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Scottish Ballet: Highland Fling
Matthew Bourne's ballet inspired by La Sylphide, first performed in 1994, returns for a new Scottish tour. We follow the misfortunes of James, a young Scotsman whose taste for the wilder side of life brings him into the company of a strange and beautiful gothic fairy.
Edinburgh Festival Theatre (0.9 miles)
Fri 24 May
£12.50–£42.50 / 0131 529 6000
Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off
Edinburgh People's Theatre present Liz Lochhead's depiction of a contemporary, gutsy and poetic voice of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh (2.2 miles)
Fri 24 May
£10 (£8) / 0131 447 7597
The Professionals on Ice
The ones from Dancing on Ice who do it for a living (and not to boost flagging media careers) show you how it's supposed to be done.
Murrayfield Ice Rink, Edinburgh (3.2 miles)
Fri 24 May
£25 / 0131 337 6933
First Love
Adaptation of an early Beckett novella about a man, cast out from the family home, who hooks up with a woman, with darkly comic consequences.
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh (1.6 miles)
Fri 24 May
£6–£15.50 / 0131 228 1404
Flâneurs
Jenna Watt explores violence in public places by attempting to deconstruct the bystander effect in a work she wrote following a violent attack on her friend in 2010.
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh (1.6 miles)
Fri 24 May
£6–£15.50 / 0131 228 1404
Ghost
Musical based on the Oscar-winning movie about a man trapped between this world and the next who's trying to communicate with his heart-broken girlfriend through a psychic.
The Edinburgh Playhouse (1.0 miles)
Fri 24 May
£15–£45 / 0844 871 3014
The 39 Steps
John Buchan's adventurous spy novel (or Hitchcock's classic film) is adapted into this stage version by Patrick Barlow and features only four actors playing 139 roles between them.
King's Theatre, Edinburgh (1.6 miles)
Fri 24 May
£14–£29.50 (Student standby £10) / 0131 529 6000





