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Dear Billy

Dear Billy

★★★★★ Joyous

Everyone has a Billy Connolly story. Ask around on any Scottish High Street, and folk will have a story about the Big Yin. Which is both the premiss and the promise of Dear Billy, at the Traverse for three nights only.

May 20, 2023 | By | Reply More
Love The Sinner

Love The Sinner

★★★★★ Masterful

Imogen Stirling does not miss a beat in Love The Sinner, an enthralling fusion of poetry and electronic music created in collaboration with Vanishing Point at the Traverse for two nights only.

May 17, 2023 | By | Reply More
Who Killed My Father

Who Killed My Father

★★★★☆ Compelling

Who Killed My Father at the Traverse mixes the personal and the political thoroughly successfully.

May 12, 2023 | By | Reply More
Sean and Daro Flake It ‘til They Make It

Sean and Daro Flake It ‘til They Make It

★★★★☆     Cone-tastic comedy

Sean and Daro Flake It ‘til They Make It, Laurie Motherwell’s new cone-tastic comedy at the Traverse until Sunday 23 April, is the theatre’s first in-house production in its 60th Anniversary year.

April 16, 2023 | By | Reply More
Listings Mon 10 – Sun 16 April 2023

Listings Mon 10 – Sun 16 April 2023

What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?

The last week of the Easter break marks the arrival of what might be the hottest ticket to come to town this year –  Isobel McArthur’s latest venture into classic adaptations with Kidnapped, at the Lyceum for a limited season.

April 12, 2023 | By | Reply More
Stornoway, Quebec

Stornoway, Quebec

★★★★☆ Wild Gaelic Western

Theatre Gu Leòr’s, Stornoway, Quebec, is a wild Gaelic Western, based loosely around the real figure of Donald Morrison, the Mégantic Outlaw, and set in a failing hotel in Quebec.

April 10, 2023 | By | Reply More
Family Tree

Family Tree

★★★★☆ Illuminating

Family Tree, by Mojisola Adebayo, at the Traverse for three nights only, is a word-spitting, poetic and coruscating piece of theatre that brings light to a shameful corner of the scientific world.

April 6, 2023 | By | Reply More
PPP: The Spark

PPP: The Spark

★★★★☆ Fiery

The Spark by Kathy McKean, the final offering in the current Traverse run of Oran Mor’s Play, Pie and a Pint, is a clever and compelling piece of theatre.

April 5, 2023 | By | Reply More
PPP: Variant

PPP: Variant

★★★★☆ Unsettling

There is a pleasing intransigence to Variant by Peter Arnott, the latest Play, Pie and a Pint from Oran Mor at the Traverse and Arnott’s fiftieth professionally produced play.

March 28, 2023 | By | Reply More
PPP: Write Off

PPP: Write Off

★★★★☆ Magnetic

There is an undeniable force to Aodhan Gallagher’s Write-Off, the latest Play, Pie and a Pint at the Traverse, presented by Oran Mor in association with Dundee Rep.

March 22, 2023 | By | Reply More