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Pilrig Park: The American Dream (26 Jun)

Local arts-specialist school Pilrig Park presents its latest show, which almost every child has contributed to in some way, from dancing to costumes.

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2008: Macbeth
Date	Location
Set in a contemporary and brutal Middle Eastern conflict, TR Warszawa's 2008: Macbeth is unflinching in its depiction of the machine of violence that, once set in motion, works faster and ever more efficiently. With spectacular pyrotechnics, immersive video effects and an extraordinary, layered soundscape that plays tricks on the ear, Shakespeare’s web of politics, ambition and the supernatural is transformed into a contemporary, and highly physical, theatrical film. Supported by Adam… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
11 Aug–18 Aug Mon 7.30–9.40pm; Wed 2–4.10pm; Thu–Sun 7.30–9.40pm	Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh

Allotment
Date	Location
Meet two green-fingered sisters among the plants for a cuppa, a homemade scone and a major dose of sibling rivalry as Edinburgh company Nutshell returns with its darkly funny Fringe First award winner. The show is performed on real allotments, whatever the weather, so come prepared! View full details and ticket info
8 Jun Fri 2pm, 5pm & 7pm Booking via Paisley Arts Centre.	Brediland Allotments, Paisley

Animal Olympics
Date	Location
Find out which of your favourite animals is best suited to which sport in this quirky tale. Ages 3–7. Part of Plu Festival. View full details
1 Jun 4pm	Leith Links, Edinburgh

Antigone
Date	Location
Emanuel Theatre Company. Atmospheric reworking of the Sophocles classic by a student/graduate company from Emanuel School. In the air raid shelter in 1943 the nightly residents are welcomed by the wardens and gather to hear the tale of Antigone, a self-willed little beast, who defies her uncle Creon and buries her brother. Antigone must be put to death, with awful consequences for those around her. The Jean Anouilh classic has been reinvented as a tense, energetic tragedy presented by a… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
3 Aug–11 Aug Wed–Sat 1.45–2.45pm	theSpaces on the Mile, Edinburgh
6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 1.45–2.45pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	theSpaces on the Mile, Edinburgh

The Ash Girl
Date	Location
PULSE. Sin. Passion. Fire. Can one young girl's rage ignite the flame that will lift her from despair? PULSE pose this question in their new and original interpretation of Timberlake Wertenbaker's play. A shockingly dark and visceral twist on the Cinderella fable, which uses powerful imagery, music and movement to examine the psyche of this abused girl. Haunting and poignant; a true living incarnation of Artaudian Theatre of Cruelty. Not for the faint hearted. Ages 14+. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
13 Aug–16 Aug Mon–Thu 11.45am–1.15pm	theSpace @ Venue45, Edinburgh

Beyond Hillsborough
Date	Location
Zipped Up Theatre Company. Twenty three years on, lives lost, families torn apart and brought together by the same tragedy, Hillsborough. Using original interviews with survivors, bereaved family members, politicians, police and journalists we ask, is there hope after Hillsborough? Ages 12+. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 11.40am–12.40pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	Quaker Meeting House, Edinburgh
8 Aug–11 Aug Wed–Sat 11.40am–12.40pm	Quaker Meeting House, Edinburgh

Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut
Date	Location
Of all the theatres in all the world …Morag Fullarton's three-hander contains some of the most iconic scenes and lines ever written. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
13 Sep–15 Sep Thu–Sat 8pm	Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy

Chatroom
Date	Location
GYTC. In cyberspace six teenagers type and chat. What begins as seemingly innocent conversations about the trivial (Harry Potter, Britney Spears) takes a sinister turn as the teenagers, who have never met, turn on and manipulate one another. Through this chilling foundation Enda Walsh explores issues of adolescent vulnerability, the development of persona and the path everyone takes from child to adulthood, in a way that is warm, funny and deeply moving. GYTC return to the Fringe for their… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 5.20–6.10pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	theSpaces on North Bridge, Edinburgh
8 Aug–11 Aug Wed–Sat 5.20–6.10pm	theSpaces on North Bridge, Edinburgh

