative RSC’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s works might more succinctly be titled Shakespeare: The Pantomime.
Casting a blinding light on the atrocities of human nature, Tshepang: The Third Testament is a harrowing portrayal of the true story of Baby Tshepang – a nine-month-old South Afr…
Time-bending Ruby lives parallel lives: one an eighties boxer, one a computer coder for a modern-day startup; battling sexism and expectations in both decades.
Cathy’s just been thrown out of the supermarket for stealing, but she’s not a junkie, and she’ll kill any c*nt who says she is.
If you are looking for a show that demonstrates exceptional acting and physical theatre skills Tobacco is where you will find it.
It is ten years since Simon Stephens captured the chaos of London in 2005: within a few days London went from celebrating Live8 and the announcement that they would be hosting the …
In a month where white supremacists have marched through the streets over Charlottesville in protest against the removal of a Confederate statue, there could not be a more relevant…
Noel has multiple sclerosis.
The biggest Dick in the universe is on a plural mission: murder investigation, self-destruction and solving the riddles of the universe – taking on God, Napoleon and unruly human…
A group of actors, desperate for their big break, attend an acting workshop hosted by Andrew – an enigmatic but ever so slightly unhinged former C-lister.
In the 70s and 80s, TV star Johnnie Fancy was everywhere: barking his catchphrases, handing out giant cheques and grinning next to the pop stars of the day.
Sailor thrives in the bars, dives and flophouses of the most squalid ports.
The Traverse Theatre is onto a winner with its programming this year.
This jump-cutting adaptation of Shelagh Stephenson’s drama following two generations of domestic abuse is a decent attempt at a school-level production.
Cameryn Moore has made a name for herself as one of the Fringe’s great taboo busters, especially on the subject of sex.
For anyone who has suffered mental illness themselves, or has lived with someone who is afflicted, this piece will cut close to the bone.
Winner of 15 top South African theatre awards, Lara Foot’s story of pain, redemption and hope combines traditional African storytelling and magical realism.
Yael Farber’s critically acclaimed Mies Julie has returned to the Edinburgh Fringe and it’s easy to see why, with its incisive portrayal of colonialism, gender politics, and wh…
Women at War is an interesting piece which explores the gendered dimensions of warfare through a monologue by a female American soldier serving in Afghanistan.
“A musical about two serial killers,” is how Buried: A New Musical by Colla Voce Theatre describes itself.
Edinburgh flatmates Max and Alan are perfectly happy swapping banter and joints after a long day of doing nothing.
In a bustling northern English pub, a witty, bickering landlord and landlady and their twelve regulars masterfully lead you through one of Jim Cartwright’s most moving and exposing…
The Last Queen of Scotland is a bold and original new piece of writing by Jaimini Jethwa, commissioned by the National Theatre of Scotland and Dundee Rep, and produced by Stellar Q…
‘You will be taken hence to the prison you were last confined.
Despite Hope Theatre Company’s name, this production did not leave me very hopeful about the issue it was raising – that of discrimination against LGBT people in sport.
In the world premiere of Pulitzer/Tony Award nominee Craig Lucas’s (Prelude to a Kiss, An American in Paris, Amelie) zany and touching new play, three stories collide in a world of…
Truman Capote regards us with a look that cannot be readily deciphered.
Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story won the first Broadway Baby Bobby Award in 2014 as one of the most outstanding productions of that year’s Festival Fringe.
From two former students of Philippe Gaulier.
Sadly missed after a decade pushing the daisies, Pauline Goldsmith resurrects her legendary Irish wake.
Theatre Ad Infinitum have been a Fringe favourite for years; creating thought provoking and beautiful shows to touch both your heart and your mind.
Once upon a time, when folks did as they pleased and the world was good, there lived a girl called.
In this much anticipated debut show, Jon Pointing presents Cayden Hunter, an actor who will demonstrate the importance of selflessness and sharing through this (non-participatory) …
50 years ago, Ken Loach’s TV drama, Cathy Come Home, won plaudits for its gritty and honest treatment of homelessness.
Nestled in what seems, somewhat appropriately, to be a shipping container in the Pleasance Courtyard, two creatures on a journey with no origin point or destination try to figure e…
Acclaimed immersive staging of Irvine Welsh’s classic, direct from world tour.
Tony Award winner Joe DiPietro’s play reimagines La Ronde in today’s gay scene.
Too often, we see the First World War as a stretch of years where only war happened, followed by years where the art about the war exploded in its disruptive manner.
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.
It’s time to think outside the box, go crazy, go skydiving or just go to a different pub this Friday.
At the age of 36, Franz Kafka sat down to write a letter to his father that would never be sent.
No crocodile tears are involved in this deeply moving one woman monologue; it is emotion in its purest, most innocent form.
Sometimes, just one good idea is enough to make a show a success.
The story of a young girl finding herself through an Ayahuasca Ceremony.
It’s 54 years since the last conscripted British citizens returned to civilian life after completing their National Service.
Parents-to-be await their first antenatal class.
A curious boy, full of wonder, dreams of great warriors of the past and wants to be one of them.
How to Act is set up as a masterclass in acting with a fantastic twist that brings questions of race and gender into a topical debate.
Poignant and humorous, this is a semi-autobiographical piece of writing which roots itself in Co-coism director Hung Chien-Han’s upbringing.
What’s your life worth? In a horribly plausible near future, a government obsessed with capping the spiralling pensions deficit has come up with a price.
Andrew Bovell’s Speaking in Tongues: The Lies is one half of a Doughnut Productions double bill showing at the Pleasance Courtyard this August.
Three couples come together to celebrate some exciting news: Natasha is going to live to 82.
Siren Theatre Co’s Good With Maps is a multi-faceted story masterfully guided by Jane Phegan who takes us through this one woman show.
At a college songwriting class in Chicago, an end-of-year competition involves the students performing each other’s anonymous submissions for a celebrity guest judge.
It is a rare treat to hear a dramatised performance of Shakespeare’s first published work, Venus and Adonis.
The initial experience one is met with when the lights dim for Seanmhair (pronounced shen-a-var) is breathtaking.
Jackie is pregnant.
Gloria and Padraic are best friends whose relationship changes forever.
Fifty years ago, Roland Barthes told us to forget what we know about an author when reading a text.
Performing to a deservedly sold out crowd, this piece aims to start a conversation with its audience about a topic that is too often neglected.
Jelly Beans is a really, really horrible play.
‘Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, I am going to show you how to change the world…’ The world’s most notorious terrorist tells his remarkable, provocative and multi award-winnin…
The truth hurts.
A new play by MATTHEW DUNSTER Adapted from the novel by CHARLES DICKENS “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of fool…
Following a critically acclaimed, sold-out season at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Queen Anne transfers to the Theatre Royal …
“Stop behaving like a man!” “We are men!” Isaac gets home from serving in the marines to find war has broken out back home.
Following a sold-out run at the Almeida Theatre, Olivier Award winning director Robert Icke’s new production of Hamlet transfers to the West End for a strictly limited season…
Following a sell-out tour, Edward Fox returns to the stage with his acclaimed portrayal of John Betjeman, poet laureate and icon of British poetry.
Conceived and directed by Jakop Ahlbom A deserted mansion.
“There is no language for what happened that night,” states Salome in narration as her older self shortly after beginning this new, happily more feminist, retelling of the myth s…
September 2003.
Based on the first novel of The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster and the graphic novel by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli.
"I used to be scared of them.
By Ian Hislop and Nick Newman Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s The Wipers Times tells the true and extraordinary story of the satirical newspaper created in the mud and mayhem of…
World Premiere of a two-part dramatization of Elena Ferrante’s epic family saga.
Francis Ford Coppola’s Oscar-winning film brought to the big screen with Nino Rota’s haunting score performed simultaneously by live orchestra in matinee and evening sh…
Imelda Staunton (Martha) and Conleth Hill (George) star in a new production of multi Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee’s landmark play: Who’…
Time is the longest distance between two places.
This adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s best-seller was written back in 2006, a year before the filmic representation.
Estranged grandson Vince returns to his idealised family home in rural Illinois in the hopes of re-establishing a connection with the life he left behind six years previously.
When twenty year old Charles Sorley is killed in action during the First World War, his devastated parents are left with only his letters and poems to remember him by.
From the Oscar nominated Director of The Reader, The Hours and Billy Elliot comes the multi award-winning West End and Broadway production of J.
Dominic Cooper returns to the stage to play the notorious Earl of Rochester in this major revival of The Libertine, directed by Terry Johnson.
A condensed version of Shakespeare’s infamous Richard III, one of the playwright’s earliest yet most revered works, which charts its tyrannical protagonist’s rise to the English th…
Charting a journey of frustration, emotion, negotiation, memory, love, loss and the passage of time, culminating in the arrival of a very important package.
