Edinburgh Fringe

The biggest arts festival in the world.

In 1981, Arthur Scargill was elected as President of the National Union of Mineworkers and this play, the…
‘Sweet Talking Guy’ wins around audience on debut night!
This is a real treat of song and dance from two dozen boys and girls aged between 8 and 12 from villages in…
A feminine mirrored mosaic for our time.
The sound of trumpets that you’d hear in a cartoon and fabulous filmic music, along with a convincing Charlie…
Jayson Gilham was born in Queensland in Australia and initially studied at the Queensland Conservatorium…
A wordless dreamlike tribute to love and loss.
Improvisational comedy can be a very hit and miss affair. The ability to create and follow a train of…
How do people with an acute ‘green’ conscience square the circle of whether or not to add to the world’s…
If you’ve ever played dominoes, you’ll know that while the first number has to match with the next, the last…
The problem with staging Macbeth as light children’s fare: it’s not really a comedy, is it?
Our Share of Tomorrow is more of a journey than a story, charting the lives of three people as they come to…
With a bouncy nervous energy and a self-deprecating delivery, the large frame of Greg Davies bounds on stage…
This show was something of a disappointment. Aimed at illustrating how humans relate to the habitat and…
Immortalised by a franchise whose comedy is an iconic staple of British culture, the life and strife of the…
This is a story, told through books. How we read and experience books, how they shape the chapters of our…
This Great British Soap Opera deserves to win the ratings war! A cliché? Well, take a failing soap opera…
Breakfast plays at the Traverse this year feature six international writers who were commissioned to write a…
“I, I can remember Standing by the wall And the guns shot above our heads And we kissed, as though nothing…
The sumptuous Ballroom of the Assembly Rooms with its extravagant chandeliers may seem like an incongruous…