Edinburgh International Festival

Mary QoS Ballet for EIF

Mary QoS Ballet for EIF

Scottish Ballet to premiere Mary, Queen of Scots ballet at EIF 2025

Scottish Ballet is adding a new full-length narrative ballet about Mary, Queen of Scots to its repertoire, with a premiere at next summer’s Edinburgh International Festival, followed by a Scottish tour.

Nov 14 2024 | By | Reply More
The Fifth Step (EIF)

The Fifth Step (EIF)

★★★☆☆ Diffuse

The National Theatre of Scotland’s The Fifth Step at the Lyceum as part of the International Festival is a keenly observed and notably well acted piece that nevertheless lacks sustained impact.

Aug 22 2024 | By | Reply More
The Outrun (EIF)

The Outrun (EIF)

★★★★☆ Grandeur

The Outrun, from the International Festival and the Lyceum at the Church Hill Theatre for the whole three weeks, is a hugely ambitious, beautifully staged and extremely impressive production.

Aug 9 2024 | By | Reply More
Please Right Back (EIF)

Please Right Back (EIF)

★★★★☆ Dizzying invention

Kent-based company 1927 use their signature combination of live action and animation to great effect in the International Festival’s Please Right Back at the Studio.

Aug 6 2024 | By | Reply More
Life is a Dream (EIF)

Life is a Dream (EIF)

★★★☆☆ Patchy

Life is a Dream, from Cheek by Jowl at the Lyceum in the International Festival, has moments of beauty and humour but never coheres into the spectacle it promises to be.

Aug 27 2023 | By | Reply More
Dimanche (EIF)

Dimanche (EIF)

★★★★☆ Hugely inventive

Dimanche at the Church Hill is a magically inventive display. The International Festival production is a collaboration between two Belgian companies – Focus, who use puppets and miniature objects and Chaliwaté, a physical theatre troupe. Both of these approaches are in evidence in a constantly engaging spectacle.

Aug 17 2023 | By | Reply More
Thrown (EIF)

Thrown (EIF)

★★★★☆ Substantial

The National Theatre of Scotland’s Thrown, at the Traverse as part of the International Festival, is an intelligent and powerful piece of theatre.

Aug 8 2023 | By | Reply More
EIF Launches 2023 edition

EIF Launches 2023 edition

First Benedetti festival asks “Where do we go from here?”

The Edinburgh International Festival has launched its 2023 programme under the title of Where Do We Go From Here? inspired by Martin Luther King Jr’s last book.

Apr 24 2023 | By | Reply More
The End of Eddy (EIF)

The End of Eddy (EIF)

★★★★☆ Enthusiastic

The End of Eddy’s unflinching examination of small-town prejudice is done with verve and humour at the Church Hill Theatre as part of this year’s Edinburgh International Festival.

Aug 21 2022 | By | Reply More
Muster Station: Leith (EIF)

Muster Station: Leith (EIF)

★★★★☆ Chilling

Muster Station: Leith, by immersive theatre specialists Grid Iron for the EIF, uses the halls and corridors of Leith Academy to suggest what it might be like when the climate emergency reaches a crisis point, here, in Edinburgh.

Aug 20 2022 | By | Reply More