If you’ve ever cursed Human Resources for making you work with such unreasonable people, you should see what Thomas has to put up with! Mike Bartlett’s 2013 tale of Darwinian c…
yt2 Plus’ staging of Ella Hickson’s Fringe First winning Eight hits some right notes, but fails to really engage with its difficult source material and comes off as both discon…
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde follows a heartbreaking journey through Victorian England, exploring the mysterious link between the respectful Dr Jekyll and the dark an…
The Fool follows the events leading to the incarceration of its 3 main characters thanks to a law known as ‘Kevin’s Bill’.
Two presents working-class life in a northern local, a place of failed aspirations, unfulfilled lives and long-kept secrets.
As audiences members we almost always experience performance in a passive and inert way.
A New Case of Jekyll and Hyde follows Elizabeth Jekyll struggling to come to terms with her husband suffering with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Harold Pinter’s short play, One for the Road, concerns torture, and you can assume it’s talking about state-sanctioned torture, given Rising Phoenix Repertory’s decision to t…
There aren’t many plays with a cast of teenagers that are this slick.
Laurel and Hardy’s slapstick comedy still makes people laugh nearly 100 years after they made their first film together.
Chief Inspector Abberline is known as the man that failed to catch Jack the Ripper.
Beautiful, funny and completely moving, Really Good Stories’ production of The Silence at the Song’s End is one of the best pieces of theatre you’ll see this Fringe.
Grace and Laurie are two friends who decide to become prophets, in order to disprove the dying words of their friend, Eve, who recently committed suicide.
The Wall is a wonderfully refreshing play from Corby Productions.
Neil Simon’s dark comedy about Evy Meara, a cabaret singer whose career, marriage and health have all been destroyed by alcohol.
Pizza Delique is a Russian-run, Italian restaurant in London.
An appeal to those in power, uniquely created and performed by a group of unaccompanied, young refugee men from Eritrea, Afghanistan, Somalia and Albania.
The programme for Collateral Damage states that, while the play was written in 1999 in response to contemporary issues, it “has many resonances for us today”.
Performed by a company of young actors, this is a credible adaptation of Shakespeare’s rarely performed King John that revels in the high stakes of its historical narrative.
It’s hard to imagine a more emotionally-gruelling hour of theatre: three women held prisoner by an abusive patriarch finally free themselves from his clutches by shooting him in …
In Shakespeare Tonight, the famous playwright gives his first ever television performance on a talk show with host Martina, only to be confronted by his so-called ‘enemy’, huma…
Even plays were buried by the bombs of World War I.
In the sleepy town of Pickford in 1949 three sisters are bored of their post-war existences and want to start living.
Nuclear winter has descended upon the globe.
No Exit (Huis Clos) is an existentialist drama, adapted from Jean-Paul Sartre’s classic by Charlie Rogers.
There’s always a good smattering of obscure, seldom-performed or minor plays at the Festival Fringe.
In this play we’re granted a view into a future version of the world of Peanuts.
In August 2000, a Russian nuclear-powered submarine, the K-141 Kursk, sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea following a technical malfunction, causing the deaths of all 118 people …
England.
Inspired by the Alexander Litvinenko poisoning and the Hatton Garden safe deposit heist this is a dark, psychological thriller being delivered on stage to coincide with its product…
In a world where it’s possible to trade time off your life to change your body into society’s definition of perfection, how much time would you spare? 5 Years is a very eye ope…
In the near future, the line between war and terror is blurred in a military hospital behind the front lines, ahead of the final push.
For all of those who have ever questioned: what on earth are they thinking? Watch as the two halves of the brain find their way through the confusion of life and look to answer som…
‘You hungry?’ A boy breaks into a London house during the Blitz and is discovered by the man living there.
Spot the cliché.
I must admit I was sceptical walking into C +1 on Chambers street on this afternoon to see The Rep Theatre Company’s latest show.
Young company LUND have created a collage of testimonies from current, former and aspiring young servicemen and women in their new show Playing Soldiers.
Adrian Raine’s pioneering work in neurocriminology can be seen as a reaction to the supremacy of nurture over nature in the debate about the causes of criminal behaviour.
Vera Vera Vera is a black comedy that explores the impact of war on the people back at home.
The International Shalom Festival is a celebration of the diverse culture, music, art, dance and food of Israel aiming to build cultural bridges and develop international friendsh…
Hecate’s Poison is a one-woman version of Macbeth, performed by Players Tokyo’s T.
Prince Edward Island, Canada, 1883 – home to the young Lucy Maud Montgomery, creator of Anne of Green Gables, and to four young spinsters of Scottish, Irish and English descent.
This tragic romance has always been about the individual consequences of divisions in society.
iDolls aims to explore the dynamics between social media and feminism by combining various forms of theatre, dance and spoken word.
David Payne, having already portrayed C.
Theresa May went to Oxford, but unlike Messrs Cameron, Osborne and Johnson, she could never have been invited to become a member of the infamous Bullingdon Club, to which Laura Wad…
Bob Stourton has an orchard.
With hints of Black Swan and Inland Empire, Olly Lawson’s new play is a surprisingly arresting example of student writing.
If you’re expecting an uncomfortable exploration of mental health issues and the stigmas associated with them, the tone of Happy Yet? might catch you off-guard.
Start by mixing together a tyrannical manager, a sycophantic padre, a chief yellow coat of clownish incompetence, and dysfunctional punters.
Waiting is frustrating – more frustrating when you don’t know what you’re waiting for.
A new play imagining a secret meeting between US President Barack Obama and Chelsea Manning, the transgender US soldier currently imprisoned for leaking classified information to W…
There are many symbols of class division and expressions of social stratification in this country.
Harold Pinter’s two short plays make only rare appearances nowadays and yet they are rewarding pieces.
A cast of two.
Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning remains in a high security US Military Prison on a 35-year sentence for passing nearly a quarter of a million classified files to Wikileaks in 20…
Billed as “not simply a docu-drama”, Ears on a Beatle promises perspective on the post-Summer-of-Love, post-Fab-Four decade in which the two protagonist agents find themselves.
An autobiographical play about hope.
Playwright Anthony Maskell’s Fringe debut is as student as they come.
Nansi has just become a big sister for the very first time.
The Point is a daring and challenging project driven by female artists.
A splendidly constructed World War Two piece, that struggles to be heard.
Possession.
‘I have a voice, capable of both a whisper and a scream.
Welcome to the world’s worst school disco.
‘Wholesome’ is how a lady I spoke to after the performance described Felix Holt: The Radical.
Spoonface Steinberg, written by Lee Hall, premiered as a radio play which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1997.
A dark comedy focusing on four teenage girls an hour before head girl is announced.
The tweeting of the birds portends a beautiful day, but the view from the bridge is spoiled by an ominous thick mist.
What happens when a barely functioning boy band get the chance to perform at the Reading Festival? The Lizards is a darkly witty yet poignant look at fame (or lack thereof) in the …
In this adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic, troubled programmer Victor Stone attempts to restore his reputation after being responsible for crashing the stock market.
It’s Road, but not as we know it.
Beryl takes place in a cluttered bedsit, where the vivacious titular character runs a service that allows curious potential crossdressers to experiment with different looks.
The Italia Conti Ensemble returns to the Festival Fringe with their second-year students again split into two groups, each with its own choice of play.
Three rival art critics attend a preview in a gallery of modern art by the controversial artist known as Nem0.
Lucky 6 were massive in the nineties.
In the schoolroom of a country estate in the 1800s, Thomasina is discovering the truth about sex.
Caryl Churchill’s 2002 play about the ethics of genetic cloning and an extension of the well-worn ‘nature versus nurture’ debate is a challenging text for actors.
From the Fringe First winning authors of Jekyll! comes this brand new adaptation of Dickens’ masterpiece.
Never judge a play by its title.
Recording artist Alana is suddenly alone when her mentor father is seriously injured in a road traffic accident.
From the University of Southampton Gone Rogue theatre company bring Adam Gwon’s 2008 musical Ordinary Days to the Fringe.
The only certainty in Oskar and Thea’s lives is that nothing is guaranteed.
When reading the marketing blurb for Luna Park, I must confess I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect.
It’s two weeks before AniMazing Con and six high school theatre kids are gunning to win the anime convention’s group cosplay contest with a scene from Madsummer! – a modern-d…
An ageing cabaret singer needs a new act when his Jimmy Somerville impersonation loses its appeal.
You know their names but you didn’t know their love story.
There’s an unspoken rule on the tube: never try to start a conversation.
Hamlet is a woman, she is living the play from the lovers’ point of view, going into the depths of humanity.
Aberdeen Performing Arts Youth Theatre presents The Life to Come by Timothy Mason.
Shakespeare the enigma – finding clues to sketching out the man behind the prose and the poetry.
You know their names but you didn’t know their love story.
A premiering play based on the life of the 19th-century Indian soldier Turrebaz Khan who rebelled for his country’s freedom.
A powerful and compelling drama set in 1979.
