There are great theatre shows on offer all year round at the King's Theatre and Festival Theatre, Edinburgh.

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Noises Off

Noises Off

18 Sep 2008

REVIVAL Bringing farce to the fore, Michael Frayn’s 80s parody is touring once again, revealing the merry antics of a second-rate theatre company both on and off stage as it struggles with its ludicrous sex comedy, Nothing On. Nestling at the core…

Sunset Song

Sunset Song

4 Sep 2008

Director Kenny Ireland is looking to instil some pride in the nation's literary heritage by bringing Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic tale of community, national identity and sexual awakening back to the stage. Set in an early 20th century farming…

Fleeto

Fleeto

4 Sep 2008

The perceived increase in knife crimes on the streets of Scotland is steadily raising awareness of a deadly culture creeping through the nation's young population. Knives continue to be used only in around eight percent of violent crimes, but it's the…

Blue on Blue

(2 stars)21 Aug 2008

The subject of Afghan ambushes is pushed into the realm of cliché in this three-hander. Suffering after a possible friendly-fire incident, an American servicewoman shacks up with a Mujahedin rebel. An engaging performance from Arran Shanti fail to…

Shafted

(1 star)21 Aug 2008

Three men with motives for murder are trapped in a lift. As the lights flicker out, one succumbs to a macabre death in a straightforward thriller that even Stephen King would struggle to twist to life. Two valiant performances are dwarfed an almost…

The Factory

The Factory

Vivid Holocaust journey

(4 stars)21 Aug 2008

'They came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.' Attributed to Martin Niemöller, this sentiment comes to mind during Badac Theatre's disturbing and compelling reconstruction of the death journey of so many of Hitler's final…

The Lie-in, the Itch and the Whore's Robe

The Lie-in, the Itch and the Whore's Robe

Ikea-style physical theatre

(2 stars)21 Aug 2008

This comment on the consumerist ideology that holds us all together like a gargantuan supermarket carrier bag, imparts the notion of an overly ordered life with a fairly diverting blend of dance and rhyme. As a shrieking, nagging housewife coerces her…

Britt Ekland: Britt on Britt

Britt Ekland: Britt on Britt

A Swedish sexagenarian’s exploits

(4 stars)14 Aug 2008

‘Who is Britt Ekland?’ So the former Bond girl and one-time wife of Peter Sellers begins her frank and surprisingly funny whistle stop tour of her enchantingly colourful life. Offering glimpses of the young starlet who entranced the likes of Rod Stewart…

Three Flying Solo

(3 stars)14 Aug 2008

One of three new plays under the ‘Flying Solo’ banner, Annie George’s Noor evokes striking and vivid images in an intimate autobiographical journey. Charting the details of a tempestuous relationship, Noor narrates her miscarriage and despair, each…

Wanderlust

(3 stars)14 Aug 2008

Sometimes a performance is only as good as the audience that’s watching. This has never been more true than in Wanderlust, in which ten-foot Fraulein Hilda narrates her surreal life story. From her lowly (geddit?) roots, be-stilted Hilda weaves her…

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