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The Roseberry Trio
North-east Fife musicians Alasdair Hill, Kirsty Howe and Janice Gibson formed The Roseberry Trio in 2012 to explore the delightful combination of oboe, horn and piano. Their programme includes works by Blanc and Reinecke as well as an arrangement of Mozart's quintet for horn and strings. The musicians are looking…
St Andrew's and St George's West Church, Edinburgh
Mon 12 Aug
Rumstick Road
A video reconstruction of the landmark 1977 production Rumstick Road which combined audio taped conversations, family letters, dance, 35mm slides and the writing of Mary Baker Eddy to construct a response to the suicide of Spalding Gray’s mother. 'A brilliant and engrossing work; one whose abstraction and complexity…
Inspace, Edinburgh
Sat 10 Aug
£4 / 0131 473 2000
Part of Edinburgh International Festival. Part of Selections from the Wooster Group Archive.
The School of Night's Spontaneous Shakespeare
Extempore Theatre - Festival Highlights. Shakespeare as you've never seen it before: made up on the spot! Award-winning disciples of theatre maverick Ken Campbell return. 'Uproarious, intelligent, laugh-a-minute fare' ★★★★ (Telegraph). From team behind smash-hit The Showstoppers! 'Hilarious! The Bard has never been…
Gilded Balloon Teviot, Edinburgh
Wed 14 Aug
Thu 15 Aug
Fri 16 Aug
Scott Ward: A Celebration
A tribute to Scott Ward. Earlier this year the Scottish film and television community was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of much-loved cinematographer/lighting cameraman Scott Ward. As well as forging a successful, award-winning career behind the camera, Scott spent ten years working as Animation Programmer at…
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Sun 23 Jun
Shorts: Bridging the Gap
Four new short documentaries from four corners of Scotland. These films will take you to the places you haven’t been before - from a Glasgow lab where a scientist is attempting the impossible to the ‘American plains’ just outside Aberdeen, where Buffalos roam; to the small respite house in Edinburgh where people are…
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Sat 22 Jun
Shorts: Interrogation, Rebellion, Subversion
A teeming mass of images that explode and expose global systems and structures of power. A roving manifesto that employs the filmic medium as a conductor through which to creatively interrogate the ecological, social and political implications of consumerism, power structures, freedom and art. This is provocative…
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Fri 28 Jun
Shorts: Suburban Light
Amidst the rhythms of life and between the cracks of society, what eccentric and unusual characters exist? How do physical space and the individual amalgamate and influence one another? Addressing this question through a focus on juxtapositions, patterns and textures (variously physical, emotional or architectural) we…
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Sun 23 Jun
The Sloans Project
Originating from Glasgow's Sloans Bar, this site-specific, promenade opera vividly captures the emotional life of a pub. The audience encounters a series of vignettes as they explore the stunning, period Scottish Arts Club. Comic and moving moments powerfully revealed through soaring composition, witty writing and…
Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh
Sun 18 Aug
Solo Performance of Bharatanatyam by Ashwini Ramaswamy
Ashwini Ramaswamy. A soloist with renowned company Ragamala Dance (called 'excellent' and 'moving' by the New York Times), Ashwini Ramaswamy has performed at venues throughout the world. At this year's Festival of Spirituality and Peace, Ashwini will present a body of choreography taught to her by Ragamala's Artistic…
St John's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh
Sat 24 Aug
The Tempest
n6 productions returns to the Fringe with their stripped back, claustrophobic production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Featuring live music, singing and dancing, this famous struggle for power and control is played out on an intimate stage where the cast explores the darker side of the Bard’s last masterpiece. At its…
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh
Mon 19 Aug
Tue 20 Aug
Wed 21 Aug
Three Half Pints
The Three Half Pints are a family friendly slapstick comedy group. Expect a high energy foray into the lives of three shorter than average brothers, Dick, Derek and Ernie as they slip, trip and tumble through a world that's just too big for them. Suitable for ages 5+. 'The Three Half Pints dazzle with well executed Monty…
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh
Mon 12 Aug
Tue 13 Aug
Wed 14 Aug
Three Sisters (San Zimei)
- 2012
- France/Hong Kong
- 153 min
- Directed by: Bing Wang
Three young sisters grow up without much parental interference in this quiet film about childhood resilience.
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Sat 29 Jun
Traffic Department (Drogówka)
- 2013
- Poland
- 118 min
- Directed by: Wojciech Smarzowski
- Cast: Bartlomiej Topa, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Julia Kijowska
A workplace lifestyle of daily debauchery is disrupted by murder. In a police department where alcohol, drugs, sex and bribery are the norm, one policeman doesn’t know where to turn when he is falsely accused of murdering a fellow officer. Lightning fast editing crams enough plot developments to fill a mini series into…
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
Sun 30 Jun
Trash Cuisine
- Directed by: Nicolai Khalezin
- Written by: Belarus Free Theatre
Belarus Free Theatre presents a thought-provoking and often disturbing drama which questions the use of capital punishment and recounts real-life stories told by executioners, human rights lawyers and prison inmates. Contains nudity.
