Theatre

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

It wasn’t until my late teens that I finally got around to reading Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s tale…
The Battle of Pots and Pans is based on a battle that took place in l745 in the southeastern Scottish town of…
Emerging from a barrage of bombs and bangs, a group of (absurdly large) children survey the ruins of their…
Three very different chairs stand in the performance space of Traverse Two, waiting to be occupied by three…
It’s a good thing the title specifies ā€˜abridged’ – as we are told almost immediately, the ā€˜original’ script…
With nothing more than a stark stage and the irresistible strains of the accordion playing a carousel version…
There are some things that you can rely on with the Edinburgh Tattoo: marching bands, fireworks and big bangs…
Justin Butcher’s tale of Scaramouche Jones is one hell of a story and he tells it masterfully.
Dreams, wishes, rivalries and death. The students of Mulberry School make a third appearance on the Edinburgh…
An intense sulphuric light emanates from this one-man show by Florentine actor Maurizio Lombardi. It was…
Jade Byrne has had a lot of pricks in her life. Over 70,000 to be more precise.
Katy is going to tell us a story. Stories are important to Katy, as are rules.
There is nothing I hate more in this world than people that do nothing other than speak of themselves.
This show, from Retford based professional touring theatre company TaleGate Theatre, is as ambitious as it is…
Something special happens when visual artists take to the stage.
The American dancer Isadora Duncan is perhaps remembered for her tragic early death aged 50 in 1927 in a…
We are lined up by a bossy drill instructor in the Nissen hut like venue. This is one of the characters who…
Bryony Kimmings and Tim Grayburn are, and are not, a perfectly ordinary couple.
Waiting in a rain pelted marquee with technicians setting up lighting, front of house staff bustling around…
I remember reading David Mamet's Oleanna many, many years ago. Specific memories of it are sketchy at best,…