Johnstone Events
What's On Around Johnstone
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TOAST
Today 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...
Glass Child
Today 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
Today 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...
How Not to Make it in America
Today to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Sun 23 Aug, Tue 25 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Summerhall (Former Gent’s Locker Room), 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL
It's 2001. A naive young Australian actor arrives in New York. One man plays twenty-eight characters in this heartbreakingly funny...
Man or Bear
Today to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Sun 23 Aug, Tue 25 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Summerhall (Red Lecture Theatre), 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL
Man or Bear is a fast-moving, darkly comic new play about fear, friendship and survival inspired by the viral question: Would you rather be alone in...
Tell Me
Fri 7 Aug to Sun 9 Aug, Wed 12 Aug to Sun 16 Aug, Wed 19 Aug to Sun 23 Aug, Wed 26 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Summerhall (Dissection Room), 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL
Two timelines collide in this bold fusion of dance and circus, offering a fresh perspective on HIV. When Grace receives a diagnosis, she is...
Surreally Good
Fri 7 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Summerhall (Former Women’s Locker Room), 1 Summerhall EH9 1PL
Say hello to Scott – the finest Edutainment Officer in the business, a leading expert in overhead animation and lo-fi storytelling, a renowned...
Thermodrama
Fri 7 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Summerhall (Old Lab), 1 Summerhall EH9 1PL
Four people enter a sauna, three walk out. Over an hour, a group of strangers get hotter and hotter. So hot, they start to cook...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
Sanctuary
Today 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!
Today 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!...
Target Audience
Today 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...
Reparations
Today 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...
The Librarians: A Very Serious Comedy!
Today 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
Today 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...
Giraffe
Today 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...
Helen Bradley: Painter and Storyteller
Today 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...
NewsRevue
Today 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...
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