Spoken Word
EdFringe 2025: Dance
Edinburgh-made Dance at EdFringe 2025
Thanks largely to Dance Base – Scotland’s National Centre for Dance – there are enough Edinburgh dance companies at the Fringe to get their own listing for the first time.
EdFringe 2025: Cabaret, Comedy & Spoken Word
Edinburgh-made Cabaret, Variety, Comedy & Spoken Word at EdFringe 2025
Besides all the theatre and musicals on offer at this year’s Fringe, here are 42 shows with a theatrical bent in the Cabaret and Variety, Comedy and Spoken Word sections of the EdFringe website.
EdFringe 2024: Music, cabaret & dance
Edinburgh-made music, cabaret & dance at #EdFringe 2024
Beside all the theatre and musicals on offer here are 21 shows with a theatrical bent in the music, cabaret, and dance sections of the EdFringe portal.
Elegies
★★★★☆ Evocative and relevant
The Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland’s dance adaptation of Hamish Henderson’s Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica is an evocative piece of theatre that is particularly relevant to our troubled world, despite being published in 1948.
Animate Lands: Mythic Celtic Tales
★★★★☆ Accomplished storytelling
Animate Lands: Mythic Celtic Tales at the Scottish Storytelling Centre is a fascinating hour of stories from Scotland’s Celtic heritage presented by Dougie Mackay and Freya Rae.
EdFringe 2023: Cabaret; Comedy; Dance, Physical Theatre & Circus; Spoken Word
Edinburgh-made comedy, dance, physical theatre, circus and spoken word at #EdFringe 2023
Beside all the theatre and musicals on offer here are 36 shows with a theatrical bent in the cabaret, comedy, dance and spoken word sections of the EdFringe portal.
EdFringe22: Dance, Cabaret & Spoken Word
Dance, Cabaret & Spoken Word, made in Edinburgh at EdFringe 2022
Edinburgh’s theatre companies have come back strong after the pandemic with 116 theatrical productions at the Fringe including many new shows and a handful of returning favourites.
Quines
★★★☆☆ Poetic history:
Quines from Gerda Stevenson at Paradise in the Vault is one of those home-grown, quietly accomplished shows that will never hit the headlines but are the backbone of the Fringe.
Electric Contact – A Jazz Tribute to Tom McGrath
★★★★★ Explored:
Three Thomases – Tom, Tommie and Tam – got the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s retrospective tribute to the late, great Tom McGrath off to a belter of a start on Friday night.
Science festival Theatre
The Ideas Factory in performance:
This year’s Edinburgh Science Festival has been launched as the Ideas Factory, a hub for information, ideas and innovation, taking place in Edinburgh from Friday 4 to Sunday 19 April 2015.
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