Studio Theatre Listings

Upcoming shows at the Studio Theatre

Studio Theatre
The Studio, 22 Potterrow, EH8 9BL. Phone booking: 0131 529 6000
Website: www.capitaltheatres.com

The Studio Theatre. 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.

2025

The Horse of Jenin
Fri 20 June 2025
Evening: 7.30pm.
Part of Art27 Scotland’s CULTURE = LIFE programme.
Palestinian performer Alaa Shehada brings his signature blend of humour and heart to the story of a sculpture built from the wreckage of Israeli invasions, that stood in the centre of Jenin Camp as a symbol of resistance, imagination, and pride. In October 2023, it was destroyed by an Israeli bulldozer — but this performance is about what cannot be destroyed. Book here.

Balfour Reparations 2025-2045
Sat 21 June 2025
Afternoon: 4pm.
Part of Art27 Scotland’s CULTURE = LIFE programme.
What if the UK publicly apologised for the Balfour Declaration—and promised reparations to the Palestinian people? Inspired by archival materials, Farah Saleh’s unique and powerful performance lecture investigates ways of confronting the United Kingdom’s colonial legacy in Palestine. Book here.

Hopeful Monsters
Fri 5 – Sat 6 Sep 2025
Fri: 6pm; Sat: 1.30pm.
The story of evolution told entirely with hands. They move and morph in unusual ways, becoming unexpected creatures that shapeshift as we journey through water, earth and air. It’s a tale of survival and struggle, of connection and transformation, and a reminder of the playfulness of living. After all, we humans are animals too. Book here.

Hercules the Bear (Tenterhooks)
Tue 30 Sep 2025
Evening: 6pm.
Don’t you love a tall tale? Like the one about the Scottish couple who raised a 10ft grizzly bear in their home? Sounds crazy, but it’s no joke. It happened in Sheriffmuir in the 1980s! Combining physical comedy and puppetry, Hercules the Bear tells the wild, funny and touching true story of how a very special grizzly bear became a folk legend. Book here.

Common Tongue (Fraser Scott)
Fri 3 Oct 2025
Evening: 7.30pm.
Bonnie’s life has been defined by wirds; the richt wans, the wrang wans, aun the wans used against her. The now, Bonnie haes a chance to speak aboot it. But the last time she done any public speaking wis a solo talk in Primary School. This time roon she’s no really sure whit she’s gonnae say, or even how she’s gonnae say it. Book here.

The Paper Dolls (Little Angel & Polka Theatres)
Thu 9 – Sat 11 Oct 2025
Daily: 10.30am & 1.30pm.
When a little girl cuts out a string of paper dolls she takes them by the hand and together they go on a fantastical adventure whirling through their home and garden. Ticky, Tacky, Jackie the Backie, Jim with two noses and Jo with the bow fly through time and tear across worlds of fun and excitement in this adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb’s book. Book here.