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The 2020 Fringe may have been cancelled but hope runs high for 2021 with the launch of a campaign called Fringemas Fundraiser that aims to raise £25,000 by the 17th December 2020 for the charity. The money will allow the organisation to help bring back the festival in 2021; support artists and other participants toContinue reading “Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society Launches Fringemas Fundraiser”

As part of the Traverse digital programme, a Scotsman Fringe First Award winner in 2019 comes back to Edinburgh in Traverse 3 for the first two weeks in December. Mustard, written and performed by Eva O’Connor, is a one-woman show about heartbreak, madness and condiments as coping mechanisms. When E meets the man of herContinue reading “Early Festive Treat at Traverse from Irish New Play Company Fishamble”

Scotland’s visual theatre, puppetry and animated film festival, Manipulate, that’s been brightening Edinburgh’s dark early months since 2008, announce it’s 2021 return in a new form.  In a brief YouTube video, Puppet Animation’s CEO, Dawn Taylor launched the programme that will run from 21st January till 21st February 2021 with the three aims of provocation,Continue reading “New Version of Annual Manipulate Festival Announced for 2021”

This year’s annual panto in Musselburgh’s Brunton theatre takes a new form. Instead of a live stage production, this season’s version of the Grimm’s fairy tale Rapunzel from the redoubtable John Binnie, will be screened in the Brunton’s cinema space instead. We will see Rapunzel who was locked in a tower being rescued by herContinue reading “Rapunzel the Pantomime to be Screened at The Brunton”

Fibres, the jointly produced play from Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre and Edinburgh’s Stellar Quines, has been remade as a filmed version that will premiere online on Wednesday 25 November at 7pm. Written by award-winning playwright Frances Poet, Fibres explores the deadly legacy of asbestos in the Clyde shipyards, giving voice to the stories of women andContinue reading “Premiere of New Filmed Version of Stage Play Fibres Announced”