The Fair Weather Felon is a short crime drama about a young thief named Jim who one night breaks into a house before getting caught by a girl named Lisa.
World premiere: a theatrical adaptation of Canadian Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro’s moving and enigmatic short stories of her Scottish ancestors’ emigration.
The play centres around Sensation Nation, a vocal group founded and led by the unstoppable DD.
This is my last morning.
Three-hour fast-moving, fun workshop for up to 20 children (11 to 14-year-olds) exploring how young people use their mobile phones and what happens when a teenager is left without …
A documentary musical about the childhood of Lizzie Borden, who was notoriously accused of murder in Fall River, Massachusetts USA, in 1892.
A captivating piece of storytelling that takes the audience back to 1939 and then through to 1945, telling the tale of two best friends in the army, a night club owner and three al…
Boy can’t sleep.
Trespassers will be prosecuted! In the garden of the selfish giant it is winter all year long.
Trapped in a bar after a mysterious explosion, a group of disparate twentysomethings come to terms with the fact that life has #nochill when facing potential mortality, and the #st…
A jilted bride sits festering in her cold, dismal house high up on the hill.
Two ardent fans of the golden era of Hollywood, Elizabeth and Gerri start fan clubs to bring their idols of the silver screen, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, just a little bit clos…
In a Fringe environment saturated with professional theatre, as well as aspirational students clawing at the throats of pre-professional placements, it is easy to forget that so ma…
The first thing you are met with when walking into Eagle House School’s Production of Burying Your Brother in the Pavement is approximately 20 young teenagers spaced out on the s…
Victoria Wood’s brother Chris Foote Wood brings Dickens characters to life with animated readings in the style of Dickens himself who did not just read but acted out the parts.
The Red Letter gang are newly formed and trying to take over the West End.
Here is a play with an interesting premise: what would Shakespeare’s female characters say if they had the chance to address their playwright? Would they be unhappy with the trea…
Elizabeth has Downs.
When someone has nowhere to go, a fairytale can take them home.
After the rapture and his second coming to earth, Jesus Christ finds himself transported to Hell.
After their great success last year, Interrupt the Routine are back with a brand new episode of The Gin Chronicles.
Mia is at boarding school.
Originally taking the form of a classic children’s novel, it is only natural that this rendition of Holes by Louis Sachar is performed entirely by a young cast.
Offering a poignant and intimate insight into the maladies of corporate life, this contemporary adaptation of Falk Richter’s famous play, by the prominent Lithuanian director Art…
Lithuanian director Arturas Areima mounts an adaptation of Falk Richter’s play of the same name, Under Ice.
Who do you turn to when you bring a curse on yourself? Blood Brothers is the story of twins separated at birth, as they fight through superstition and a class divide to continue a …
Deep Water Theatre Collective mount Bend in the River: a tender, Thornton Wilder-esque look at the modest living of lepers.
‘Do you know how they get animals to breed in captivity? They put them in the same cage.
It is a story well-known to millions, made all the more poignant and absorbing for its absolute authenticity.
Some Voices is a sharp, gritty and touching play that some may recognise from a 2000 film adaptation starring Daniel Craig.
It is 3 March 1960 and Marie’s biggest dream has come true: Elvis Presley has landed in Prestwick Airport, returning from his time in the US army and reeling from the death of hi…
Journey through time, space and emotion in two selections from Thornton Wilder.
If ever the strength of a story lay in its telling, Chapel Street would be a perfect example.
Why Grimsby? by Reuben Ruiz-Daum is a story of secrets, lies and the extremes to which a mother will go in order to secure the hopes and dreams of her daughter.
Alan Bennett has a problem: he can’t stop talking to himself.
Tackling an adaptation of The Great Gatsby, one of the most famous and beloved novels ever written, is not a task taken on lightly but it is one the Nottingham New theatre rises to…
If you’re in the mood for chilling, hard-hitting drama, look no further than We Are Not Criminals.
‘I’m afraid the dreams will seep into the day.
What happens when a group of young Australian performers ignore warnings and dive head first into the murky waters of mass media and terrorism? Questions around sensationalism, sem…
A collection of witty, intelligent and highly entertaining plays written for and by members of the Actresses Franchise League.
Opening to a darkened stage with crackling lightning and booming thunder, Mart Sander’s solo show Behind the Random Denominator provides a wonderfully chilling hour of late night…
Renaissance tragedies are rarely as enjoyably silly as Wanton Theatre’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore.
“Finally, for the first time, we are being seen.
In a sitcom-esque black comedy, three bohemian students lazily speculate about the end of the world, until they begin to suspect that one of them might have taken drastic action ag…
Sondheim’s most famous flop, Merrily We Roll Along, was his last notable collaboration with Hal Prince.
Sunrise is a time of renewal, a fresh start, a new day! Anna Snapp shares her personal passage through the darkness to the bright sunrise in her battle with everything from Crohn’s…
Hailing from Hardin-Simmons University in Texas, The Shadow Box is a reflection of the stages of grief, represented through a series of linked vignettes and monologues.
Our play Black and White Tea Room was first performed in 2014.
If your name is a lie then what else are you hiding? Join us on a whistle stop romp through The Importance of Being Earnest, a comedy of manners for those who have none.
When close friends Flo (Emily Schofield) and Becka (Octavia Gilmore) catch up, they suddenly discover that their lives are deeply entangled.
Following their ‘simply superb’ (AllEdinburghTheatre.
Enter a world where not everything is as it seems.
Friendships and relationships can be tricky to navigate, particularly when they become tangled together.
If your name is a lie then what else are you hiding? Join us on a whistle stop romp through The Importance of Being Earnest, a comedy of manners for those who have none.
Pentire Street Productions are proud to debut their unique two-person immersive drama at the Edinburgh Fringe.
In a darkly comic, brutally honest and extremely current piece of new writing, Martin Murphy depicts the life of one woman who is striving to make a difference in the world.
I’m Missing You is a gloomy, original writing production about grief, family, loyalty and obsession.
In the final days of mankind, the last nine human beings left in existence are holed up together in a sanctuary base dubbed ‘Plan Z’.
In this one-woman show, Klahr Thorsen takes her audience on a whirlwind journey that dips and glides – sometimes gracefully, sometimes not – between fiction and personal histor…
Bones is one of the most high-energy monologues you will see this Fringe.
Absolutely implausible and performed implausibly too: there are moments where Sins Borne’s premise works but they are too sparse.
A play, a pie and a pint.
Over scrabble, Jenni and David discuss their excitement about meeting their ‘perfect’ baby; then receive the news that the pregnancy is high-risk.
In 1930s, post-recession Mississippi, a young woman’s husband returns home following the outbreak of a fire at a nearby cotton gin; suddenly, a huge workload lands right in his l…
This is a drama about a young woman who discovers that a former history teacher of hers has become homeless on the streets of London.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of the most well known stories in the English canon.
Tom Taylor has produced a show so funny at one point I thought my lungs were going to burst.
Kevin Hely stares, bares his teeth and darts along the stage.
The work of playwriting powerhouse Ella Hickson has always been connected to the Edinburgh Fringe, since her debut show Eight premiered there in 2008.
Of all the forms of theatre regularly utilised in our part of the world, physical theatre remains the most beleaguered.
Drawing from Biblical allusions, Fourth Monkey’s The Ark, as part of their Genesis and Revelation programme, centres on people attempting to play God with the lives of modern-day…
‘I was looking in the mirror and thinking, who the hell is that?’ Caitlin and Sophie have always been best friends, so Sophie has always looked after Caitlin.
**** (Stage).
Anna stands pale and powerless before a jealous queen.
To make The Auld Alliance, start with a nice big helping of Jane Austen.
The intimate SpaceTriplex Studio, tucked underground beneath Edinburgh’s cosmopolitan centre, is an appropriate home-from-home for Quli: Dilon ka Shahzaada.
Family Values by Michael Dalberg is pure theatre with a good splash of violence.
A young man in search of fortune and adventure lands a job on a commercial fishing boat in the middle of the Bering Sea.
Charlotte goes back to Stuart who still lives in their once shared university flat to find him still taking care of the habitual mess made by their mutual friend David.
It’s a little bizarre to go and see something which calls itself ‘a touch of genius’ in its description.
Following the story of an Irish emigrant’s relationship with her father, Remember to Breathe is quietly affecting rather than arresting; assured and well-rounded rather than boun…
One soldier’s patriotism, as he battles both for his country and with himself, is pushed to the breaking point in this clever and current piece of new writing.
Great composers sometimes create a theme that is so captivating or remarkable that other great composers write variations on it.
In any romantic relationship, one finds oneself developing an intimate, coded language of in-jokes and pet names, a dialect that reflects a couple’s time together.
In this thought-provoking, inventive and touching piece of new writing, we hear about the lives of ten individuals, linked only by their mode of transportation.
A darkly absurd exploration of power dynamics, this latest production from Dutch Kills Theater is a thrillingly surreal family drama by playwright Eric John Meyer.