Cinderella
Date	Location
Johnny McKnight has written this new version of the the fairy tale for this year's Royal Lyceum Christmas show, promising a modern twist on the story with a good sprinkling of magic and slapstick to keep families happy. View full details
29 Nov–29 Dec To be confirmed	Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh

Cleansed
Date	Location
Rummage Theatre / A LEAP Theatre Project. The last Magdalene laundry has closed. Mother Brigid, a lonely old lady sits in a retirement home with her brusque carer. It soon becomes clear their relationship is not what it seems. The laundries were institutions for fallen women who were incarcerated to wash their sins away. How did society fail generations of women by allowing them to be wrongfully imprisoned and brutalised? What has happened to the survivors, victims coping with life in the… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
20 Aug–25 Aug Mon–Sat 3.30–4.35pm	theSpaces on North Bridge, Edinburgh

The Cocktail Party
Date	Location
Theatre Alba's Adult Leisure Group presents a production of TS Eliot's absurdist drawing-room satire. View full details
15 Jun–16 Jun Fri & Sat 7.30–9.30pm	Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh

The Cone Gatherers
Date	Location
Based on the novel by Robin Jenkins, this play examines the relentless struggle between good and evil via the story of two brothers, a hateful gamekeeper and the prejudices of the class system of the 1940s. View full details
23 Oct–27 Oct Tue 7.30pm; Wed 2.30pm & 7.30pm; Thu & Fri 7.30pm; Sat 2.30pm & 7.30pm	King's Theatre, Edinburgh

Desperately Seeking the Exit
Date	Location
Peter Michael Marino / Laughing Horse Free Festival. In 2007, American writer/performer Peter Michael Marino wrote a musical based on the American film Desperately Seeking Susan, featuring the music of Blondie. It opened on London's West End … and closed a month later. Whoops! Desperately Seeking the Exit offers a comical, tell-all, behind-the-scenes peek at how this £4m musical was made and unmade: hatching the idea, the deals with MGM, Debbie Harry and even Madonna, the workshops, the… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
2 Aug–26 Aug Mon–Sun 6–7pm	Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, Edinburgh

The Drawer Boy
Date	Location
Leitheatre presents an award-winning Canadian play about a young actor who visits an Ontario farm in order to research a part. Part of Leith Festival. View full details
8 Jun–11 Jun Mon & Fri–Sun 7.30pm	South Leith Parish Church, Edinburgh

Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Date	Location
The big daddy of arts festivals, the Fringe has it all. The facts and figures speak for themselves: nearly 1.9 million tickets sold in 2011 for 41,689 performances of 2,542 shows in 258 venues. It's the biggest celebration of theatre, comedy, cabaret, children's shows, dance, physical theatre, musicals, operas, exhibitions and music in all its forms in the world. View full details
3 Aug–27 Aug Times vary	Various venues, Edinburgh

Edinburgh International Festival
Date	Location
Bringing world-class arts to the capital since 1947, the EIF sets the standard for classical concerts, opera, dance and theatre, with performers this year drawn from Australia, America, Russia, Japan, Europe and the Middle East. Already announced for 2012 are two innovative adaptations of Shakespeare: TR Warszawa’s 2007: Macbeth and Dmitry Krymov’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (As You Like It). And in Britain's Olypmic summer Edinburgh’s iconic mountain, Arthur’s Seat, is to be spectacularly… View full details and ticket info
9 Aug–2 Sep Times vary	Various venues, Edinburgh

Exit Stage Left
Date	Location
Ecco Theatre Company. Greg Thompson, quite simply, shines! Or rather, he did. Until tragedy struck. After many years in the shadows and desperate for the limelight once again, Greg is making a comeback directing his powerful new play, but at what cost? 'Exit Stage Left is an ambitious and well-conceived work. Greg Thompson's behaviour becomes more fractious and withdrawn as he guides his ramshackle cast of showbiz misfits towards a critically acclaimed opening night. This show is built on… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
3 Aug–4 Aug Fri & Sat 5.20–6.45pm Preview performance.	Greenside, Edinburgh
6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 5.20–6.45pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	Greenside, Edinburgh
8 Aug–18 Aug Mon–Sat 5.20–6.45pm	Greenside, Edinburgh

