EH8 Events
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Today to Mon 2 Aug 27, By Distance closest first.
The Sixteen's Choral Workshop for Wellbeing 2026: Edinburgh
Sun 18 Oct
Binks Hall, Charteris Centre, 138-140 The Pleasance EH8 9RR
The Sixteen’s Choral Workshops for Wellbeing are a fun and engaging way to explore a variety of music inspired by The Sixteen’s own performances...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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!...
LAGB 2026 Annual Meeting
Wed 9 Sep
Dugald Steward Building DSB 3.10/3.11, 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AD
The Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) Annual Conference 2026 brings together linguists from across the UK and beyond for peer-reviewed...
Patient 13
Fri 7 Aug to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Mon 24 Aug, Wed 26 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Zoo (Playground 2), High School Yards, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
'I got rid of all the toxic people and there was no one left.' Gail is good at setting boundaries and staying busy until a scary...
This Is How I Got Arrested (after smuggling drugs across the border bu
Fri 7 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
ZOO (Playground 3), High School Yard, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
This Is How I Got Arrested (after smuggling drugs across the border but never actually getting caught with any drugs) is a tightly structured, fourth...
Argonauts
Fri 7 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
ZOO (Playground 2), High School Yard, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
Opinions are weapons. Friendship is the casualty. Liz and Sam host a theatre podcast. When Sam champions a radical new production, Liz's fury...
15 Minutes of Shame
Fri 7 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
ZOO (Playground 2), High School Yard, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
Why not do OnlyFans? Plunge into the desperate world of a young London couple facing the brutal reality of financial struggle...
I Bought a Flip Phone
Fri 7 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
ZOO (Playground 2), High School Yard EH1 1LZ
Charlie's sick of his iPhone. His best friend never replies, his mum nags him and everyone else's life looks better than his own...
A Costume Drama
Fri 7 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
ZOO (Playground 3), High School Yard, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
With the 2026 Mascot Grand National rapidly approaching and her shell-suit sporting dad indisposed, reluctant Ella must fill Eddie The Egg's...
Racists, Recessions & Revolutions
Fri 7 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
ZOO (Playground 3), High School Yard, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
In 2016 an unprecedented wave of fake news exploded across our screens. Public trust was devastated as Brexit, Trump and an ever-powerful far right...
Father, Away She Goes
Fri 7 Aug to Tue 18 Aug, Thu 20 Aug to Tue 25 Aug, Thu 27 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Zoo (Playground 1), High School Yard, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
Introducing Sarah Jones – 'A masterclass in the love-to-hate character. Think Succession. Think Fleabag, with teeth' (Scotsman)...
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...
Tale of the Firebird
Thu 6 Aug to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Sun 23 Aug, Tue 25 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Assembly Roxy (Central), 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh EH8 9SU
Classical precision meets circus adrenaline in this genre-bending re-imagining of a violin concerto composed by Chloé Charody for The Freestyle...
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