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Laurie Black: Deadly Synths
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 12th - 19th Aug 2025
What are synths? Where did they come from? And why are they synonymous with cats in space? Laurie’s got answers.
Sweeney Todd
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 12th - 24th Aug 2025
Captivate Theatre is thrilled to bring Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd to the Edinburgh Fringe: a show that extends the stage to the audiences and draws them into its storytelling in a w…
Niki King
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 11th - 18th Aug 2025
‘King is the outstanding Scottish female vocalist of our times’ **** (List).
Christine Bovill: Piaf Revisited
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 5th - 19th Aug 2025
The Paris icon and the Glasgow girl.
Les Misérables (School Edition)
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 1st - 10th Aug 2025
Performed entirely by very talented students, Captivate’s production has been seen by an estimated 22,000 people, with sell-out crowds, standing ovations and multiple five-star r…
La Clique
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 30th Jul - 24th Aug 2025
Leave your troubles at the doors of The Famous Spiegeltent and step into Edinburgh’s own mélange of cabaret and circus, the international Olivier Award-winning sensation, La Cliqu…
Bugsy Malone
- Review
- ★★★★
- Pete Shaw
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 10th Aug, 2016
There are plenty of musicals that have versions suitable for younger companies, but Alan Parker’s Bugsy Malone is possibly unique in that it’s a piece that only really works if…
Oliver!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 7th Aug, 2016
The Spiegeltent is a far cry from the workhouse and rarely can a setting have been better used than in this stunning production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! by Captivate Theatre.
Late Night Phantasmagoria With Jack Lukeman
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 19th Aug, 2015
The moment Jack Lukeman enters the stage, it’s clear this is going to be a fantastic show.
The Black Sorrows
- Review
- ★★★
- Lydia Nowak
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 13th Aug, 2015
Old-time blues rockers The Black Sorrows have been playing since the early 80s – plenty of time for them to tighten up on chords, learn the rhythm and throw in some obligatory cl…
Shakespeare in the Garden: Cheer Up, Hamlet
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emily Blackwell
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 23rd Aug, 2015
It can be hard for a children’s show to be entertaining for both adults and children simultaneously, but Captivate Theatre’s latest addition to their Shakespeare series is effo…
Christine Bovill’s Piaf
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 28th Aug, 2015
Christine Bovill has returned to the Fringe once again to grace us with her incredibly heartfelt renditions of some of Piaf’s greatest songs, on the centenary of the icon’s bir…
Les Misérables (School Edition)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Frodo Allan
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 13th Aug, 2015
Les Misérables is a musical based on the 1862 French novel by Victor Hugo that tells the tale of an ex convict who flees his parole, meets a generous priest, becomes mayor of a to…
Sunshine on Leith
- Review
- ★★★★
- Stuart Mckenzie
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 27th Aug, 2015
Of course there would have to be a torrential downpour on the day I viewed Sunshine on Leith, sadly only adhering to the typical fickleness of Scottish weather that betrayed the na…
La Clique and The Famous Spiegeltent presents VELVET
- Review
- ★★★★
- Frodo Allan
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 17th Aug, 2015
La Clique has been a feature on the Fringe for over ten years and has a well deserved reputation for slick circus cabaret and variety.
Bob Downe: Bob, Sweat and Tears
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 23rd Aug, 2014
He claims he’s now been knighted as Sir Robert Downe (you can call him Count Downe, geddit?) but that isn’t the only outlandish claim made at this fabulous frolic of a cabar…
The Bevvy Sisters
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Alice Quine
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 13th Aug, 2014
Scotland-based four-piece group The Bevvy Sisters (not all sisters, or even all women) enthrall and amaze as they bring us their unique stamp on Americana classics and their own so…
Mary Coughlan
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Sue Bevan
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 8th Aug, 2014
This is the best I’ve seen and heard of the great Irish jazz and blues singer.
One Man Breaking Bad
- Review
- ★★★★
- Milo Boyd
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 16th Aug, 2014
One Man Breaking Bad is impressionist Miles Allen’s attempt to squeeze 60 Breaking Bad episodes into 60 minutes.
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