Irons the new play from writer Colin Chaston certainly pushes the envelope of believability.
Coup De Grâce follows the supposed mental rehabilitation (through advanced experimental therapy) of Emma, a young woman haunted by her past.
We very rarely think about our own deaths.
After comedy, horror is the next most difficult art form to tackle; although comedy reigns king at the fringe there is still an eager audience waiting to be scared.
Fleeing conflict in Western Europe, the women – soldiers, survivors, refugees, mothers, daughters, sisters – are all that remains.
A supernatural romance between John, a strange witch boy, and human girl Barbara Allen.
Spring Awakening won an impressive list of Tony, Grammy and Olivier Awards.
The Edinburgh Fringe has recently seen a surge in theatrical adaptations of Nikolai Gogol’s short story Diary of a Madman.
Vesna Tominac Matacic’s adaptation of the works of Croatian poet Vesna Parun is an impassioned and beautiful spectacle that somehow still manages to feel lacking in substance.
It seems almost almost impossible that a man could go through his life and when his naked body is washed up on a shore in Ireland no one knows who he is.
Put a person in a stressful situation, maybe, for instance, as a child.
Til’ Death Do Us Part tells the story of David and Alison as they struggle through pressures of married life.
The story of a relationship told entirely out of sequence as a play within a play.
The set-up is simple: an armchair, a side-table, and a teapot, cup, and saucer.
On the white frontier in mid-nineteenth century Australia, a lone, bloodied woman arrives at a traveller’s rest in the midst of a violent desert storm with a shocking story to tell…
Fiesta in sunshine.
One of Edinburgh’s Fringe’s many newly written dramas, Ciaran Drysder’s 2044 is a surprisingly gripping performance by the still budding North East Theatre Company.
This might only be Partial Nudity, but it’s a full-on piece from writer/director Emily Layton and actors Kate Franz and Joe Layton.
Something of a misnomer, Bad Shakespeare does not reflect the quality of the acting or of the performance.
A darker look at what happens when we refuse to grow up.
What should you do in a zombie apocalypse? Well, according to Rob and Paul, just try to have fun.
A production without any set or props is a risky move.
“I so wanted to please him.
In the economy class of Rhiannon’s plane, you’ll find a host of funny, quirky and honest characters, inspired by her love/hate relationship with flying.
Five-star performance in a three-star play.
Guy Masterson and Gareth Armstrong deliver a tour-de-force of history, drama and comedy in this one-actor show.
The Six-Sided Man is a tense and funny drama, based on Luke Rhinehart’s cult novel The Dice Man, which has toured the world for the last 30 years.
There are plenty of plays at this year’s Fringe which criticise gender norms and take on patriarchal systems, but Mr Incredible truly gets to the heart of the kind of beliefs tha…
“Charles Hawtrey 1914 -1988 – Film, Theatre, Radio and Television Actor Lived Here.
It’s indefatigably Wilde.
Queen Lear is a re-telling of Shakespeare’s Lear story from the perspective of his queen, confined in her chamber while pregnant with his expected male heir.
Major Oscar Hadley is flown to the Middle East front line to probe allegations of severe misconduct within a self-styled Bully Boy unit of the British army.
Some argue that the Fringe has become too corporate and professional, thus pushing amateur groups out of the scene.
Nobody should spend their birthday alone.
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…
Through raw emotion, compelling stories and snippets of reality, we learn the story of Holly, a woman living on the streets in Edinburgh.
An adaptation of Jan Guillou’s semi-autobiographical novel, which went on to become an Oscar-nominated film in 2003, Evil tells the story of systematic bullying and brutality at …
Though Shakespeare is something which has been revisited and reproduced time and time again, it is rare that one of the minor characters is given a starring role.
Twenty-six years after winning universal rave reviews for his Edinburgh solo debut, George Dillon is again Stunning the Punters! Herald Angel winner returns with stories by Berkoff…
I’ve left theatres in all sorts of states from elation to depression, anger to jubilation, in tears and totally numb.
Emerging in a Grecian breastplate of gold, to a poetic backdrop of Wilfred Owen’s Dulce et Decorum Est the stage is seemingly set for the presentation of a man whose view of hims…
Tired of her highly paid sales job, Rachel makes a move into social work only to find herself involved in a controversial case bringing her into the media’s unforgiving gaze.
It may be difficult to believe that something as uncommon as bilingual theatre could work.
Some shows stick in your head even if they are flawed.
The title song, by Cole Porter, makes an appearance part way through the second half of this narrativised collection of numbers, and really speaks of the character’s ultimate sta…
Set at some point in a dystopian, not so distant future, one Scottish man is trying to go about his day to day life, living each moment as it comes, not in search of anything that …
Charlotte Jones’ debut play, Airswimming, is a poignant, one-act portrayal of the lives of two women in St Dymphna’s Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
Timelines blur as Queen Mary Tudor stands reading the Financial Times in this capable performance that draws parallels between the purging reign of Bloody Mary and the policies of …
In a dystopian London, in which the unseen outside world is ravaged by violence, drugs and fear, Mercury Fur focuses upon the relationship between two brothers and depicts, in char…
As cryptic as the title of this show may seem to be, its basic premise is established very early on.
International theatre has always been a key component of Edinburgh Fringe.
Rape allegations.
Wow! Happy Together is a ferociously intelligent new play by MA student Kate Newman, and perhaps the most meta thing at the Fringe.
What should you do in a zombie apocalypse? Well, according to Rob and Paul, just try to have fun.
Hamlet transported to a slaughterhouse in modern-day South Korea.
Helene and Gordon are stuck in South Africa and in their same rut.
Gripping police thriller that will raise your pulse as it draws you to the edge of your seat.
My Eyes Went Dark takes us down into the abyss of overwhelming grief and denies us any chink of light.
Many appreciate conscientious objectors because they seem on the right side of history.
This is the forgotten story of a controversial gang that robbed the streets of London for over a hundred years.
After more than 40 years, mummy’s boy Frankie Abbott’s memory is fading while in a care home, still fantasising about guns, girls and gangsters.
Andy Paterson of edfringe and touring hit 3,000 Trees brings you double Fringe First-winning Iain Heggie’s classic 18th century comedy.
Meet Celia, housewife, 49ish and devoted mother.
If By Chance is a glimpse of life’s opportunities and outcomes.
Devised from the diaries of Fredrick Treves, Fringe Management and Canny Creatures Scotland present The Elephant Man.
Drug-smuggling.
It is my objective and dream, when at the Edinburgh Fringe, to discover great new writing – plays that are just beginning to make their way onto the world’s stages, at the forefr…
As you enter the white clinical looking surroundings of a backroom in the medical quad of the Underbelly you are greeted by a Stepford smiling woman who calmly leads you to your se…
Following its run at the Royal Court in London, Tim Crouch’s play reflects on our modern-day obsession with artists’ lives and how this interferes with and indeed obscures our …
This is a wonderfully complex piece; part intertwining story, part vocalised ruminations of Jack Klaff, a Fringe veteran who gives a stunning performance.
Most Fringe shows think they can squeeze two hours into fifty minutes.
The woman wants to marry, the man does not.
If you’ve been living a safe, healthy lifestyle under a rock, then you might not know that the NHS has been doing less than fantastic as of late.
A mysterious young woman with a dark secret asks an internet-addicted loner to help her disappear off-grid for a year.
When he wasn’t writing the books that have captivated children for fifty years, Roald Dahl wrote a collection of gleefully macabre short stories for adults, published in various …
Fresh from Cardiff’s The Other Room, difficult|stage bring their unique and highly acclaimed brand of theatre and comedy to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Mikey and Addie is a story about two pre-teen kids who couldn’t be more different – Mikey’s life is all about imagination and play, while Addie’s is focused on enforcing rule…
There’s a lot of camouflage in Dropped.
Hang, the latest show from Yellow Jacket Productions, set in the near future where the death penalty has returned with an added feature, the victim is able to choose the method of …
The description of this touching piece of work as advertised in the Fringe guide does not do it justice.
The strength of this production primarily sits with the intensely provocative script written by Philip Ridley.
Seeing Care Takers is like watching all the episodes of a fabulous five-part drama series in one sitting.
Written in the 90s, Jerry Finnegan’s Sister presents the iconic ‘girl next door’ story without being self-conscious and with a great deal of laughter.
Still Here is a new piece of verbatim theatre formed from an interview conducted in the Calais refugee camp during December 2015.
Being Norwegian is a play that follows Sean and Lisa as they talk throughout the night, gradually getting to know each other and growing as confidants.
Set in a brand new, purpose built 1,000 seat venue, this breathtaking show features a stage built around a real train track, and a beautiful 60 tonne vintage locomotive that steams…
Join over 7 million theatregoers who have experienced “The most brilliantly effective spine-chiller you will ever encounter” - Daily TelegraphSusan Hill’s acclaimed ghost story i…
The Mousetrap is famous around the world for being the longest running show of any kind in the history of British theatre.
