Edinburgh Events
Costume Couture: Sixty Years of Cosprop
Today to Tue 15 Sep
Dovecot Studios, 10 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh EH1 1LT
‘We entered Cosprop as ourselves and walked out as the person we were playing.’ – Helena Bonham Carter
Founded by Oscar and BAFTA-winning costume...
The Ladyboys of Bangkok Full Moon Edinburgh
Today to Sun 23 Aug
Festival Square, Lothian Road EH3 9SU
Step into the dazzling glow of the Full Moon — where glamour meets illusion and every heartbeat dances to the rhythm of the tropics!...
Helen Bradley: Painter and Storyteller
Wed 5 Aug to Tue 18 Aug, Thu 20 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (Cellar), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
This is the sixth painter play that Kara Wilson has written, where she portrays the artist at work and completes an oil painting in her style during...
Rockpools
Wed 5 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (Bunker 3), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
Rockpools is a darkly funny, one-woman play about hoarding, loss and endometriosis. The Woman is unhappily married and harbouring a huge secret...
Giraffe
Wed 5 Aug to Fri 14 Aug, Sun 16 Aug to Mon 24 Aug, Wed 26 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (Cellar), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
Eliana's always felt different – and not in a cute way. In fact, she's grown up with a dark secret: she's almost definitely a...
The Librarians: A Very Serious Comedy!
Wed 5 Aug to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Sun 23 Aug, Tue 25 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (Pleasance Two), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
The staff at Plumstanton Library are clinging to tradition as the shelves collapse around them. The roof leaks, the stacks are bare and they haven’t...
The Second Best School Shooting
Wed 5 Aug to Tue 11 Aug, Thu 13 Aug to Tue 18 Aug, Thu 20 Aug to Tue 25 Aug, Thu 27 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (Baby Grand), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
Two best friends struggle to process surviving a school shooting that is overshadowed by a much worse school shooting on the same day...
NewsRevue
Wed 5 Aug to Tue 18 Aug, Thu 20 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (Pleasance One), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
Guinness World Record-breaking NewsRevue (47 years!), makes its debut in Pleasance One. If the news has got you down, this is your antidote...
Forget About Me
Wed 5 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (Bunker 2), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
In a remote, north-east village, something lurks in the bathroom: something Dylan struggles to remember, which even his dad's deadly DIY skills...
Reparations
Wed 5 Aug to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Sun 23 Aug, Tue 25 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (Above), 60 The Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
After serving three years in prison, Aisha sets out on a journey of self-healing, determined to cure her shoplifting addiction and leave old habits...
To Do Lists
Wed 5 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (The Green), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
'No one is coming to save you. Except yourself.' Ever since she can remember, Amy has written a to do list...
Heart Beats Strong
Wed 5 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (Bunker 2), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
An antidote to the crisis of masculinity we're having in our culture, but make it funny and dance-y and a little bit silly...
Target Audience
Wed 5 Aug to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (Above), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
A TV production company gets word from Whitehall that they must adapt their programming to align with the government's new policy to rapidly...
Big Stuff
Wed 5 Aug to Mon 10 Aug, Wed 12 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Assembly (Roxy Boxy), 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh EH8 9SU
Acclaimed Canadian Second City comedy duo, Matt Baram and Naomi Snieckus, directed by genius collaborator Kat Sandler, bring their signature mix of...
Georgina Thomas: Hysterical Soprano
Wed 5 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Underbelly Bristo Square (Dexter), Bristo Place, Edinburgh EH8 9YL
Some might say Georgina is a narcissist, but she prefers the term Soprano. Trapped in the echo chamber of her own vibrato, Georgina is forced to...
Operotica: Lovers in Every Lifetime
Wed 5 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Underbelly Bristo Square (Dairy Room), Bristo Place EH8 9YL
Operotica: The UK's premier kinky opera duo. Classically trained, fetish-approved and, as of yesterday, dead...
Remember, Remember!
Wed 5 Aug to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Sun 23 Aug, Tue 25 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Pleasance Dome (Queen Dome), Bristo Square, Edinburgh, A EH8 9
Gather around the bonfire, girlies. You think you know the story of the Gunpowder Plot? You don't!...
Sanctuary
Wed 5 Aug to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Pleasance Dome (Ace Dome), Bristo Square, Edinburgh, A EH8 9
Sanctuary, the debut play from Jacob Sparrow, is the winner of the inaugural Leodis Prize, a new playwriting competition...
Tap Out! (Or I'll Hit You Again)
Wed 5 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Gilded Balloon Patter House (The Coorie), 3 Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1HT
Realising that his life is going nowhere, a man decides to go out in a mask and pick fights with random people on the street...
Copycat
Wed 5 Aug to Tue 11 Aug, Thu 13 Aug to Tue 18 Aug, Thu 20 Aug to Tue 25 Aug, Thu 27 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Pleasance Dome (Jack Dome), 2 Bristo Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AL
'This technology is being pushed on us at a time when the world is moving towards authoritarianism' (Geoffrey Hinton)...
Overtone
Wed 5 Aug to Tue 11 Aug, Thu 13 Aug to Tue 18 Aug, Thu 20 Aug to Tue 25 Aug, Thu 27 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Pleasance (Jack Dome), 1 Bristo Square, Edinburgh EH8 9AL
When two teenagers meet after choir practice, they begin the most important relationship of their lives...
Learning to Human
Wed 5 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Gilded Balloon Teviot (Wee Room), 13 Bristo Square EH8 9AJ
Award-winning solo show. Join US comic actor Sims Holland on her Edinburgh debut as she recounts her rollercoaster journey from the depths of...
Spin Cycle
Wed 5 Aug to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Underbelly (Clover), Bristo Square, Edinburgh EH8 9AG
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets The L Word in this bittersweet, absurdist launderette meet-cute. Eyes lock. Hearts thump. Palms sweat...
REDACTED: The Cover-Up of a Cover-Up of a Cover-Up
Wed 5 Aug to Tue 11 Aug, Thu 13 Aug to Tue 18 Aug, Thu 20 Aug to Sun 23 Aug, Tue 25 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Pleasance Dome (King Dome), Bristo Square, Edinburgh EH8 9AG
Fargo meets The Matrix meets The Office in this high-octane, darkly comic thriller. It's 1973. Marnie Makowski arrives in New Mexico, searching...
One Hour Wedding
Wed 5 Aug to Mon 17 Aug, Wed 19 Aug to Sun 23 Aug
Underbelly (The Friesian), Bristo Square, Edinburgh EH8 9AG
Forget the presents – your presence is required. One Hour Wedding is a high-stakes, crowd-built ceremony where the audience are wedding planners and...
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