Leitheatre
Listings: Mon 23 – Sun 29 May 2022
What’s on Edinburgh’s Stages this week?
It’s a big week for Edinburgh’s amateur companies, with four different productions being staged around the city and the inaugural StagEHd festival coming to the Ross Bandstand over the coming weekend.
A Room with a Couple
Odd Couple ticket holders can use tickets for EPT show
Edinburgh People’s Theatre has offered any ticket holders for the cancelled Leitheatre production of The Odd Couple the opportunity to use them to see EPT’s A Tomb With A View.
Odd Couple pulled
Covid hits Leitheatre’s Studio show
Positive testings for Covid in Leitheatre’s cast have caused it to abandon its production of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple which had been due to play the Studio this week.
The One Acts Are Back!
SCDA One Act Festival is this week
The Edinburgh region rounds of the SCDA’s One Act Festival return this week, Thursday 17 and Saturday 19 February 2022 to the Church Hill Theatre, with six plays in competition over the two nights.
Listings Mon 14 – Sun 20 Feb 2022
What’s on Edinburgh’s Stages This Week..
There’s a blessed sense of normality about this week on Edinburgh’s stages, with something approaching a full house of productions – only the Lyceum has yet to re-open but it will be soon.
It’s One-Act Week
SCDA One Act Festival returns to Church Hill:
The SCDA’s One Act Festival returns to the Church Hill Theatre this week with a dozen plays set to be performed over the four night run.
A second life in theatre
Susan Wales Hampson’s autobiographical notes:
Today, we remember Susan Wales Hampson who died on Sunday 15 September 2019 at the age of 72. Susan was a strong and integral part of Edinburgh’s amateur and community theatre scene for almost 20 years.
Susan Wales Hampson
Amateur theatre stalwart dies aged 72:
Susan Wales Hampson, a pillar of Edinburgh’s amateur theatre scene in both an official and personal capacity, has died on Sunday 15 September 2019. She was 72.
Tartuffe
★★★★☆ Great Scots:
The fundamental comic energy, pace and Scots snap Leitheatre give to Tartuffe at St Serf’s is very welcome, making for a refreshing, breezy production.
EdFringe Theatre – Amateur Companies
Edinburgh’s Amateur theatre companies at EdFringe:
As the fringe continues to grow, so does the input from Edinburgh-based companies. This year there are an unprecedented 93 different productions in the theatre section of the Fringe programme alone.
