Institut français d’Ecosse

Lost in Translation: A Bilingual Journey
★★★☆☆ Lively but unorganised:
Edinburgh-based Theatre Sans Accents’ first full theatre production, Lost in Translation, brings an exuberant energy that does not always translate into a consistent delivery.

Skins and Hoods
✭✭✭✩✩ Gets under the skin:
Young critics scheme review
After its world debut in the Avignon Festival last year, Cie du Veilieur brings Gustave Akakpo’s exploration of identity to the French Institute for the 2015 Festival Fringe.

Skins and Hoods
✭✭✭✩✩ Overcomplicated:
Skins and Hoods at the French Institute is an ambitious multimedia production whose most successful elements are those closest to traditional theatre.

Skins and Hoods
✭✭✭✩✩ Intense
Young critics scheme review:
There is an interesting perspective on discrimination and identity in Skins and Hoods at the French Institute.

French Institute remembers Cocteau
The fiftieth anniversary of the death of Jean Cocteau is to be marked at Edinburgh’s Institut français d’Ecosse tonight with a performance in French of La Voix Humaine.