Uttoradhikaar (The Inheritance) is the story of a time of change that revolves around the DeCunha family estate and the disintegration of its once glorious past.
Should one mistake condemn a man to hell? Blues legend Robert Johnson’s choice is explored whilst taking the fiery path.
It’s 1941 and millions of women have their loved ones ripped away from them, unsure if they’ll ever meet again.
Someone turns off the lights.
The concept of normality in relation to sanity and the individual is truly fascinating, and Normal Is An Illusion certainly introduces these ideas with thought and contemplation.
Carrie Clairvoyant has never succeeded in raising a genuine spirit until dead rock star Dean takes up residence in her house, leaving Carrie with no option but to call her estrange…
Woodbine Willie, the affectionate nickname of the World War One chaplain Reverend Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy.
Fledgling theatre company Open Letter were immediately onto a winner when they chose Ella Hickson’s recent hit Boys to bring to the Fringe.
First of all – a confession.
A musical about the individual struggles of a drug mule, and ex child soldier.
Cancer Out Loud is a student led organisation organising and supporting cancer related charities and events to get people talking about cancer OUT LOUD! One in two people are diagn…
Life and death, unlike knitting, doesn’t come with instructions! Hospital patient Marigold is intrigued by her new roomie.
Angie Darcy returns to the fringe with her stellar tribute to and exploration of Janis Joplin.
WeAct is the premier amateur theatrical drama group in China.
Two shows, two actors and two classics – hear the true story about the love between two sisters followed by the tale of hatred between two souls.
The Times They Are a Changin’ takes you on a journey from the Second World War to the present day.
Jack BK’s original written piece deals with class struggles, privilege and ignorance in a clear and effective way.
Duende – the shiver of response produced against the constant awareness of death’s inevitability.
They were more like sisters than best friends until a devastating tragedy shatters both their lives and friendship.
Downton Scabby follows the lives of the Downton when they fall on hard times.
Academy of Risk explores the tremendous pressure placed on students through their own eyes.
Pressure.
Piaf opens with a spectacular tableau of the entire cast.
Full of sex and fury, a funny, affectionate and sharp exposé of life in London’s East End.
What if you lost everything? What if you couldn’t go home? What if you forgot what home meant anymore? What if you lost your friends? What if you had no one? In alliance with Gil…
Italia Conti Ensemble score an absolute triumph with Neil Bartlett’s Oliver Twist.
Past Glories – two one-act plays celebrating the power of memory.
Using projection, live cameras and audience voting, #Realiti is a lot like Big Brother, but not as you know it.
‘Be my little baby,’ intone The Ronettes as the Swinging Sixties unleash a wave of sexual liberation for women.
What is left for a woman who has who has nothing left to live for? Anna has given up everything to pursue a career in the music industry.
Based on the script Mountains and Seas by Gao Xing-Jian, the play premiered at the National Theatre in Taipei, 2013.
Dealing with the gritty, controversial subjects of dementia and care of the elderly, Bedsocks and Secrets explores the changing relationship between mother and son as her symptoms …
A serial killer recounts his tale of revenge in this retelling of the classic novel.
Take a walk on the wild side and experience the embodiment of animal behaviours into human characters.
One of the most exciting solo shows of the past decade.
In the economy class of Rhiannon’s plane, you’ll find a host of funny, quirky and honest characters, inspired by her love-hate relationship with flying.
In the economy class of Rhiannon’s plane, you’ll find a host of funny, quirky and honest characters, inspired by her love-hate relationship with flying.
Aimee has an ironically funny line in Savage when she refers to John as “a boring old queen”.
Cancer sick and heart sick, Madame Wu reflects on her life, love, and present circumstances.
John Bunyan’s 1678 text The Pilgrim’s Progress is regarded as one of the most significant works of literature in the English Language.
The new Gaelic language play Sequamur, by Donald S Murray, reflects on the life of educationalist William J Gibson, headmaster of the Nicolson Institute, Stornoway between 1894 and…
With a cast of nearly fifty, there’s no shortage of oom-pah-pah in this dazzling production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! by Stage 84, The Yorkshire School of Performing Arts.
Enjoying the perks of self-imposed exile in England, the Haggis Queen finds herself suddenly adrift when the Independence Referendum hits and she must decide on which side of the b…
Written by Ireland Professor of Poetry, Paula Meehan, Music for Dogs is a story of survival, set during Ireland’s Celtic Tiger years, and takes place on Dublin’s Burrow beach.
What would you do for love? What would you do for money? In our world of pay day loans and credit on tap how easy is it to become overwhelmed? Jess’ craving for more than she can…
Swearing more than a band of sailors, the cast of Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour present an entirely candid portrait of female teenage sexuality and lives.
‘You know what the cruellest thing I ever did to anybody was? I’ll tell you’.
When two precocious, self-important students uncover a student-teacher relationship scandal at their private school, they plan to exploit it for their own gain and, in so doing, ho…
Gask 1847.
Kenny Roach is an artist, lecturer and alcoholic.
Drama from the pen of one of the nation’s best loved playwrights.
Six women await their fate in a prison, while their homes, lives and families burn to the ground.
Three drag queens in a dressing room talk us through their life stories, from coming out to discovering drag.
The Romanovs is not about royalty.
If you go to see one show this year at the Fringe, make it A Fistful of Hunny.
If there was a drop of water for every play ever staged about how money won’t bring you happiness during the Fringe, then Edinburgh would experience major flooding.
If you are looking for some respite from hackneyed scripts and dodgy accents, you are not going to find it in Sanctuary.
Britain 2015 - we take, we buy and then we put it on credit… Sebastian and Penelope are in love, inseparable and living beyond their means.
The third play in the Denial Trilogy.
There are three things which are undeniably British: Geoffrey Chaucer, trains and casual drinking.
Jeff is a Minneapolis sports anchor who hasn’t had a drink in years – not a drop.
Brand New and Pembroke Players’ joint production of Thom May’s war war brand war is wonderfully witty and compelling.
This is a show I really wanted to enjoy; each part of the production tries very hard to achieve an ambitious vision, but don’t quite make it.
Dorothy, part of the Wendy House Trilogy, is a humour-infused adaptation of The Wizard of Oz written by Greg and Joe Allen and directed by Joe Allen.
During the filming of a live Sunday night third-rate quiz show, tensions between crew members, contestants, and ex-GMTV presenter and troubled prick Steve O’Neill reach tipping poi…
A sweet, beguiling Shakespearean romance is skilfully reimagined against the backdrop of the Second World War in Youth Action Theatre (YAT)’s appealing production of All’s Well…
Eighteen-year-old Michael and his fourteen-year-old brother Brucie – who has been considered mentally slow since birth – venture out on a camping trip together.
The American High School Theatre Festival brings a sliver of Tolkien’s Middle Earth to an Edinburgh stage in their very ambitious fantasy adaptation of The Hobbit, performed usin…
Phillip the magician has forgotten how to do magic.
Richard is plotting his escape to art college, just as lecturer Graham settles in.
Potemkin’s People is one of two shows performing on alternate nights under the joint title of Elysium Fields from B-Land Productions.
Come and explore the streets of Milton Keynes.
This ‘pitch black comedy’ revolves around three unlikely friends sat in a room for what we believe is a friendly get together.
The sweet and earnestly acted production of Tom Wells’ The Kitchen Sink at The Space @Surgeons’ Hall depicts a young Hull family whose emotions run hot and cold.
Glasgow-based Birds of Paradise Theatre Company is arguably Scotland’s most innovative and ground-breaking theatre company when it comes to exploring disability and producing ful…
A sharply witty exploration of parenting and schoolgirl obsession.
Shakespeare’s tale of jealousy and revenge retold by a vibrant young cast.
Mark Ravenhill’s play uses the metaphor of two brothers – twins – to represent the former partitioning of Germany into East and West during the time of the Berlin wall.
This young company from The Theatre School in Tunbridge Wells, Kent brings an array of engaging, emotional, and believable performances to Dennis Kelly’s gritty play.
Peter is the first show in The Wendy House Trilogy produced by Jealous Whale Theatre.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous creation is given a shaky new lease of life in this parody adventure by Tobacco Tea.
Two Thirds charts the endlessly tangled lives of a group of university friends after graduation.
Soulful musical that bursts off the stage with moving songs and powerful performances.
Pippin is a difficult musical, and in the past has been staged as a fully-fledged acrobatic circus (Les 7 Doigts de la Main did a great job).
Based on an obscure 1991 feature film, Dogfight is a recent musical from the talented composing duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, that showtune aficionados may know from Edges, a sho…
A young Jewish woman in Nazi Germany prepares herself for her journey eastwards to a concentration camp.
The Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club has failed to hit the nail on the mark with their latest show Picasso Stole the Mona Lisa.
Unzip your tent, slip on your wellies and be prepared to be transported to a music explosion.
