Theatre

Theatre at the <a href="/events/edinburghfringe">Edinburgh Fringe</a> and <a href="/events/eif">Edinburgh International Festival</a>.

If, like me, you are an admirer of the art form that is the ā€˜One Man show’, you will find few sharper than…
Vanishing Point’s productions are always different, from each other, as well as from your usual theatrical…
The Alchemist Theatre Company sets out to liberate the audience from whatever it is they feel trapped by, be…
Schizophrenia, a largely misunderstood mental illness often mistaken for split personality disorder, affects…
The problem with staging Macbeth as light children’s fare: it’s not really a comedy, is it?
ā€œSamuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouthā€.
It seems a mad prospect to bring an adaptation of the classic Powell and Pressburger film to the stage.…
The action opens with the sound of frantically galloping hoofs. Four backpackers wander on rather aimlessly.…
As we celebrate the birth one hundred years ago of Benjamin Britten it was good to get an insight into his…
Philip Ziegler is a well known biographer and historian with some twenty four books to his name, including…
ā€œIf I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if…
It seems to me that the best horrors have a recognisable sense of reality. The world is as real as the one…
We are shut in a basement, seemingly unaccompanied by an actor, when out of the darkness comes an uncertain…
This is the story of Robert Johnson’s experience of working as a guide at Dachau, the Nazi concentration camp…
Chicago. 1943. Gangland. The city is still ruled by fear and terror and there is only one honest cop left.
We are lined up by a bossy drill instructor in the Nissen hut like venue. This is one of the characters who…
A beautiful, sunny August morning (rare for any Edinburgh Festival goer), a cup of coffee, fresh strawberries…
This piece of work is a reflection of the works of Shakespeare in the lives and experiences of young people.
ā€˜The Sorrows of Young Werther,’ as it is known in English, made the reputation of Goethe, establishing him as…
In the aptly named Beneath studio theatre downstairs at Pleasance Courtyard, a few rows of seats are placed…