Arkle Theatre Company

Arkle and Out

Arkle and Out

End of an era as Arkle calls time

This Fringe sees the end of an era among Edinburgh’s amateur companies, when the unique Arkle Theatre Company drops the curtain on its final production, at the Royal Scots Club on Abercromby Place.

Aug 19 2025 | By More
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

★★★★☆ Dreamy

Arkle’s presentation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Royal Scots Club for the Fringe’s second week is an extremely impressive, thoroughly enjoyable affair.

Aug 12 2025 | By More
The 39 Steps

The 39 Steps

★★★★☆ Spiffing

Arkle’s The 39 Steps, at the Royal Scots Club for the Fringe’s second week, is a glorious piece of tongue-in-cheek entertainment.

Aug 12 2025 | By More
Nancy’s Philosopher

Nancy’s Philosopher

★★★★☆ Admirable restraint

Nancy’s Philosopher, at the Royal Scots Club through the first two weeks of the Fringe, is the first offering from Arkle Theatre Company in their final Festival – and it is delicate, tasteful and accomplished.

Aug 10 2025 | By More
Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Accidental Death of an Anarchist

★★★★☆ Timely

Arkle Theatre Company mix humour and deadly reality at the Hill Street Theatre, in their take on Accidental Death of an Anarchist, a farce that keeps living up to its genre with more and more irony.

May 16 2025 | By | Reply More
Arkle nose what’s up

Arkle nose what’s up

Arkle sniffs out Maxwell adaptation of Cyrano for Spring show

Edinburgh’s Arkle Theatre bring Edmond Rostand’s swashbuckling 1897 tale of panache, poetry, romance and a prominent proboscis Cyrano de Bergerac, to the Hill Street theatre next week.

Apr 18 2024 | By | Reply More
Lilies on the Land

Lilies on the Land

★★★★☆ Beautiful drama

Following on from the success of their production of David Haig’s Pressure in April, Arkle Theatre have returned to World War 2 for Lilies on the Land as the early evening Fringe offering.

Aug 19 2023 | By | Reply More
The Curious Case of Osgood Mackenzie

The Curious Case of Osgood Mackenzie

★★★☆☆ Unusual staging

The Curious Case of Osgood Mackenzie, from Arkle at the Royal Scots Club, is a well researched slice of Scottish history, presented in a way that has genuine novelty.

Aug 17 2023 | By | Reply More
Pressure

Pressure

★★★★☆ Energetic and intense

David Haig’s Pressure, focusing on two British obsessions: the weather and World War Two, had its world première at the Lyceum in 2014 and is now revived by Arkle at the Hill Street Theatre until Saturday.

Apr 20 2023 | By | Reply More
Silent Night

Silent Night

★★★★☆ Warming

Silent Night, from Arkle at the Royal Scots Club for one week only, is a cheering and beautifully assembled production.

Aug 16 2022 | By | Reply More
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