Suzanne Lofthus

Passionate voices

Passionate voices

Women’s stories take centre stage in Passion Play

The script for this year’s Passion Play in Princes Street Gardens West tells the Easter story as always, but is inspired by the injustices still suffered by women around the world to this day.

Mar 28 2024 | By | Reply More
Judas wanted…

Judas wanted…

Edinburgh Easter Play’s open call for Princess Street Gardens show

Cutting Edge Theatre has put out an open call for amateur performers to join the cast of its annual production of The Edinburgh Easter Play in Princess Street Gardens.

Jan 31 2023 | By | Reply More
Easter Play Rises

Easter Play Rises

Passion Play returns to Princes St Gardens

Edinburgh’s open-air Easter Play returns to Princes Street Gardens West on Saturday April 16 with a fresh take on the Easter story which brings it right up to the present day.

Apr 15 2022 | By | Reply More
Seaside streaming

Seaside streaming

Dunbar company puts Mary QoS play online:

Battery Theatre, which creates site-specific shows for and about the community of Dunbar, is putting its most recent production online, after being forced to cancel this summer’s offering due to Covid-19.

Apr 17 2020 | By | Reply More
Easter Play becomes Edinburgh Passion

Easter Play becomes Edinburgh Passion

Easter story to be told in 63 hour epic:

The Princes Street Easter Play is to be expanded this year into a city-wide community play, The Edinburgh Passion, with different groups telling the story of Jesus’s death and resurrection in real time across the city.

Jan 23 2020 | By | 2 Replies More
Cutting Edge Downs

Cutting Edge Downs

Downs With Love for Assembly Roxy:

A young woman who has Down’s Syndrome is the star of a hard hitting new play from Edinburgh-based Cutting Edge Theatre which tours to the Assembly Roxy for one night only this Wednesday.

Jun 4 2018 | By | Reply More
New script rises for Easter

New script rises for Easter

Fresh take for annual Easter play:

The two thousand year-old story of Easter is getting a fresh take in the brand new Passion Play which will be performed in Edinburgh city centre on Easter weekend.

Mar 30 2018 | By | Reply More
New Easter Passion

New Easter Passion

Fresh take on Easter Story:
Edinburgh’s Easter Play in Princes Street Gardens gets a fresh perspective this Saturday, as new writer Kamala Jane Santos puts Mary, mother of Jesus, in the narrator’s role.

Apr 14 2017 | By | 2 Replies More
The People Vote INSPIRE

The People Vote INSPIRE

INSPIRE wins People’s Project vote:
The INSPIRE project run by Edinburgh-based Cutting Edge Theatre has won in the People’s Project awards, in which the public voted for three of five nominated projects.

Apr 7 2017 | By | 1 Reply More
People’s Project Vote

People’s Project Vote

INSPIRE short-listed in The People’s Project:
A project run by Edinburgh-based Cutting Edge Theatre has been short-listed in the People’s Project awards, in which the public vote for three of five nominated projects.

Mar 17 2017 | By | 2 Replies More