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In Loyal Company will embark on an extensive UK tour this year and make a highly anticipated return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe following a sell-out run in 2018. Based on the incredible true story of Arthur Robinson’s experiences as a Prisoner of War during World War II, this poignant tale of survival and sacrifice... Continue Reading →
Pleasance has announced more than 100 shows which have been added to its Edinburgh line-up. This roster of shows joins the 20 recently announced shows supported by the Pleasance Futures programme, including this year’s winners of the Charlie Hartill Special Theatre Reserve Fund and Comedy Reserve Fund, marking Pleasance’s commitment to nurturing talent and supporting... Continue Reading →
Exchange Theatre return to London this June with their tenth anniversary revival of Jean-Paul Sartre’s rebellious and highly political play The Flies. Sartre’s thriller re-imagines the Greek tragedy of Electra and Orestes, exploring the complexities of human values in a period of political turbulence. A company priding themselves in their international and multi-cultural heritage, Exchange... Continue Reading →
Underbelly has announced 86 new shows joining its Fringe programme. Exploring everything from mental health, millennials’ issues, sibling competition, addiction and current state of politics to dinosaurs, 19th century palaeontology, ancient Troy, novels of Jane Austin, Mary Shelley and Brothers Grimm and, of course, the ultimate quest to find the love of your life, Underbelly’s... Continue Reading →
After the success of their 2018 HighTide: Edinburgh programme, HighTide have now partnered with Assembly to present Disruption, their programme of contemporary new writing exclusively at Assembly Roxy. The six pieces chosen demonstrate HighTide and Assembly Festival’s shared vision for new writing as a space of political, contemporary and provocative work, created by new, diverse... Continue Reading →
Acclaimed theatre company The Wardrobe Ensemble, in co-production with Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Shoreditch Town Hall, will bring the The Scotsman Fringe First Award and The Stage Edinburgh Award winning, smash-hit production Education, Education, Education to London’s West End this summer for a limited run at the Trafalgar Studios. “We in Germany, and Europe,... Continue Reading →
Producers today announced that a stage adaptation by Sean Foley of the classic Ealing Studios comedy The Man in the White Suit, will play a three week season at Theatre Royal Bath, prior to receiving its world premiere at Wyndhams Theatre in preview from September 26 with an opening night of October 8. The production... Continue Reading →
Television star Susan Penhaligon (Bouquet of Barbed Wire, A Fine Romance, Emmerdale) will join the cast of Agatha Christie’s legendary whodunnit as Mrs Boyle this summer as it continues on a major UK tour. Susan Penhaligon will take over the role from Gwyneth Strong (Only Fools and Horses) from 15 July at Malvern Festival Theatre... Continue Reading →
Night of the Living Dead™ Live has announced that it will extend to 8 June, playing a total of nine weeks at Pleasance, London. The first ever UK stage adaptation and the only officially authorised production based on George A. Romero’s cult zombie classic is directed by Benji Sperring (The Toxic Avenger: The Musical; Shock... Continue Reading →
