Theatre

Kneecaps
★★★☆☆ Bursting with ideas
Fizzing onto the Assembly Roxy’s upstairs space, Kneecaps, the debut production from grassroots company the Moot Point Collective, working in association with Framework Theatre Company, bursts with ideas and opinions.

Leithers Live – the Custom House Play
★★★★☆ Intriguing
The Citadel Arts Group sketch out the history Leith as seen through the women folk of one family in this clever piece of promenade drama which plays through the rooms of the Leith Custom House for four performances only.

Austen rom-com returns
Pride and Prejudice* (*Sort Of) sets Scottish dates
The Olivier award winning production of Pride and Prejudice* (*Sort Of) is returning to Scotland this Autumn with three weeks at the Royal Lyceum followed by a week at the Glasgow King’s.

Trust Me & Wasted
★★★★☆ (Trust Me) & ★★★☆☆ (Wasted)
The Festival of Peer Inspiration is a chance to see two pieces of theatre of a kind which tours widely through Scotland’s schools, but which are rarely even acknowledged in the wider theatre community.

Wife After Death
★★★☆☆ Nuanced
St Serf’s Players return to the main stage with a nicely controlled production of Eric Chappell’s dark comedy, Wife After Death, at Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre for three performances only.

A Tomb With A View
★★★☆☆ Ridiculous
Cheerfully ludicrous and staged with considerable craft, Edinburgh People’s Theatre’s production of A Tomb With A View is thoroughly entertaining.

Tomb Hopping
EPT get farcical with Norman Robbins
Edinburgh People’s Theatre return to the Church Hill Theatre this week with a production of A Tomb with a View, from Wednesday to Saturday, following the success of the Men Should Weep back in March.

Hay Fever
★★★☆☆ Lightly hilarious
Every family has their foibles, but the Bliss family are next-level eccentric in Noel Coward’s delicious comedy Hay Fever – brought to the Assembly Roxy by EGTG for four performances only.