Drama

It is 1959. The prison is Huntsville, Texas. Elyese Dukie (Lucy Roslyn) is on death row for the murder of two…
Three theatrical trunks of a certain age dominate the space, from behind which Sian Williams emerges in quasi…
St Jude, the patron saint of lost causes, gives his name to the grubby fictional Tube station that’s the well…
The Investigation’s writer Peter Weiss, was born in Germany in 1916. In 1934 he and his family were forced to…
The play opens with Alex, a tutor in creative writing, giving his last lecture of the term. He tells one of…
In the 1930’s George Orwell shed his privileged background and stayed in Paris, scratching out a living…
The last witch burning in Scotland in the early 18th century, enacted at this year's Edinburgh International…
Walden is an account of an ā€˜experiment in simple living' that was carried out and documented by Henry David…
We're caught in a trap I can't walk out Because I love you too much, baby
The true story of a long lost silent movie version of The Great Gatsby, adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s…
The notion of pursuing Fleance, the son of Banquo, off the stage and out of Shakespeare’s ā€˜Macbeth’ is an…
Jimmy makes a panicked phone call – ā€œKitty, my hands have disappearedā€.
This is the story of four people. So announces a computerised female voice as the spotlit heads of the cast…
The plush, comfortably seated Red Theatre of Summerhall, the smart new arts and Fringe venue that was the…
This is a sequel to Silence in Court, the smash hit, sell out Fringe show since 2011.
When you cross the International Dateline a complete day disappears; lost, not here today and it’s already…
As titles go this takes the cake. (It’s a mathematics mnemonic.) We are in American high school territory.
Tailors have had a tendency to be men, but it is generally women who do the sewing at home; the making and…
Orville and Wilbur Wright stand like two overgrown schoolboys, sending paper aeroplanes out over the heads of…
Perhaps the audience members filing into the Assembly Rooms felt they were going to be treated unjustly.