Shows at Gladstone's Land

...It's Not My Problem!

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Gladstone’s Land
4th - 25th Aug 2025

Comedy and songs from hit shows and other places: Sebastien, who has severe learning difficulties, spent the first week of his life fighting for his life at Great Ormond Street Hos…

ScotlandsFest: We Are Scottish Football – Julie McNeill

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Gladstone’s Land
22nd - 23rd Aug 2024

Did football originate in Scotland? Does Argentina owe it all to the Gorbals? Was the first floodlight a searchlight? Did Scotland really ban women? Follow the Spiders, count the H…

ScotlandsFest: The Queen’s Bahookie, and Other Tales From Scotland’s Castles – Robin Laing

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Gladstone’s Land
20th Aug 2024

Who saw the Queen’s Bahookie? Which castle had an annual rent of one red rose? Which maiden was most feared by Scottish aristocrats? Which job is worse – turnbrochie or pigeon-…

ScotlandsFest: The History of Art in 100 Limericks – Angus Reid

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Gladstone’s Land
19th - 23rd Aug 2024

There’s a room in the Tate where the goths go/ And solitary men of the cloth know/ That there they can tune/ Into black on maroon/ And swoon in the gloom of a Rothko.

ScotlandsFest: The Places We Inhabit – Bashabi Fraser

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Gladstone’s Land
13th Aug 2024

People, locations, nature – Bashabi Fraser deftly challenges conventions in her poetry, weaving her dual cultural experiences into a tapestry of interconnectedness.

ScotlandsFest: Edinburgh, Our Storied Town – Donald Smith

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Gladstone’s Land
12th - 16th Aug 2024

From David Hume to Robert Burns, Blind Harry to Muriel Spark, James Boswell to Margaret Oliphant, meet the congenial ghosts of famous Edinburgh writers at their fireside, and hear …

ScotlandsFest: If You Don’t Run, They Can’t Chase You – Neil Findlay

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Gladstone’s Land
12th Aug 2024

From Hillsborough to Grenfell, the Anti-Apartheid Movement to the Miners’ Strike, hear the inspiring tales of 30 years of social justice campaigns.

ScotlandsFest: Dog Turd or Walnut Whip? Making Sense of Edinburgh’s Architecture – Roger Emmerson

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Gladstone’s Land
7th - 14th Aug 2024

From the grandeur of the New Town to the photogenic allure of the Royal Mile to the delights of Leith, what makes Edinburgh so special? Join Roger Emmerson, author of Land of Stone…

ScotlandsFest: Edinburgh Witch or Just a B*tch? – Mary Craig

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Gladstone’s Land
6th - 9th Aug 2024

Unravel the curious case of Agnes Finnie, a mid-17th century shopkeeper in Edinburgh’s Potterrow accused of witchcraft.

Dissent

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Gladstone’s Land
6th - 6th Aug 2024

Born from an experimental class series in narradrama, a dramatherapy modality, this half-autobiographical therapeutic performance, half D&D fairytale adventure follows Satya, a…