An opportunity to ask Vicky Featherstone about her career as a director, seek advice and to find out what it is to be the Artistic Director of the National Theatre of Scotland. Don't miss this!

Putting on a play? Find out more about producing shows from those in the know with our panel of established producers: Richard Jordan, James Seabright and Guy Masterson.

What are you? Actor or performer? Doing or being? Discuss these questions with actress Nichola McAuliffe, well known for her extensive television and stage work which includes Edinburgh, Chichester, RSC and the West End. Book now!

How to produce and buy your shirt back! The Stage newspaper lists Nica as the fifth most important person in British theatre. Chief Executive of Nimax Theatres, Nica will tell all about producing.

An extraordinary collection of human beings are contained within glass jars and cabinets. An exploration of how we might live within our limits - featuring Clod Ensemble's distinct style of imagery, choreography and original music. A Sadler's Wells commission.

PLEASE NOTE:

Show Start Times are:-

12pm,3pm and 5pm (20mins)

A theatrical tribute to the Hollywood movie industry through movement and
pantomime.
Superman, King Kong, Pink Panther, Bruce Lee, Freddy Kruger and more in
mighty combats, breathtaking journeys, heartbreaking drama, romance and an unusual ending – brought to life on stage with few props, few words and plenty of action.

'Well trained mime artists… the audience laughed throughout the whole show' HAARETZ
'The Next Big Thing' MAARIV

AND ECCLESIASTICAL OBJECTIONS: BEING A MUSICAL COMEDY ABOUT CHARLES DARWIN.
The makers of family hit show Crunch! (Total Theatre Award nominees, **** Scotsman) bring you an irreverent insight into the most important idea... ever!

'Simply wonderful... it’s downright silly in the best possible way ****'
THE LIST (ON CRUNCH)

The critically acclaimed Runaground are back in Edinburgh as they bring Woody Allen’s 1975 comedy irreverently and tunefully to the stage. Sex-deprived writer Hepatitis and apathetic actor Diabetes struggle helplessly to find an ending for their play, as they waltz catastrophically with the omnipotent.

'Runaground are one to watch' BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE

Please note this show is not suitable for under 14s.

Nine-year-old Rachel is not sweet, not innocent and not polite. With sidekick Hortense, she’s on a mission to reach double figures. Will she make it?
Acclaimed comic monologue for adults about being a child. Daniel Goldman
directs the UK premiere of this show with over 250 European performances.

'We’re in love. A brilliant surprise. Bravo!' PARISCOPE - FRANCE

Please note: this show contains adult material
'Deliciously bittersweet, you’ll rediscover your childhood' LE POINT - FRANCE

Three blocked creatives need to get unblocked. But how can you think the coffee, if you don't drink the coffee? A fast new comedy by Glyn Cannon, the Fringe First-winning writer of 'Gone' - 'shockingly good' (Lyn Gardner, Guardian).

www.donkeycoffeecompany.co.uk

Please note: this show contains strong language

The multi-award-winning trio return with their sell-out Fringe hit – and, in an act of reckless hubris, swap the roles each day, as chosen by the audience. Fred and Eddie unravel the mystery of their missing friend, battling quick-witted punning, knockabout farce and dried fruit. Cameron
Mackintosh New Writing Award-Winner.

'Has the audience erupting with laughter from the start. Entertaining and surprisingly powerful theatre' FEST

'Exceptionally clever… Definitely one of the best productions on this year’s
Fringe! Don’t miss!' BUXTON FRINGE

Let your host Khadijeh take you on a journey to a mystical place where truths, half-truths and un-truths circulate.
Leaping between playful myths and dark realities this extraordinary, intimate one-woman show bears witness to the painful but exhilarating struggle to understand and to be understood.

'a blazingly vivid encounter – complete with carpets, cushions and tea ****' SCOTSMAN
'a magic carpet ride into hand-me-down mythology ****' HERALD

Please note: the show is suitable for over 14s only

Pleasance Hut and Baby Grand are located a short walk from the main courtyard on Drummond Street.

BEHIND the electric fences of a Johannesburg hostel two backpackers befriend a Zimbabwean refugee. But a volatile atmosphere is building – at the heart of it, a plot to assassinate Mugabe.
When their presence opens old wounds will the tourists help or are some problems too deep for outsiders to solve?

Please note: this show is suitable for over 16s only.

At the moment of his liberation an anonymous man tells the story of his family’s humiliation, degradation and ultimate destruction by the Nazis. A starkly intense study of one mans’ journey into the despair, pain and extreme personal guilt created by unspeakable acts of genocide.

'A visceral and brave work that is a powerful theatrical cry against human brutality ****' SUNDAY HERALD (ON THE FACTORY)

'This black experience is something to which any serious theatre-goer
should submit *****' SCOTSMAN (ON CRUCIFIXION)

Forgotten Things. Red Ladder’s 40th anniversary show. A dark comic play
about finding hope...and what happens when it is taken away. Fusing puppetry, innovative theatre and surreal style. A dysfunctional family struggle to cope with their suicidal son and senile grandmother.

‘Moving, funny, human and engaging’ Manchester Evening News.

A mellifluous narrative that tells the hilarious exploits of a natural-born mischief growing from the clay streets of Nigeria to the roof tops in Dublin, and finally to London.

British Council Showcase 2009
A BAC Scratch Commission with Apples and Snakes
A London Word Festival Commission

Pleasance Hut and Baby Grand are located a short walk from the main courtyard on Drummond Street.

Roll up, roll up! Observe the tragic tale of the murderous Woyzeck - soldier, medical experiment, doting father and betrayed husband. With nothing but a trunk-full of junk, three talented performers create an exhilarating mix of comedy, tragedy and song in Splendid’s highly inventive adaptation of the Büchner classic.

'A brilliant touring theatre company' TEACHING DRAMA MAGAZINE

'***** ...Bravura...' SOUTH WALES ARGUS

Please note: this show contains some strong language.

Pleasance Hut and Baby Grand are located a short walk from the main courtyard on Drummond Street.

One Penthouse suite in Beverly Hills.
Eighty journalists at the door. All they need is a soundbite.
All Ray has to do is tell the truth…
The stage premiere of the critically-acclaimed BBC Radio 4 play.

'Brett Goldstein’s clever play combines high emotion with knowing comedy about Hollywood' OBSERVER

'A sharp tale' DAILY TELEGRAPH

Please note: this show is suitable for over 12s only.

Bring your passports for a very foolish and very serious take on the efforts of the English to outsmart a gang of illegal immigrants who arrive damp in Dover. Visual, physical theatre that intermingles clowning, pathos and enthusiastic storytelling. Filled with love, friendship and the inability to swim.

‘Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, ticked the clock as Ernest Hemel sat, quiet and still in the darkened corner of his apartment block. Watching, waiting…’

A spine-chilling tale of obsession and murder from writer Oliver Lansley and the multiple award-winning team behind ‘The Terrible Infants’.

Poe meets Hitchcock in this noir horror combining live music and physical storytelling.

'Taking the spirit of Struwwelpeter, Edward Gorey and Roald Dahl screeching and laughing into the 21st century…Captivating' STAGE

'Any show that cites Roald Dahl and Tim Burton in its publicity material has a lot to live up to... But do you know, they’re right… Utterly captivating' SCOTSMAN

'This deliciously dark and twisted show repeatedly proves just how good fringe theatre can, and should, be' METRO (ON THE TERRIBLE INFANTS)

New midnight showing on the evening of the 27th/28th just announced...

Please note: this show is not suitable for under 12s.