Studio Theatre Listings
Upcoming shows at the Studio Theatre
The Studio
The Studio, 22 Potterrow, EH8 9BL. Phone booking: 0131 529 6000
Website: www.capitaltheatres.com
The Studio. Pic Thom Dibdin
Capital Theatres’ Studio is linked to the back of the Festival Theatre but accessed from Pottorrow. A flexible rehearsal and performance space for early years and small-scale theatre and dance, it has a retractable bank of up to 160 seats. The venue is accessible via stairs and a lift.
Click on the name of the show or the Book here link to go to its ticketing site.
2024
July 2024
Open Floor (Scratch night)
Fri 19 July 2024
Eve 7.30pm.
Theatremakers test brand-new ideas in front of a live audience for the first time. Theo Seddon has Minnesota Ice Man, Indra Wilson has the autobiographical Float, Leo Shak and Emre Gozlugol have comedy All Fired Up and Rachel O’Regan has Austerity! The Variety Show Spectacular to Save Our NHS (Performed By One Woman Due To Short Staffing). Book here.
August 2024
Please right back (EIF)
Fri 2 – Sun 11 Aug 2024
Eve (not Tue): 7pm; Mats Mon, Wed, Sat 11: 2pm.
Award-winning company 1927 combines fantastical animations with bold storytelling to tell the wild adventures of the mysterious Mr E. Combining handcrafted animation and bold storytelling, Please right back sweeps audiences into a magical, mischievous world, inspired by the writer-director’s own childhood. Book here.
Nigamon / Tunai (EIF)
Thu 15 – Sun 18 Aug 2024
Evening: 7.30pm; Sun mat: 2.30pm.
Émilie Monnet, from Canada, and Waira Nina, from the Colombian Amazon, are interdisciplinary artists who seek to forge links between Indigenous people of the northern and southern hemispheres. They invite you into a mesmerising performance inspired by solidarity for the protection of water and resistance against extraction of resources. Book here.
After The Silence (EIF)
Wed 21 – Sat 24 Aug 2024
Evening: 8pm.
Director Christiane Jatahy fuses the qualities of cinema and theatre to explore structural racism and the legacy of slavery in her native Brazil. Her powerful play is loosely based on Itamar Vieira Junior’s best-selling novel Torto Arado and the 1984 film from Eduardo Coutinho Cabramarcado para morrer. Both of which focus on violence and repression in Brazil. Book here.
A Dame of Two Halves
Tue 24 Sept 2024
Evening: 7.30pm.
Join panto dames Aunty Disestablishmentarianism and Aunty Biotics on not one, definitely not three, but two riotous escapades which weave between Pantomime parody and fugitive-crime-thriller-very-serious-genre-play. Book here.
Love the Sinner (Imogen Stirling and Vanishing Point)
Tue 1 Oct 2024
Evening: 7.30pm.
Æ review: ★★★★★ Masterful
A beautifully produced fusion of performance poetry, visual theatre and live electronic music, that reflects on the meaning of being human today. Book here.
Anna Hibiscus’ Song
Thu 3 – Sat 5 Oct 2024
Two shows: 10.30am & 1.30pm.
The story of a young girl named Anna Hibiscus. Anna lives in amazing Africa. Ibadan, Nigeria to be exact. Anna Hibiscus is so filled with happiness that she feels like she might float away. And the more she talks to her family about it, the more her happiness grows! There’s only one thing to do…Sing! Book here.
DEMENTIA – The Musical
Sat 12 Oct 2024
Two shows: 2pm & 7.15pm.
A new musical theatre production by Ron Coleman, Scottish poet and writer living with dementia, in collaboration with renowned director Magdalena Schamberger and one of Britain’s top Jazz musicians Sophie Bancroft as composer and musical director plus additional music by esteemed songwriter Andrew Eaton-Lewis. Design by Karen Tennent. Book here.
Treasure Island (Scottish Theatre Producers)
Tue 15 Oct 2024
Evening: 6pm.
Local lad Robbie Stevenson prefers to hide away from the world inside the pages of his favourite book, Treasure Island. But with a little bit of imagination, the book comes to life, and he is thrust aboard. Robbie soon finds that you can’t stay hiding forever when he must learn to navigate his own course, and to discover the world is full of treasure, if you’re brave enough to look. Book here.
That Feeling When (Lyra Young Company)
Fri 25/Sat 26 Oct 2024
Fri: 7.30pm; Sat: 2pm.
From the softest new gloves in winter to screaming on rollercoasters in summer, That Feeling When is a sensory dance theatre and live music production, which asks how the seasons can be a guide to what feels good in the cycle of teen-hood Book here.
I Am Rhythm, Spirit of Africa (Morgan Njobo)
Fri 1 Nov 2024
Evening: 7.30pm.
A heartwarming, entertaining and captivating musical story exploring South Africa’s past, present and future, interwoven with signature music and dance styles rooted in tribal and modern rhythms and powerful harmonies. Book here.
The Gift (Barrowland Ballet)
Sat 14 – Tue 31 Dec 2024
Two shows daily: 11am & 2pm. (not Mon 16/Tue 17, Mon 23, Wed 25/Thurs 26)
Æ review: ★★★★★ Magical
This is a story reversing the idea that it is the wrapping paper, the cardboard boxes and ribbons that should be discarded, and reveals that playfulness, creativity and imagination are the true gifts. Celebrates the art of play, taking ordinary objects making them extraordinary and magical. Book here.
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