Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Wild: The EIF's Rhinoceros is a thoroughly contemporary take on a modern classic, combining knockabout comedy with a deep consideration of human society.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMDirector Michael Colgan has Barry McGovern take his Krapp at a luxurious pace, in a production which is at once playful and
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Zinnie Harris is somewhat ubiquitous at this year’s Edinburgh International Festival, updating Ionesco, retelling Aeschylus and here, with Meet Me at Dawn,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:44PMMark-Anthony Turnage’s opera adaptation of Steven Berkoff’s Greek, a tale of joyfully racist cockneys and the rotting underbelly of the collapsing English
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:51AMPlaywright Jo Clifford has a 90-strong body of work. For her 91st script, written with Chris Goode, and her second self-delivered one-woman
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:27AMBrilliant children's theatre: Brave Macbeth from Captivate Theatre at Gilded Ballon venues is everything a children's musical should be - and educational too.
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Playwright Nassim Soleimanpour made an international name for himself by sending his plays around the world in his own stead, when he
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:01PMWarmly fierce: There is a deep humanity to Eve, at the Traverse, that makes it both challenging and reassuring, giving it an ultimate message of hope.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSaturday, August 5, 2017
When Jihan lost her smile, her town lost its colour, the sun stopped shining and everyone became sad. In his attempts to protect her, her father
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMHidden away in a private room, up under the eaves of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, Scott Silven’s At the Illusionist’s Table is a
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Bursting out with song and powerful monologues that reflect the experiences of the seven-strong ensemble cast, The Fall tells of events at
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In the second of his exclusive features for Æ, Bruce Cannon turns to the birth (and growth) of the fringe – and how it effected his own career.
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With three shows playing at the EIF it is a busy month for playwright Zinnie Harris. She tells Thom Dibdin about modernising
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In the first of two special features exclusive to Æ, Bruce Cannon remembers the beginnings of the Edinburgh Festival and fringe.
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An employee of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society who embezzled more than £220,000 has been named as former financial manager Lynn Taylor.
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Visa issues have forced the cancellation of a production in the first showcase of Arab theatre and dance at the Edinburgh Fringe,
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Capturing much of the whimsy and regret of David Greig’s 1999 play for young people, the younger of the Lyceum’s Summer on Stage companies make a descent fist of Danny 306 + Me 4eva. Mor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe show opens with the students auditioning to get into PA, the city’s High School of Performing Arts, but this production has a Scottish twist as one of the students is playing the bagpi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, July 19, 2017
Underbelly has announced its main programme and creative team for its first year in charge of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay festival. The live entertainment company took
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33AMRachel Tucker is to play a solo show in Scotland for the first time, with two dates at the Pleasance during the Edinburgh
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A new award for the best female solo performance by an emerging artist at the Edinburgh Fringe has been announced by Gilded Balloon. The
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Explosive and full of energy, Edinburgh based youth company Shoogly Peg bring the house down at the King’s with rock’n’roll musical American Idiot.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, July 3, 2017
The young company is packed with enough talent to have two casts for some of the key roles not to mention a chorus which brings the cast on stage up to 24. And, when the acoustic of St Steph…
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For a production which lasts just over an hour, Roberts has dropped all the characters in Theseus and Hippolyta’s court – and concentrated on the essential mix of the four miss-matched l…
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Opening up the scope of the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s retrospective on noted Scottish polymath Tom McGrath, the staged script reading of his 1977 play The Hard Man sits perfe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, June 26, 2017
The website which proposed a controversial pay-for-review scheme for productions on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has postponed its plans. The edfringereviews.com site
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PMA new award recognising the show that most successfully explores the subject of mental health has been launched for the 2017 Edinburgh
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The Edinburgh International Festival will open its 70th-anniversary year with a major public event in Edinburgh’s St Andrew Square. Bloom will be
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The theatre element of the Edinburgh International Film Festival got off to a cracking start on Thursday, with This Story of Yours the first of three one-off rehearsed script readings in Tra…
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There’s bundles of fun and bonkers B-movie mayhem in Little Shop of Horrors, the debut musical from TBC Productions, which is at the Studio on Potterrow to Saturday. Adapted from a Roger C…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMiller’s 1949 depiction of the ageing, failing salesman Willy Loman as he struggles to comes to terms with the death of his dreams – and perhaps of The American Dream itself – has only…
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