When her brother signs up for the front lines of World War One, Jean looks for a way to bring him home.
In this stylised adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey, Naomi Iizuka creates a modern day Odysseus in a young refugee named Anon.
Lillian, vibrant, funny, wise, and recently deceased, discovers she cannot move on until rifts with her estranged family are mended.
War is a constant in our lives; a part of the combined human experience that while intensely distressing seems an integral and inherent aspect of what it is to be human.
Set aboard a convict ship on its way to Australia, Steve Gooch’s stark, hard-hitting drama tells the story of six female convicts on their six-month journey and their determination…
Four people with a few more mutual friends than they might expect trip round one another in Strawberries in January, a play that mixes and matches the tropes of romantic comedies w…
Students of Cambridge University have reinterpreted Shakespeare’s popular comedy, putting a darker spin on the story.
A young Filipina-American confronts the mystery of her origin and her experience of molestation in an attempt to crush the damaging shadows of her past and find a love of self.
Site specific theatre is a great way to immerse an audience into the world that the piece creates.
Thread Theatre’s production of Alan Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests is a boisterous and entertaining farce.
‘The play, Scarfed for Life, is a loud, lively piece about sectarianism in Glasgow .
A Japanese woman, Shoko, meets Jura, a Russian man in Berlin airport.
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.
One of Scotland’s best-loved comedies.
We open with a group of young Southern belles, beautifully attired in vintage-style dresses, learning how to apply make-up to please their husbands, so setting up the conservative …
Experimentation, dissipation, drug trips and k-holes.
This rehearsed reading of Peter Arnott’s new play is an experiment about theatre.
Stunning open-air theatre in beautiful gardens by one of Scotland’s oldest professional theatre companies.
Amid the discussion over the Irish Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill this year, Since Maggie Went Away could not come at a more relevant time.
1949: Maggie, an Irish country girl, secretly gives birth to a baby boy and is forced to give him away.
Vanishing Point’s latest devised show opens with three figures creating what look to be masks, perhaps of their future selves.
Your Fringe guide might describe Double Bill differently than it actually is.
As a career move, dying was the savviest option for Jimmy Savile.
One life.
With a large cast aged between 12 and 13, Breaking Voices is an original piece that explores bullying and peer pressure at that age, especially in a school environment.
If ever there were a production which vociferously defends the ability of young people to make theatre with the impact of a professional standard (whatever that actually means) thi…
A thrilling adventure set in an alternative history of England, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase tells the story of two brave, determined girls as they fight against ferocious wolves…
Alice Hauptmann (Helena de Crespo) invites you, her acquaintances, to tea in this one-woman play by American playwright David Adjmi.
Sometimes a production doesn’t come together and it’s not for a lack of trying.
Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden is one of my all time favourite plays; it is a beautifully written text, teeming with monologues many actors would dream to get their hands o…
This show is my interpretation of the Sonnets. Let us together rediscover the comic genius, beauty and tragedy of the greatest love poems ever written in the English language.
Chekhov just got sexy! This hilarious new musical sees some of Anton Chekhov’s best loved characters reimagined and thrown together, dreaming of Moscow.
Deeply rooted in a world of folklore and fairytale, the talented IndigoCo bring a dark and familiar musical tale of a girl who, despite the cruelty of her stepmother and sisters, f…
Be transported by this enormously spirited and fast-moving production to the mischievous world of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The challenge for any writer tackling the well-worn topic of WWII is to find a particular niche or angle which has not previously been given adequate treatment.
Edmonton: such an idyllic village.
Surbiton, 1968.
Running Torch’s The Wishing-Chair Adventures prides itself on audience interaction.
It’s 1914 and Professor Hermann Ethé and his wife are living a happy, bohemian life in Aberystwyth.
Wing it, Dusty tells the story of Deirdre and Roni who make the perfect couple.
Bullet in the Brain is a devised play from the short story of the same name by Tobias Wolff.
Many religions insist that humanity was created in God’s image; others argue that, throughout history, the process has been the other way round.
Brilliantly acted and superbly written, Bismillah! is one of the best shows I have ever seen at the Fringe or anywhere else.
Fresh from their sell-out show in 2014 Edinburgh Fringe, Saughtonhall Drama brings Cheshire Cats to Edinburgh for its first appearance since its debut in 2006.
Four readings, four brand new plays, four emerging writers, from Scotland, England and the USA.
A light-hearted, comical spoof of the dating scene, offering a satirical glance at often stereotypical portrayals of gender.
Brashly comic and acutely emotional, bravely exploring a woman’s intrinsic role in life’s creation.
Andy’s stag weekend was epic! In fact, it was so mind-blowingly legendary… he didn’t survive it.
This double bill of new writing by Tom Coash brings us to Cairo, where we’re welcomed with dates and hookah pipes.
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Scotland has a bit of a communist history.
Dr Sara Chris (Sam Wheatley) is a frustrated eco-activist who wants to help save the world; after an ill-advised deal with the Devil she achieves the power to get what she wants, b…
A portrait of one of South Africa’s most prolific writer’s prison experience in the 1920s.
A care worker.
If you love The Apprentice, you’ll be disappointed to discover that despite brandishing Lord Alan Sugar across their posters, Practical Magic’s Desperately Seeking Sugar has li…
When Gaby disappeared from her Scottish home in 2006, it was assumed that her Pakistani father had kidnapped her.
Having to read the blurb on the back of the flyer at the end of the show, checking that the point hasn’t flown over heads, is never a good sign.
The best thing about Terry Pratchett’s work was his ability in world creation.
An original comedy written and performed by real life brother and sister.
Chekhov’s short stories are brought to life in this kaleidoscopic production, capturing the essence of a parochial Russia where cruelty, absurdity and social satire are dished out …
Bold Girls is a dark comedy about the friendship of four women living in the midst of war-torn Belfast.
Mrs Shakespeare is a bold and thought provoking show about a woman struggling to find her own identity in a male-dominated world, as told by a gender-bent reincarnation of William …
Where do letters and parcels go, when – because of an incomplete address, or lack of forwarding address – they can’t be delivered? According to Catherine Expósito and Marli …
Jonas’ world is perfect.
The award-winning musical with music by Marvin Hamlisch about making it on Broadway featuring the classic songs What I Did for Love, One, and Nothing, are performed by Broadway hop…
A young teacher hopes to be hired as a literature teacher and coach at a private school for boys.
The Glass Menagerie is a hard play to get wrong.
25 years ago a tragedy struck Montreal that brought the city to its knees and shocked the world.
Follow the Heart is a modern dance drama presented by six public amateur dancers from Shanghai Himalayas Museum [M Theatre].
A young man’s life is turned upside down when he discovers he is HIV positive.
Peculiar Spectacles’ Somebody Out There Loves Me is another theatrical examination of the trials and tribulations of online dating.
Frank Sinatra is one of those rare artists that is universally loved and respected by all.
After We Danced depicts a love affair between two people, cut short before unexpectedly rekindling sixty years later, Love in the Time of Cholera-style.
Renny Krupinski’s script is an ambitious one: chronicling the lives of one family across three generations, The Alphabet Girl aims to show the destruction of family values and the …
Fourth Monkey are back with another stellar ensemble piece, providing late night gothic horror - even more frightening, as it is based on a real-life horror story.
You think you know the story of Hansel and Gretel, but can you fully comprehend the suffering that they endured? Poverty, starvation, abandonment, incarceration, murder and insanit…
A bit of role-play never hurt anyone, right? Two maids play a game of murder.
We are invited into the supposedly idyllic lives of an average suburban family, where absolutely nothing is amiss.
I remember hearing Tony Benn speak many years ago, when I was still in school.
The Last Kill follows a Scottish soldier, Michael, falling apart as he tries to find the answers he needs to justify his actions in war.
The Gomaar Trilogy has stylish puppetry and heartfelt sincerity – but its confident aesthetic fails to enliven a tired story of a male artist trying to accommodate his creative i…
Macbeth gets the prequel it never needed in Chiaroscuro’s portrait of the thane as a young warrior.
Reunion, by Neil Smith, is the story of an older couple, George and Jude, recounting their youth together and their love for one another.
Sell-out show in 2014 returns to Edinburgh.
The Carousel, the middle play of The Jennifer Tremblay Trilogy, is a frantic, flashy piece of theatre with a strong performance at the heart of it.
Ostensibly a community play, there can be little doubt that the impact of Letters to Aberlour will be most keenly felt by people from the area in which the play is set, and by thos…
In this tense drama the audience is thrown before a confrontation between former A-grade student Amy and her history teacher Mr Reilly.
Four fairy tales from Europe, reimagined by the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, are brought to life at Greenside by the talented young cast of 1541.
Lungs is a) a remarkable piece of writing by Duncan Macmillan and b) a remarkable show brought to life by director, George Perrin, and actors, Sian Reese-Williams and Abdul Salis.
