Amateur Company Listings

Upcoming productions from Edinburgh’s amateur companies.

Click on the name of the show or the Book here link to go to its ticketing site.

April 2025

Tue 29 Apr – Fri 2 May 2025
Incognito (EGTG)
Assembly Roxy, 2 Roxburgh Place, EH8 9SU.
Evenings: 7.30pm (Upstairs).
1955, the USA: Thomas performs the autopsy of Albert Einstein. 1953, England: Henry undergoes life-changing brain surgery. Present day London: clinical neuropsychologist Martha, starts to make radically different choices after the collapse of her marriage. Three interwoven stories explore what it means to be human. Book here.

Tue 29 Apr – Sat 3 May 2025
Go Back For Murder (ETA)
St Ninian’s Church Hall, 40 Comely Bank, EH4 1AG.
Weekdays: 7.30pm; Sat: 1pm, 6pm.
After receiving a letter from beyond the grave, Carla Crale believes her mother, who died in prison, was wrongly convicted of her father’s murder. In an attempt to clear her name, she persuades those present on the day of her father’s death to return to the scene of the crime to recount their version of events. By Agatha Christie. Book here.

Tue 29 Apr – Sun 4 May 2025
Jellyfish (Filfbag & EUTC )
Bedlam Theatre, 11B Bristo Place, EH1 1EZ.
Evenings: 7.30pm.
Absurdist one-act comedy sees an anthropomorphic, destructive, surprisingly stylish Jellyfish-person descend into the square lives of stagnating married couple Smiff and Willow. Daily routines are disrupted, bickering starts and their sweet, crocheted, boxy, IKEA world begins to crumble. Book here.

May 2025

Wed 7 – Sat 10 May 2025
Jesus Christ Superstar (Southern Light)
Festival Theatre, 13/29 Nicolson Street EH8 9FT.
Evenings: 7.30pm; Mats, Sat: 2.30pm.
What’s the buzz? The first musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice to be produced for the professional stage, Jesus Christ Superstar has wowed audiences for over 40 years. A timeless work, the rock opera is set against the backdrop of an extraordinary and universally known series of events, but seen through the eyes of Judas Iscariot. Book here.

Thurs 8 – Sat 10 May 2025
Bedroom Farce (Edinburgh Makars)
Church Hill Theatre, 33 Morningside Road, EH10 4DR.
Evenings: 7.30pm; Sat mat: 2.30pm.
A highly-strung couple wreak havoc in the bedrooms of three other couples during a single night, in Allan Ayckbourn’s play. While Ayckbourn prefers not to label his plays, this is comedy territory and certainly not farce. Book here.

Wed 14 – Sat 17 May 2025
Accidental Death of An Anarchist (Arkle)
Hill Street Theatre, 19 Hill Street EH2 3JP.
Evenings: 7.30pm (tbc).
Arkle enter their final year with Dario Fo’s brilliant farce, adapted by Tom Basden and directed by John Lally. An irrepressible fraudster known only as the Maniac is brought into Police Headquarters just as the officers are preparing for a judicial review of the recent ‘accidental’ death of a suspect in custody. Book here.

Weds 14 – Sat 17 May 2025
Quiz (Leitheatre)
Church Hill Theatre, 33 Morningside Road, EH10 4DR.
Mon-Fri: 7.30pm; Sat mat only: 2.30pm.
James Graham’s thrilling play combines the tension of a courtroom with the energy of a game show as a winning contestant on Britain’s Who Wants to Be A Millionaire? stands trial for cheating. Book here.

Thurs 15 – Sat 17 May 2025
Sister Act (Stage Door)
Portobello Town Hall
147-149 Portobello High St, EH15 1AF.
Evenings: 7.30pm; Sat mat: 2pm.
When Deloris Van Cartier is disguised as a nun after witnessing a murder, it’s only a matter of time before her cover is blown. Will the disco diva be able to save herself whilst inspiring a group of nuns and bringing life back into the church? An amateur cast led by professional creatives. Book here.

Thurs 22 – Sat 24 May 2025
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (Threepenny Theatricals)
Church Hill Theatre, 33 Morningside Road, EH10 4DR.
Evenings: 7.30pm; Sat mat: 2.30pm.
Comedy adapted for the stage by Constance Cox from Oscar Wilde’s short story about a man told by a chiromantist that he is destined to become a murderer. Comical scenarios, explosions and plot twists abound in a play filled with wonderful Wilde characters. Book here.

Wed 28 – Sat 31 May 2025
The Watsons (EPT)
Church Hill Theatre, 33 Morningside Road, EH10 4DR.
Wed-Fri: 7.30pm; Sat mat: 2.30pm.
Laura Wade takes up the story of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel, in which Emma Watson returns to the impoverished family home, after years of living with her rich aunt. Her mother is dead, her father is dying. She and her two sisters need to marry, fast… But from here on in, the myriad characters abandoned by their author have ideas of their own. How on earth is Wade to engineer her heroine’s happy ending? Book here.

Thurs 29 – Sat 31 May 2025
They Came From Mars… (St Serf’s Players)
Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre, 1a Clark Road, EH5 3BD.
Evenings: 7.30pm.
(And Landed Outside The Farndale Avenue Church Hall In Time For The Townswomen’s Guild’s Coffee Morning). Yes, those Farndale Avenue ladies attempt lift off with their Dramatic Society’s unique production of a sci fi thriller. Book here.

June 2025

Tue 24 – Fri 27 June 2025
Suddenly Last Summer (EGTG)
Assembly Roxy, 2 Roxburgh Place, EH8 9SU.
Evenings: 7.30pm (Upstairs).
Elderly, widowed socialite Violet Venable, living in a wealthy suburb of New Orleans, is grieving the death of her son, Sebastian, a poet, who died under mysterious circumstances the previous summer while holidaying with his cousin, Catherine Holly in Spain. By Tennessee Williams. Tickets on sale soon.

October 2025

Wed 29 Oct – Sat 1 Nov 2025

Come from Away (Blackout Productions)
Church Hill Theatre, 33 Morningside Road, EH10 4DR.
Evenings: 7.30pm; Sat mat: 2.30pm.
Based on the true story when the isolated community of Gander, Newfoundland, played host to the world. What started as an average day in a small town turned into an international sleepover, when 38 planes, carrying thousands of people from around the globe, were diverted to Gander’s airstrip on September 11, 2001. Book here.