Theatre at the <a href="/events/edinburghfringe">Edinburgh Fringe</a> and <a href="/events/eif">Edinburgh International Festival</a>.
Theatre
Iain Heggie looks chipper if not dapper as he takes the stage for an hour’s worth of racontuering.
Civil Rogues is a good, old-fashioned, rollicking romp and, although it follows a rather familiar formula, a…
Entering through the audience, dressed for a sunny day in the park, the cast of A Simple Space began playing…
Yasmin is a smart cookie and has always had a way with words. She is also an angry young woman.
Summerhall’s Demonstration Room, an old Dick Vet lecture theatre, is the suitably strange setting for Clout…
This is a story, told through books. How we read and experience books, how they shape the chapters of our…
Every journey has a beginning and every family has a past. In each there are forgotten chapters.
Welcome to Reykjavik, or as the sign at the airport reads “Velkomin Heim” (Welcome Home). It’s a city which…
"Am I still so evil after so long?", asks Rudolf Hess, the solitary last inmate of Spandau prison.
We are here to play a sort of game, there is no right or wrong, no win or lose, just the opportunity to…
Currently dominating the advertising for the EIF, Alan Ayckbourn’s new play The Divide, in two parts, can…
Not much of a joker, was he, that George Orwell?
You have to spare a thought for poor old Chekhov. There he is, a writer who created a whole genre that…
The Edinburgh Festival is the largest arts festival in the world. Every year the number of shows goes up and…
As titles go this takes the cake. (It’s a mathematics mnemonic.) We are in American high school territory.
Two women talk in semi-darkness in whispered tones.
One of the great joys of the Fringe are the unexpected surprises occasionally thrown in the way of…
Chris Goode is no stranger to the Edinburgh Fringe and has picked up more than his share of Fringe First…
“Foolish man! Foolish foolish man! What I could have said was...What I should have said was...Why didn’t I…
In Sachsenhausen concentration camp an elderly Jewish Berlin watchmaker (Benjamin) and a flamboyant German…