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The Bookies is a dark thriller comedy that’s based on an idea that emerged over 15 years ago from two working class Scottish writers and long term friends, Mikey Burnett and Joe McCann. Written in East Coast dialect, the play is set in an Edinburgh bookies’ and deals with themes of  misogyny, racism, greed and addiction.Continue reading “Cast Announced for Dundee Rep’s New Black Comedy The Bookies”

The Fruitmarket Warehouse, part of the Fruitmarket Gallery, is a new space for art in Edinburgh that lends itself to performance. In May it will play host to multi-media performer Appau Jnr Boayke-Yiadom  who challenges  ideas that that live performance involves seeing the performer’s body. There have been two iterations of the concept with the firstContinue reading “Sound–Based Performance from Appau Jnr Boayke-Yiadom at Fruitmarket ”

Theatre Company Wonder Fools, whose aim  is to present lost, unknown and forgotten stories in theatrical form, present a  version of award winning performance artist Bryony Kimmings’  Revolting played by a group of young theatre-makers. For one night only at  the Traverse, Scotland’s new writing theatre, young people from fifteen different locations across Scotland willContinue reading “Young Theatre-Makers to Present Bryony Kimmings’ Revolting at Traverse Theatre”

Sunday 24 April sees Assembly Roxy host the return of Scotland’s iconic Circus Cabaret Night created by Edinburgh-based company Delighters, with Cirqulation: Future –  a celebration of life, growth, survival, change and perseverance. The line-up, curated by founder Jusztina Hermann, seeks to represent a new wave of circus acts emerging alongside international touring talents that rarely take toContinue reading “Scotland’s Circus Cabaret Cirqulation is Back”

Here we have the latest offering from the “Goes Wrong” crew, Mischief Theatre – or perhaps that should be franchise rather than crew these days, given how they have built on the success of the original Play that Goes Wrong. With several follow ups, and two series on BBC television, they are a force toContinue reading “Magic Goes Wrong Festival Theatre”

Peter Mullen’s 1998 pitch black comedy film Orphans has been transposed to the stage in musical form thanks to a germ of an idea from director Cora Bissett that has grown to gloriously full bloom in the hands of a veritable dream team of creatives. The story centres on the four Flynn family siblings asContinue reading “Orphans The Musical King’s Theatre”