ED2019 THEATRE

Theatre at Edinburgh Festival 2019

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The Edinburgh Festival is the world’s greatest theatre fest. You will find grand theatrical productions in the Edinburgh International Festival, though it is the Fringe that really overflows with theatre. From student and amateur groups to the world’s leading independent theatre companies, there is something for everyone, with a particularly good selection of new plays.

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ED2019 THEATRE FEATURES

Three To See 2019: Final Weekend24 August 2019

Hannah Maxwell: I, AmDram22 August 2019

Eight Steps Q&A: Alex Gwyther22 August 2019

Grace Thorner: The Greenhouse20 August 2019

Eight Steps Q&A: James Rowland20 August 2019

Eight Steps Q&A: Tanya Agarwal17 August 2019

Madeleine Skipsey: She Sells Sea Shells16 August 2019

Eight Steps Q&A: Jordan & Skinner16 August 2019

Eight Steps Q&A: Julia Croft14 August 2019

Rachel E Thorn and Alex Keen: Between Us14 August 2019

Lucy Danser: If This Is Normal13 August 2019

Tom Machell: Ticker11 August 2019

Paul Davies: The Populars8 August 2019

Cheong-euy Park: Spray and MacBeth6 August 2019

Three To See 2019: Horrifying Themes4 August 2019

Three To See 2019: Climate Change Stuff3 August 2019

Three To See 2019: Poetic Shows3 August 2019

Three To See 2019: Feminist Themes3 August 2019

Sarah-Jane Scott: Appropriate2 August 2019

Three To See 2019: Motherhood2 August 2019

Three To See 2019: Mental Health And The Mind2 August 2019

Three To See 2019: Men And Masculinity1 August 2019

Three To See 2019: Folk Tale Themes1 August 2019

Three To See 2019: Dark Themes1 August 2019

Three To See 2019: Ghostly Goings On31 July 2019

Three To See 2019: American Classics30 July 2019

Eight Steps Q&A: Oliver Forsyth28 July 2019

Three To See 2019: Political Shows19 July 2019

Matthew Greenhough: It'll Be Alt-Right On The Night8 July 2019

Lewys Holt: Phrases and Footnotes21 June 2019

Three To See 2019: Three Shows With Animal Themes14 June 2019

Three To See 2019: Shows About Women In History7 June 2019

Gabriela Flarys: There She Is24 May 2019

ED2019 THEATRE REVIEWS

SAGA (Stones Theatre Company)27 August 2019

E8 (The North Wall in association with The Pleasance)27 August 2019

Last Of The Pelican Daughters (The Wardrobe Ensemble / Complicité / Royal & Derngate Northampton)27 August 2019

dressed. (ThisEgg in collaboration with Made My Wardrobe)27 August 2019

Have I Told You I'm Writing A Play About My Vagina? (Chucked Up Theatre)25 August 2019

Ladybones (Sorcha McCaffrey)25 August 2019

Byrony Kimmings: I'm A Pheonix, Bitch (Avalon Promotions)25 August 2019

Bobby And Amy (Emma Blackman Productions and Emily Jenkins)25 August 2019

Sexy Lamp (Katie Arnstein and Victoria Gagliano)24 August 2019

Black Is the Color Of My Voice (Apphia Campbell presented by James Seabright and Play The Spotlight)24 August 2019

Red Herring (Gardyloo)23 August 2019

Play Before Birth (Coast to Coast Theatre Company)23 August 2019

My Mum's A Twat (Showroom)23 August 2019

Love (Watching Madness) (SpeakUp Theatre)23 August 2019

HOTTER (Ellie Keel Productions and HOTTER Project)23 August 2019

Broken Funnies (Martin Bearne)22 August 2019

The Struggling Life Of An Artist (Hitting Heads Productions)22 August 2019

My Love Lies Frozen In The Ice (Dead Rabbits Theatre)22 August 2019

(I)sland T(rap): The Epic Remixology Of The Odyssey (Lyrical Therapy University and Aztec Economy)22 August 2019

How To Save A Life (Glass Half Full Theatre)22 August 2019

Cardboard Citizens: Bystanders (Cardboard Citizens)22 August 2019

White Girls (Laughing Mirror)22 August 2019

A Table Tennis Play (Walrus)21 August 2019

Intolerable Side Effects (Claire Parry)21 August 2019

The Canary And The Crow (Middle Child)21 August 2019

Teach (Bread And Butter Productions)20 August 2019

Mighty (Jack Britton in association with the Pleasance and Leicester Curve)20 August 2019

Anything With A Pulse (Wonky Donkey)20 August 2019

Ladies Who Lunch (Fourth Wall Theatre Company)18 August 2019

Fires Our Shoes Have Made (Pound Of Flesh)18 August 2019

Gun (Phil And Will)18 August 2019

Genesis: The Mary Shelley Play (Artists Collective Theatre - Calgary, Alberta, Canada)18 August 2019

2Elfth Night (Keane & Doyle)18 August 2019

First Time (Nathaniel Hall presented by Dibby Theatre with Waterside Arts)18 August 2019

Buzzing (Debbie Bird)18 August 2019

A Wake In Progress (Fine Mess Theatre and Leila Sykes)17 August 2019

Manual Cinema's Frankenstein (Underbelly and Manual Cinema)17 August 2019

Arrivals (Twelve Twelve Theatre and New Celts Productions)17 August 2019

Suffering From Scottishness (Kevin P Gilday)17 August 2019

Ricky Riddlegang And The Riddlegang (Peracals Productions)17 August 2019

Last Life: A Shakespeare Play (The Box Collective and Piece of Yourself)17 August 2019

