Tag: Edinburgh theatre
Pride Plays : Scotland’s first LGBT+ playwright festival
Scotland’s first ever LGBT+ playwright festival, Pride Plays, will take place this week, at The Traverse Theatre.
Pride Plays, which launches alongside new theatre company, Shift, are 3 evenings of originally written plays by LGBTQI+...
ANATOMY’s Finest Cuts at the Traverse this week
ANATOMY is an arts producer based at Summerhall. After five years of producing some very diverse work they will showcase the best later this week on 10 and 11 May 2018 at the Traverse...
Theatre – The Belles Stratagem, The Lyceum
The Belles Stratagem
by Hannah Cowley
adapted and directed by Tony Cownie
15 February 2018 to 10 March 2018
"Vanity, like murder, will out."
A witty riposte to Farquhar’s The Beaux Stratagem, Hannah Cowley’s rediscovered gem turns the tables...
At the Traverse – Locker Room Talk
In response to some of the Trump rhetoric during the US election campaign, Gary McNair is writing a show which will feature honest conversations with men about women.
The writers now needs your help with...
Theatre PREVIEW – Lysistrata No Sex In The City/Acropolis Row!
The Edinburgh Reporter has been keeping a canny eye on these thespian tyro upstarts who embrace this radical adaptation of the ancient Greek comedy about women on a sex strike during the Peloponnesian Wars...
REVIEW – The Iliad – A Kingdom For A Gift Horse
“… There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible – magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
For a long ten years the Greeks assail the impregnable...
Review : The Crucible Royal Lyceum Theatre
Will America buy in to Donald Trump's vision of a God-fearing New Jerusalem? (Terms & Conditions apply).
Was the Holy Father's perceived interference in the Democratic process, albeit the American variety, ill-judged?
'If you don't know...