EIF 2016
Celtic Resistance
Wind Resistance for Celtic Connections
Celtic Connections is to stage Karine Polwart’s Wind Resistance, the five star Edinburgh Festival hit show, at the Tron Theatre for five performances only.
Così Fan Tutte:
Racial and sexual abuse should shock audiences, not the titillation
Eleanor Smith, Edinburgh Napier University
The new production of Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte’s classic opera Così Fan Tutte has attracted no shortage of controversy.
Before the Hudson and the Liffey
James Connolly in Edinburgh and Leith:
In this centenary year of the Easter Uprising, the EIF combined with Edinburgh’s trades unions to commission a short piece of theatre that remembered the union activities of James Connolly, who was born in Edinburgh.
The Glass Menagerie
✭✭✭✭✩ Sultry:
There is a taut emotional quality to Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie at the King’s theatre for a two week season as part of the Edinburgh International Festival.
Deep Time tix info
Ticketing for EIF free opening event announced:
Castle Rock will explode into volcanic life in front of an audience of up to 27,000 people, at the opening event of EIF 2016 on Sunday August 7.
EIF programme announced
Solid showing for Linehan’s second EIF:
Circus, Shakespeare and Sappy Songs will provide just some of the highlights for this year’s Edinburgh International Festival, running 5 – 29 August 2016.