Wild Swimming (FullRogue / Pleasance / Bristol Old Vic Ferment)16 August 2019

Madame Ovary (WildChild Productions)16 August 2019

STYX (Second Body)16 August 2019

Solitary (Dutch Kills Theater Company)16 August 2019

Heroin(e) For Breakfast (King Brilliant Theatre / Richard Jordan Productions in association with Pleasance)16 August 2019

Endless Second (Cut The Cord)16 August 2019

Blood And Gold (Mara Menzies)16 August 2019

Bismillah! An ISIS Tragicomedy (Wound Up Theatre)16 August 2019

Drone (Harry Josephine Giles, Rob Jones, Neil Simpson and Jamie Wardrop)15 August 2019

Deer Woman (Article 11/CanadaHub)15 August 2019

Frankenstein: How To Make A Monster (Battersea Arts Centre and BAC Beatbox Academy)15 August 2019

The Sensemaker (Woman's Move)15 August 2019

Normaler Than Everyone (Normaler Productions in association with Fringe Management, LLC)15 August 2019

Pizza Shop Heroes (Phosphoros Theatre)15 August 2019

Mustard (Eva O'Connor)15 August 2019

Meatball Séance (John Michael/PBH's Free Fringe)15 August 2019

How Not To Drown (Thick Skin, Traverse Theatre production with Tron Theatre, Lawrence Batley Theatre)15 August 2019

Full Consent To Speak On My Behalf (Good Wolf People)15 August 2019

Post-Mortem (Ellandar Productions and Jessica Rose McVay Productions)14 August 2019

Hatch (Rose Eye Productions)14 August 2019

Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum With Expats (Soho Theatre in association with Show and Tell)14 August 2019

My Best Dead Friend (Anya Tate-Manning and Isobel MacKinnon with Zanetti Productions)14 August 2019

Landscape (1989) (Emergency Chorus)14 August 2019

Death By Shakespeare (HurlyBurly)14 August 2019

Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd (Francesca Moody Productions)14 August 2019

Who Is Daniel King (Ed Eales-White)14 August 2019

Kurl Up And Dye (NUTS Theatre)14 August 2019

All of Me (China Plate, Cambridge Junction and The Yard Theatre)14 August 2019

Algorithms (Sadie Clark & Laura Elmes Productions)14 August 2019

The Long Pigs (WE3 and Cluster Arts)13 August 2019

Superstar (Nicola Wren and Something For The Weekend)13 August 2019

Funny In Real Life (Rob Rouse and Helen Rutter)13 August 2019

00 (Argonaut)13 August 2019

Umbrella Man (Teuchter Company - Colin Bramwell)13 August 2019

Square Go (Francesca Moody Productions)13 August 2019

Trying It On (Warwick Arts Centre and China Plate)11 August 2019

Lucy McCormick: Post Popular (Soho Theatre, Johnson & Mackay and United Agents)11 August 2019

Boar (Lewis Doherty, The North Wall and Nottingham Playhouse)11 August 2019

Shit (MILKE and Dee & Cornelius)11 August 2019

Only Bones 1.0 - Thom Monckton (Kallo Collective In Association With Aurora Nova)11 August 2019

Lovely Girls (The Hiccup Project)11 August 2019

Knock Knock (Hot Coals Theatre)11 August 2019

If It Didn't Matter (Cup and Dagger)11 August 2019

The De Nova Super (A Brilliant Everything)11 August 2019

Witch Hunt (A&E Comedy)11 August 2019

Swim (Liz Richardson in association with the Pleasance and HOME)11 August 2019

Standard:Elite (Hidden Track)11 August 2019

Piano_Play (Charlie Russell Productions)11 August 2019

With Child (Claire Pointing)10 August 2019

Leave A Message (Jessica Rose McVay Productions and Bad Thursday)10 August 2019

Ticker (Fight in the Dog in association with United Agents)10 August 2019

HoneyBee (Eleanor Dillon-Reams)10 August 2019

Fix Us (Bareface)10 August 2019

Conversations With Van Gogh (Echoes Theatre)10 August 2019

Blodeuwedd Untold (Jo Blake / Pleasance / Royal & Derngate Northampton)10 August 2019

Between Us (Rachel E Thorn and Alex Keen)10 August 2019

Wrath Of Achilles (Bedivere Arts Company)9 August 2019

Wireless Operator (Silksheen Productions)9 August 2019

Definitely Louise (Bethany Heath)9 August 2019

Collapsible (Ellie Keel Productions and High Tide)9 August 2019

The Red (Corduroy Productions and Something For The Weekend)8 August 2019

Don't Be Terrible (Standard Man Productions)8 August 2019

Monsoon Season (Thieriot Productions and All For One)8 August 2019

Cream Tea And Incest (Peracals Productions)8 August 2019

Birth (Theatre Re in association with Glynis Henderson Productions)8 August 2019

Beach Body Ready (The Roaring Girls, Absolutely Cultured, Pleasance, York Theatre Royal, Hull Truck)8 August 2019

Art Heist (Poltergeist / Untapped by Underbelly and New Diorama Theatre)8 August 2019

Bible John (Bible John and The Pleasance)7 August 2019

America Is Hard To See (Life Jacket Theatre Company)7 August 2019

House Of Hundred (Yesim Ozsoy Galata Perform Tiyatrosu - Turkey)7 August 2019

IvankaPlay (Snowy Owl)7 August 2019

Beep Boop (Crowded Outlet / Something For The Weekend)6 August 2019