Helensburgh Events
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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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Long Way Home
Wed 5 Aug to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Sun 23 Aug, Tue 25 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Gilded Balloon (Snug), 3 Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH8 9ND
Layla, an Iranian refugee, escapes war and rebuilds herself in American television. But when her dream begins to fracture, the past she once fled...
Glass Child
Thu 6 Aug to Sun 16 Aug
Summerhall (Old Lab) 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL
Powerful, raw and emotional, Glass Child goes beyond fiction and theatre to showcase the extraordinary love of two siblings, Kayah, a young man with...
The Trials of Magnus Coffinkey
Thu 6 Aug to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Sun 23 Aug, Tue 25 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Summerhall (Red Lecture), 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL
A broken fairy tale for broken people. In a whimsical land of broken toys, Magnus Coffinkey must fix a bell atop an impossibly high spire...
TOAST
Thu 6 Aug to Sun 16 Aug
Summerhall (Dissection Room), 1 Summerhall EH9 1PL
A dark and unrelenting comedy about starving for your art. As negotiations with employers, agents and Universal Credit crumble, one actor drags you...
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