Roger (Greg Birks) isn’t like other people, and when all the birds start to disappear from outside his flat in Waterloo, he starts to panic.
Consumption is a somewhat-successful commentary on the state of 21st century society, one obsessed with technology, appearances and consumerism, navigated by the central story of S…
Glucose and Dextrose are state-approved killers, unstable and violent.
Set mainly in a London strip club, The Sacred Obscene is a new play following the stories of the women who work there.
When High Court Justice Sir Horace Fewbanks is found dead, Detective Inspector Chippenfield and Detective Sergeant Rolfe are on the case to find the killer.
This ‘pitch black comedy’ revolves around three unlikely friends sat in a room for what we believe is a friendly get together.
No Strings tells the unoriginal tale of two, middle-aged married people hooking up for one night of meaningless, pure sex, with Shona looking to get back at her cheating husband an…
Our costumed guide will take you into our paranormally active and haunted underground vaults dating back to the 1700s.
When I think of an all girls boarding school, I think of discipline, tradition, etiquette, and above all a place where success must exceed expectation.
‘A fast-paced gem of a play about saying goodbye to your nearest and dearest.
Beyond Expectations markets itself as a reworking of the Dickens classic, but this time told from the perspective of the love interest, Estella.
Eddie, Imogen and Lena share a flat.
The Gambit, written by Mark Reid and directed by Matthew Gould, opens to the ticking of a chess stop-clock and, of course, a chess set centre stage.
Bones is an intimate and tragic tale of growing up in a bruised family and having to take responsibility not only for yourself but also for those who who should be caring for you.
Charles Hawtrey was one of the leading lights of the Carry On film franchise, but as his career waned so his behaviour became more drunken and eccentric.
The first play in the Denial Trilogy, three pilgrims visit Auschwitz in the present day.
1822, Scotland eagerly anticipates the state visit by King George IV, especially the widowed Laird of Hawthornden, Sir Robert Drummond.
It’s August 1999 and a group of Bristol teenagers have returned from a trip to Cornwall where they went to see an eclipse.
Ashes Afar follows the story of a migrant couple from different cultures in a volatile relationship.
A new adaptation by Lindel Hart who also plays the Creature, this play looks more closely at the vulnerable and sensitive sides of Frankenstein’s monster.
Box Tale Soup’s latest show, Manalive, is an uplifting, intelligent and emotive triumph.
Four separate but interweaving stories following dispossession and alienation on the fringes of Australian society, providing a profoundly moving portrait of Australian working-cla…
A single mother, a businessman and a 14-year-old girl find themselves trapped together in a mysterious room.
For once, we are given a programme description that is completely accurate and delivers what it promises: ‘a tragicomic thriller about love and accidental murder….
Moon Fly Theatre Company was created this year with the aim of affording opportunities to new and promising writers, actors and directors.
A bare stage, obscured by low lighting and backed by an eerie sinister soundtrack set the tone for this gripping retelling of the classic children’s fairy-tale, but this telling …
Rapunzel is part of Fourth Monkey’s 2015 fairytale season and features their signature physical ensemble work.
Parlour Games is a playful piece of physical theatre inspired by silent films and gothic novels.
When a poem is discovered at a high school describing a shooting. Who wrote it? Will they get the help they need before it is too late, or will this school day end in tragedy?
September 11, 2001, started off like any other day at Stuyvesant High School, located only a few blocks from the World Trade Center.
Tied to a fence, beaten, and left to die in the cold, October night in Laramie, Wyoming, Matthew Shepard lost his fight for life five days after being discovered mutilated in this …
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…
We must be nearly at saturation point with plays and particularly monologues about war veterans.
Using the unique experiences of African American students at the University of Florida, from the first students who attended more than 50 years ago to members of the current studen…
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It is the integration of the oriental opera body movement and Western modern music.
This is a show with an ambitious script, which shows real emotional intelligence.
The legal stage is not unlike the theatrical one.
Hear tales of how the poor and unfortunate lived in terrible slum conditions, and disease and death were commonplace.
The Morton Players’ production of Lear’s Daughters attempts to give an insight into the complex characters of Goneril, Regan and Cordelia from Shakespeare’s King Lear by examinin…
The rhythm of obsession, a journey into mental illness.
A play, a pie and a pint.
In this play, the North/South divide is a reality.
This show invites us to take a look at life in wartime Britain.
As any GCSE maths student will tell you, a prime number is one that has only two factors: one and itself.
Cleansed in the Blood of the Lamb, one can be forgiven of any sin.
You are informally invited to the quarter-life crisis convention; please be aware that firecracker wit, excessive metaphors, discussion of masturbation and mephedrone, fiercely int…
Phone Whore is a show that is equal parts witty, sexually frank and dripping with cynicism.
Lance Corporal James Randall is sitting in a living room strewn with desert sand and an abandoned maroon beret by the television.
Olivier Award nominee Gerard Logan returns with his acclaimed performance of Shakespeare’s breathtaking narrative poem.
As Rita (Judith Paris) carefully sorts through the trunk packed with artefacts from her past, she recounts the tale of her evolving friendship with Angie, her childhood playmate an…
In a field on the outskirts of Glastonbury sit Joel and Dave, recent university graduates, taking any work they can find.
Two Sore Legs is an affecting testament to the fierceness of a mother’s love and the determination of one woman in the face of oppressive societal expectations.
Divided by their differences, two men are united by one similarity: they both have the nasty habit of standing on landmines.
The Human Ear is a production that is crafted with all the beautiful complexity of the appendage to which its title refers.
In a world where debt, identity crisis and prejudice are factors towards the term ‘Broken Britain’, it is more difficult than ever for young people to succeed.
Meet Pramkicker.
This is a haunting and powerful solo show that lingers with you long after leaving the theatre, sticking closely to Oscar Wilde’s signature style: simultaneously intellectual and…
Nick Payne’s bittersweet love story One Day When We Were Young charts Leonard and Violet’s tangled relationship across five decades of love and longing.
Wojtek was an extraordinary bear, and this play that tells his story is an equally extraordinary piece of theatre.
This heart-wrenching play by award-winning Irish/American playwright Noel O’Neill explores the lives of two sisters, Holly (Catriona M Coe) and Ivy (Sandra Sando), brought back tog…
Bob Monkhouse was a complicated and enigmatic man.
Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray is a tale ingrained in our cultural consciousness.
The Unknown Soldier finds an interesting perspective on the lives of men who fought in the First World War.
Movement, mask, and music are used to weave a new work of folklore, telling the tale of The Mortal’s quest to recover her love whom was stolen by Langwidere, a mysterious woman wit…
It’s a deceptively simple bag of ingredients that Jim Cartwright lists in the script for his new play Raz, which has had its premiere at this year’s Festival Fringe.
One of several pieces of modern American writing brought to the Fringe by Phantom Owl Productions, Neil Labute’s 1989 play Filthy Talk for Troubled Times takes a frank look at ge…
Philip Ridley is often shocking, constantly provocative, and always thought-provoking.
The boy who went up the mountain was very different to the man who came back.
A young girl is forced into marrying a powerful but mysterious woman.
There’s nothing complicated about The Ghost of Sadie Kimber - and there doesn’t need to be.
In her khaki jumpsuit and ponytail, writer-actor Rebecca Crookshank looks like a cute suburban 30-something.
Mirza Hadi Ruswa’s 1899 classic novel, Umrao Jaan Ada, is brought to life in a new English language adaptation with live music.
If you could eradicate the world of pain, what would be your price? A newly written comedy drama set in 1860s Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
When the sun is shining on a windowed room, it can be hard to tell if the lights are on inside.
For some of us among ‘the olds,’ the Beatles provided the lush soundtrack of our lives.
In this fun one-woman show, a self-described bi-dyke shares with us stories of her sexual evolution, from Mormon adolescent scanning second-hand books for smut, to monogamous domes…
Attempting to answer the question posed in the second part – The Carousel – of whether The Woman had a ‘happy childhood’ or not, The Deliverance provides the conclusion t…
We all make lists: to do lists, shopping lists, present lists… They are one of the best ways of keeping on top of one’s life and making sure that nothing is forgotten.
It’s less than a year to go until TV screens will be fixed on the Olympics and Paralympics in Rio.
Act One’s Things Can Only Get Bitter takes its name (with a slight twist) from the now infamous campaign song used by New Labour in the 1997 election campaign.
Ross & Rachel is an exploration of beyond ‘happily ever after’, using the two Friends characters we all know so well as a medium through which to explore the artifice of relati…
Do we choose the journeys we make or do the journeys choose us? A one-woman bittersweet comedy told through 80s tunes, old tapes, childhood memories and cake and tea.
Jewish mother of three, Rivki has a secret - Freddie Mercury is her hero.
Susie is desperate to get married.
Daniel Sinclair is a grim comedy about two friends lying at the bottom of the cracks in society.
Galileo lived in age when the church reigned supreme, faith was more important than fact and dogma denied discovery.
