Tranent Events
What's On Around Tranent
Today to Fri 14 Aug, By Distance closest first.
Summer arrives at Fort Kinnaird with free ocean-inspired family activi
Today to Sat 1 Aug
Fort Kinnaird, Fleming House, 32 Newcraighall Rd, Edinburgh EH15 3RD
Families can enjoy free ocean-inspired fun at Fort Kinnaird this summer, as the centre launches its summer holiday activity programme...
In a Bad Way
Wed 5 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Gilded Balloon Patter House (Blether), 2 Commercial Street, Edinburgh EH6 6JA
Grá is sick. With what, she's not sure. Blood clots, maybe? Foreign Accent Syndrome, possibly? Bum cancer – most definitely; the ginger one...
A Queer Little Murder
Wed 5 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Gilded Balloon Patter House (Coorie), 2 Commercial Street, Edinburgh EH6 6JA
When a dead body is discovered in a small and incredibly queer town, the audience must decide who committed the murder...
Puck Bunnies: A Heated Rivalry Drag Musical Parody
Wed 5 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Gilded Balloon Patter House (Other Yin), 2 Commercial Street, Edinburgh EH6 6JA
Since Heated Rivalry graced our screens, there's been a collective yearning throughout the world...
Stayin’ Alive
Wed 5 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Gilded Balloon Patter House (Blether), 2 Commercial Street, Edinburgh EH6 6JA
Maggie's nan is dead, her therapist is useless, and her sister is threatening to knock her out. Maggie?...
Broke & Fabulous in the 21st Century
Wed 5 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Gilded Balloon Patter House (The Dram), 2 Commercial Street, Edinburgh EH6 6JA
Broke and Fabulous in the 21st Century is an unabashed dramedy about two fabulous best friends, Alex and Petunia, chasing their dreams and navigating...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
How Not to Make it in America
Thu 6 Aug 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...
Jitters
Thu 6 Aug to Mon 17 Aug, Wed 19 Aug to Mon 24 Aug, Wed 26 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Summerhall (Old Lab), 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL
'I've dreamed of this day. My whole life.' There's one hour to go before the wedding, but now the wedding may not be going...
Man or Bear
Thu 6 Aug 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...
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...
They’re Just Small Town (Northern) Lads
Thu 6 Aug to Sun 16 Aug
Summerhall (Anatomy Lecture Theatre), 1 Summerhall EH9 1PL
Boys are shaped by the men around them. So what makes a man? It's Y2K and a teenage boy has been caught between two very different influences:...
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