Archive for January, 2014
Bedlam Festival returns
Edinburgh’s student performers mark their worth this week, with the return of the Bedlam Festival – the annual celebration performance and education in the dramatic arts.
Wiemer cabaret comes to Summerhall
Bursting into the new year, Edinburgh’s fringe companies are making their mark this week with a sensual, politically-charged production which makes direct comparisons between the rise of the NSP in 1930s Germany and Europe today.
A Satire of the Three Estates in 500 Tweets
Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, Sir David Lyndsay’s satirical morality play first performed in 1540, is being tweeted by Staging the Scottish Court.
Four Steps Back open auditions
New writing company Four Steps Back is holding open auditions this week for a quartet of short plays to be performed at Summerhall at the end of February.
War Horse sells £2M in tickets as run sells out
War Horse, the National Theatre smash hit, has officially sold out its 31 performances at the Festival Theatre Edinburgh.
New Festival and King’s shows on sale
Tickets have gone on sale for 16 new shows at Edinburgh’s Festival and King’s theatres, including major touring musicals such as Top Hat and Avenue Q, two Chekhov adaptations by John Byrne, and the ever-popular Edinburgh Gang Show.
New Year, new Wordly Wisdom
New words and new wisdom from poet J. A. Sutherland with a Wordly Wise column inspired by last week’s Accelerator at the The Canons’ Gait.
War Horse tickets almost sold out
Tickets for the National Theatre’s production of War Horse, which arrives at the Festival Theatre on January 22, have almost sold out
Rantin Summerhall tix on sale
Tickets have gone on sale today (January 10) for Kieran Hurley’s Rantin, a co-production with the NTS, which plays Summerhall on February 6.