Conceived and performed by stage magician Janne Raudaskoski, The Outsider is a spectacular piece of theatre illusion.
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing is definitely not an easy watch, though ‘listen’ might be a better description, as Aoife Duffin delivers a highly unsettling stream-of-consciousne…
The ever-prevalent story of the individual being caught up in, or fighting against, the machine of society – not always nobly – is told with skill and beauty by the three actor…
Job losses, painful break ups and junk food - set to music! Get Your Shit Together is the perfect pick me up for 20-somethings in a similar situation, or just a nice dose of Schade…
Tricorn Improv! Have you ever had an amazing or wonderful idea for theatre but you couldn’t quite put to it to paper? Well then maybe it is now time to try it out on stage! Trico…
A lingerie party is arranged with a group of women from different walks of life.
It wouldn’t be the Edinburgh Fringe without multiple adaptations of Hamlet all vying to make their mark, but this production by the English Repertory Theatre, directed and adapte…
Franz Kafka’s short story A Report to an Academy takes the form of an informative lecture given by an ape called Red Peter.
A man who’s recently had a heart transplant thinks that his new heart is talking to him.
With current situation in Calais, the rise of UKIP, depressing rhetoric used by politicians to describe migrants, this play could not be staged at a more fitting time.
Hidden up at Basic Mountain, this piece from acclaimed playwright Stephen Belber is real all-American treat.
Attempts on Her Life has a notoriety surrounding it that most shows would kill for.
The Soaking of Vera Shrimp may seem at first like a fairly quirky premise.
Strikingly staged, deftly acted and simultaneously hard-hitting and bitingly funny.
Dave Florez’s new play Angel in the Abattoir questions the role and even the possibility of the modern hero.
An unassuming teenager, Donny Stixx, tries to keep his calm as he meets fans for a televised Q&A, just like he’s always dreamed.
Pantomime is not just for Christmas, according to Òran Mór, whose take on the genre is a wonderfully satirical look at the corridors of power.
Combining the intensity of a psychological thriller with the power of a theatrical poem is an intriguing notion, but CUT proves its effectiveness as the two come together in this e…
In this rendition of an all time favourite, in-yer-face piece of theatre, the King’s Head Theatre, London presents Trainspotting, a gritty Scottish drama that isn’t afraid to sta…
Oh What A Lovely War (musical), Oh Calcutta (nude theatre) – but what is Oh Gumtree? The title says nothing of the play behind the poster really but deserves further investigatio…
In posh Manhattan restaurant-ese, the phrase “fully committed” means “really, really full for the next two months, so don’t even try for a table.
An atmospheric new musical about witchcraft, betrayal and friendship, Witch is a journey into dark magic, spanning across generations.
Mistaken presents four short monologues, written and directed by Nick Myles and performed by William McGeough.
Cleansed is classic Sarah Kane: disturbing, difficult, packed with violence and potentially quite profound.
With England on the brink of collapse, the government have identified the enemy undermining the very fabric of society: the red fox.
Jason Robert Brown’s musical The Last Five Years is not an easy undertaking.
The Rattlesnake’s Kiss, part of Jethro Compton’s Frontier Trilogy, is an all-round masterclass in what theatre at the Fringe can be.
Graeae Theatre Company, according to the information sheet handed out before the start of the show, sees itself as ‘a force for change in world-class theatre – breaking down ba…
Spillikin, expertly directed and written by Jon Welch, follows two periods in the life of Sally, a charming and rebellious woman who married her unlikely childhood companion, the c…
Two women on a stage: one in a black gown, one in a white gown; a modern day schoolgirl jihadi and a Victorian intellectual.
A solo show is a delicate thing.
At the Break of Dawn is a show brimming with big ideas and questions all jostling together for space; but whilst the concept itself is impressive, the execution falls short of its …
Trying to recreate the British music festival environment in a small Edinburgh theatre cannot be easy, but Signature Picture’s Festivus gives it a damn good go.
I wasn’t supposed to be reviewing this show, but on a friend’s recommendation (“three Korean ladies doing Chekhov.
Jethro Compton, formerly the driving force behind Belt Up Theatre, has certainly earned his household name at the Fringe, bringing shows of consistent quality for years - notably w…
There is a room in C Nova that you have never seen before: up endless winding staircases and through many closed doors, a small attic store has been meticulously transformed into t…
Prestwick, Scotland – 3 March 1960.
Celebrated children’s author Edith Nesbit retreats to her attic writing room to escape her husband’s annual Christmas party.
The four filthy tramps in The Titanic Orchestra are waiting in vain for a train, not Godot, in a play by Bulgarian playwright Hristo Boytchev, who tries and fails to emulate Samuel…
Returning to AR Fringe after a 2014 sell-out, sold out off-Broadway, and front page of ThreeWeeks.
Jeffrey Holland (Hi-de-Hi, You Rang M’Lord) returns in his sell-out one-man show about friendship, memories and a couple of remarkable lives.
The events reflected in Dawn State Theatre Company’s The Wonderful Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster happened in 1612, roughly 80 years before the Salem witch trial…
Rose’s earliest memory is a ruined birthday party at the age of eighteen.
A crucifix, a menorah, the smell of incense.
“Good girls should be seen and not heard”.
The Small Things Theatre Company’s The Stolen Inches brilliantly puts family relationships under a microscope.
Like all great people (Whitney Houston, the Romans) Harry loves a bath.
To do justice to any of Sarah Kane’s work, you need to not be taken in by the maniacal, despairing nature of her scripts.
Hypnotist Theatre have a story they wish to yell at you, loudly, while writhing in semi-darkness so we cannot actually see whose story it is.
There’s a whole lot going on in Derby Day.
There’s a huge difference between comedy and black comedy that seems to have eluded the Lincoln Company in their production of Joe Ortons’s Loot.
A reflection of war through 100 years: from World War One through to the modern day.
Set in the Spanish war, The Night Watch is a gripping period drama.
Brought to the fringe by multi-talented Jethro Compton, The Clock Strikes Noon (along with the rest of the Frontier trilogy) is not to be missed.
Those headlines are everywhere these days: “You won’t believe what happens next,” “#8 will blow your mind,” “This video is everything”.
Holly has watched the world slowly fall apart since the summer of 2012.
Filtered through the consciousness of the bright eyed and burnt out Jeannie, Victoria Rigby’s new play explores all that was best and worst about the sixties.
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…
You can find the characters Taylor and Aalia in every comprehensive school in the country.
Lottie Finklaire’s new play A+E tells the story of three women waiting in the hospital to find out if their friend will ever wake from her coma.
Alan Cox is Harry Houdini and Phill Jupitus is Arthur Conan Doyle in a play exploring a belief in the spiritual and the reasons that can lead you to believe in something which nobo…
Acclaimed Australian theatre company My Darling Patricia’s immersive retelling of The Pied Piper of Hamelin is a unique theatrical journey.
Manfred Karge’s Man to Man is described as a modern fairy tale that follows the life of Ella, a woman who disguises herself as her dead husband in order to survive under Nazi …
From the title, Gruesome Playground Injuries sounds like grim viewing.
What I remember most strongly from Richard Parker, a 2011 dark comedy from playwright Owen Thomas, was the heat.
In keeping with its history, this latest production of La Ronde by Zebronkeyis controversial.
As roommates, young London singletons Zoe and Ruth are as mismatched as Peep Show’s Mark and Jeremy.
Playwright Jez Butterworth is best known for his Royal Court/West End triumph, Jerusalem, a quasi-supernatural piece swamped in mystery - for his latest play, The River, Butterwort…
Disorder is a play about mental illness that attempts to portray the realities of living with bipolar disorder, as well as the long term effects of the condition, not only on the s…
Dare you visit the world’s most haunted and paranormally active location? Once used by Hellfire clubs, witches, bodysnatchers, prostitutes, criminals, plague victims and frequented…
In 2015, using actors who haven’t seen the script for a piece of theatre isn’t too much of a selling point: there are always multiple shows at the Fringe which do so.
This tour takes you to Edinburgh Old Town’s two most bone-chilling locations.
A bone chilling tour as our costumed guide takes you around some of the Old Town’s cobbled streets dispensing the history of the dark characters that used to roam them and why thei…
The team behind the Fringe First winning Grounded (2013) are back with a powerfully human tragedy – one that grapples with issues of belief clearly and concisely, without recours…
Adapted from a Russian folk tale, this outdoor promenade production, with singalong music and audience participation for children of all ages, tells the eternal story of of how goo…
As an appetizer, we first of all take you around some of the old town’s cobbled streets giving you some very dark historical facts about some of the infamous characters that used t…
Great theatre often takes deeply personal experiences and weaves them together into stories and sequences that tap into a universality and profundity that the experiences alone wou…
Boundaries is an original play that follows two women, sister wives, in a fundamentalist polygamist marriage.
The stage is strewn with detritus, traces of lives lived on the margin.