For the Love of Willie
Date	Location
City of London Freemen's School. This adaptation of Agnes Owens' novel tells the tragic story of Peggy, an ordinary girl in extraordinary times. One day delivering newspapers, the next, her life spiralling out of control. At the heart of the play is Peggy's brief and unexpected affair with her employer, with whom she falls madly in love. Initially imagining that her lover will leave his wife, Peggy is soon abandoned - pregnant, shamed and forced to fall back on her mother who makes… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
13 Aug–18 Aug Mon–Sat 11.30am–12.45pm	Quaker Meeting House, Edinburgh

The Guid Sisters
Date	Location
Martin Bowman and Bill Findlay's Scots translation of the original Québecois play Les Belles-soeurs. When Germaine Luzon wins a competition, she calls on her family, friends and neighbours help her take advantage. A story about women and economic survival in collaboration with National Theatre of Scotland. View full details
20 Sep–13 Oct To be confirmed	Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh

Gulliver's Travels
Date	Location
Irish writer Jonathan Swift’s savage political satire is seen through the eyes of visionary theatre maker Silviu Purcărete with an original score by Irish composer Shaun Davey. Driven by Davey's musical journey, Purcărete's production gathers cultural and social aspects of contemporary society and explores themes of voyage, dream, exile, immigration, emigration, solitude and togetherness. Supported by The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Romania, The Romanian Cultural Institute and… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
17 Aug–20 Aug Mon, Fri & Sat 8–10pm; Sun 2.30–4.30pm & 8–10pm	King's Theatre, Edinburgh

Haunting Julia
Date	Location
A chilling ghost story by Alan Ayckbourn as a father searches for answers to the riddle posed by his musical prodigy of a daughter's mysterious death. Starring Christopher Timothy and Richard O'Callaghan. View full details
9 Oct–13 Oct Tue 7.30pm; Wed 2.30pm & 7.30pm; Thu & Fri 7.30pm; Sat 2.30pm & 7.30pm	King's Theatre, Edinburgh

Him
Date	Location
boothwessel Production Company. He is grumpy, pompous and difficult. A one-time successful writer, long withdrawn from society, he talks to himself and shouts at his computer. From the outside world, a few stubborn characters see beyond the brusque exterior. His nephew, his publisher and even his cleaner all offer lifelines. Then, after 20 years of his publisher's efforts, he wins a prestigious prize for literature meaning worldwide recognition for his work, but can he make the transfer… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
21 Aug–25 Aug Tue–Sat 1.15–2.45pm	theSpaces on the Mile, Edinburgh

Hitler Alone
Date	Location
Paul Webster. This one-man show is an imagined solitary hour of rumination by the Fuehrer before his suicide in the Berlin bunker. It is culled from his own words and historical sources. His thoughts range over his past, present and future in moods that veer from extreme violence to lyricism, jocular reminiscence to brutal rage, touching affection to murderous hate. His themes are world history, the arts, women, Stalin and Churchill, the British Empire, dear friends, total war and the Jews. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
9 Aug–23 Aug Mon–Sun 9.30–10.45pm	Inlingua Edinburgh, Edinburgh

The Idiot at the Wall
Date	Location
Premiere of a new play by Elspeth Turner, performed as the inaugural show from new theatre company FirstBicycle. Modern meets traditional and Gaelic meets English in this tale of myth and reality set on a Hebridean island during World War I. View full details and ticket info
31 May–9 Jun Thu–Sat 7.30pm	The Pleasance, Edinburgh

Karen's Way: A Kindertransport Life
Date	Location
Yellow Leaf Theatre. Based on her autobiographies and poems, Karen Gershon's story, told with unflinching honesty, is one with which few things outside of Ann Frank can compare. Karen's Way is by Vanessa Rosenthal, whose Holocaust play, Exchanges In Bialysdtok, represented the BBC at the European Broadcasting Union in Helsinki. Karen criss-crossed wartime Britain from Edinburgh to Leeds to Bristol and beyond. From trainee Palestine pioneer to chorus girl to Edinburgh student, she went from… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
13 Aug–25 Aug Mon–Sat 3.05–4.25pm	theSpace @ Venue45, Edinburgh

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