Edinburgh International Festival

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La Reprise: Histoire(s) du théâtre (I)
Edinburgh International Festival

Ben Reiss 08/08/2019 2918

In 2012 in Liège, Ihsane Jarfi was brutally and senselessly murdered. La Reprise: Histoire(s) du théâtre (I) positions itself as...

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The End of Eddy

Luke Davies 25/08/2018 2294

The End of Eddy is a coming of age, autobiographical gay narrative written by the French author Edouard Louis and...

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Midsummer

Luke Davies 25/08/2018 9332

Midsummer is a 2008 play written by David Grieg, revised here for the Edinburgh International Festival in a production directed...

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La Maladie de la Mort

Luke Davies 25/08/2018 2246

La Maladie de la Mort is another collaboration between the playwright Alice Birch and the director Katie Mitchell – perhaps...

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Waiting for Godot

Ben Reiss 07/08/2018 4676

Samuel Beckett’s transformational and radical play, Waiting for Godot, is a key part of the global theatrical canon.  Performed countless...

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Meet me at Dawn

Marine Furet 14/08/2017 4104

In this rewriting of the Greek myth of Eurydice and Orpheus, the poet who attempted to bring the woman he loved back from the dead...

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Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid

Marine Furet 14/08/2017 3139

Meow Meow turns The Hub into her glittery, shimmery palace in this rowdy cabaret version of The Little Mermaid...

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Rhinoceros

Marine Furet 12/08/2017 11093

With this new production of Rhinoceros, Zinnie Harris and Turkish director Murat Daltaban reaffirm the political potency of Ionesco’s fable...

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Richard III

Luke Davies 29/08/2016 3421

arl Marx famously opined that it is not people’s consciousness that determines their existence but their social existence that determines...

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Scottish Ballet

Pauline Flannery 23/08/2016 2818

cottish Ballet’s double bill of UK premieres at the Edinburgh International Festival offers two brooding, uncompromising contemporary pieces. First is...