Pleasance venues

Trainspotting Live

Trainspotting Live

★★★★★ Visceral

Overstimulating, intense, shocking, and emotional, Trainspotting Live at Pleasance at EICC isn’t afraid to take it too far – and has become a sensation by doing just that.

Aug 25 2024 | By | Reply More
Black is the Color of My Voice

Black is the Color of My Voice

★★★★☆ Stirring

Created by Apphia Campbell, Black is the Color of My Voice from Seabright Live looks back at the life of a musician, singer, and civil-rights activist on what seems to be the eve of her father’s funeral, as his death inspires her to seek clarity and redemption.

Aug 25 2024 | By | Reply More
At Home With Will Shakespeare

At Home With Will Shakespeare

★★★★★ Sans nothing

It’s a popular image of Shakespeare: the great Bard, bent over his desk, quill flying over parchment as he composes some of the greatest drama ever put on the stage. But in At Home With Will Shakespeare, Pip Utton’s Shakespeare does not write freely…

Aug 22 2024 | By | Reply More
Hamstrung

Hamstrung

★★★★☆ Method in’t

“A fellow of infinite jest,” is how Shakespeare introduced deceased court jester Yorick, but the Yorick of George Rennie’s Hamstrung is a being as existential as the appearance of his skull at a pivotal moment in Hamlet’s crisis deserves.

Aug 19 2024 | By | Reply More
Chatterbox

Chatterbox

★★★★☆ Gentle humour

Lubna Kerr’s Chatterbox, at the Pleasance Courtyard all Fringe, builds on her difficult experiences of growing up as a child of Muslim heritage in 1970s Scotland.

Aug 15 2024 | By | Reply More
Tit Swingers

Tit Swingers

★★★★★ Omg they were crewmates

From the team behind Julie: the Musical comes Tit Swingers, a Punk Gig Musical – with added Pirates. To the wild riffing of electric guitar, bass, and drums, Le Gasp! Productions tells the unapologetically queer story of Anne Bonny and Mary Read: pirate queens, hellcats, tit swingers. Oh, and Calico Jack— he’s there too.

Aug 9 2024 | By | Reply More