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
Mon 19 Aug
£12–£15 (£10–£13) / 0131 556 6550
Tue 20 Aug
£12–£15 (£10–£13) / 0131 556 6550
Wed 21 Aug
£12–£15 (£10–£13) / 0131 556 6550
Twelfth Night: Unplugged
The American High School Theatre Festival. Twelfth Night: Unplugged, comes straight from the American South with live music and verse. This madcap comedy features seven talented Memphis girls playing all your favourite Twelfth Night characters. From Viola to Malvolio and Sir Toby, you'll hear a classic story as well as…
Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh
Mon 5 Aug
Tue 6 Aug
Twins
In affiliation with The Invisible Dot, Twins is a double act starring Jack Barry, ‘a future in comedy’ (Chortle.co.uk), and Annie McGrath, ‘beautiful timing and spot-on delivery’ (Tab, Cambridge). Their debut show is a combination of sketches and talking, which sometimes meet in the middle. Their friends are really…
Wilkie House Upstairs, Edinburgh
Sat 3 Aug
Sun 4 Aug
Mon 5 Aug
Van Buren and Gandey's Victorian Wonders Carnival
Festival family entertainment. Enter a true flight of fantasy as we recreate illusions of yesteryear; see the living head of Scheherazade, precariously balanced on the sword used to decapitate her! The sad tale of a movie starlet separated from her head at an early age, whose body is kept alive for your amusement and…
St Andrew Square, Edinburgh
Fri 2 Aug
£6 / 0131 226 0000
Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Sat 3 Aug
£6 / 0131 226 0000
Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Sun 4 Aug
£6 / 0131 226 0000
Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The Various Lives of Infinite Nullity
Stumbling drenched yet thirsty through a landscape of pub snugs and human bicycles, a trio of nameless vagabonds meet blasphemous underwater saints and De Selby’s famous scientific experiments, The Dilution of Water and Annihilation of the Atmosphere at the Vico Swimming Club. Lying in the cosmos and looking down at…
Summerhall, Edinburgh
Fri 2 Aug
Sat 3 Aug
Sun 4 Aug
The Way You Tell Them
Rachel Mars has always relied on humour. But what would happen if she couldn't fall back on laughter? Turning the spotlight on the inner workings of comedy, The Way You Tell Them interrogates the desire and - sometimes uncontrollable - compulsion to be funny. Using real-life material, classic oral sex jokes and a wolf…
Summerhall, Edinburgh
Mon 19 Aug
Anatomy Lecture Theatre
Free / 0131 226 0000
Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
- 15:30 – 16:30
Wed 21 Aug
Anatomy Lecture Theatre
Free / 0131 226 0000
Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
- 15:30 – 16:30
Fri 23 Aug
Anatomy Lecture Theatre
Free / 0131 226 0000
Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
- 15:30 – 16:30
The Wedge
When I was a kid, this was all my kingdom. A compelling urban thriller delivered starkly, simply and close-up by one young woman. ‘Arrestingly ambiguous theatre.’ – New Statesman. Rhythmic language, vibrant imagery, bold physicality and a complex, tightly woven narrative combine in a haunting tale of love and lost…
Zoo Southside, Edinburgh
Fri 2 Aug
Sat 3 Aug
Sun 4 Aug
Wee Rascals Cinema and Ceilidh
Brave Film Showing and Kiddie Ceilidh. Make a day of it with the Wee Rascals Club showing Scottish film Brave followed by a ceilidh just for kids. Tickets include a buffet lunch of haggis, neeps and tatties. Perfect for all ages! Ages 2-14.
Ghillie Dhu, Edinburgh
Sat 10 Aug
Sat 31 Aug
"10"
- 2013
- Germany
- 65 min
- Directed by: Telemach Wiesinger
A documentary film poem, a travelogue, a twin town odyssey across the world. Armed with his 16mm camera, Wiesinger travelled to the sister cities of his German hometown Freiburg, collecting images from France, Spain, England, Austria, Iran, Ukraine, USA, Japan, Italy and the Black Forest. These fragments are brought…
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Sun 30 Jun
10 Films with My Dad
How do fathers and sons communicate? Sports? Cars? For Aidan and his dad it was films. Join Aidan as he shows how two men learnt to communicate with help from the silver screen. 'One of the most happy, optimistic and charming shows you'll see at the Fringe' ★★★★★ (FringeGuru.com). 'Ooooo what a lovely little show.
The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh
Sat 3 Aug
Sun 4 Aug
Mon 5 Aug
101 Liaisons
Horologe. Courtly French versus earthy English, period instrument ensemble Horologe present two programmes of Baroque love and loss, with dramatised songs and instrumental music by Clérambault, Rameau, Lawes, Hayes, Purcell and others. This was music written for performance in patron's homes in their private chambers…
St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh
Sun 4 Aug
Mon 5 Aug
Tue 6 Aug
15 Minutes
The Pelican's Briefs Theatre Company. Rundown scholar Marshall arrives in the birthplace of a beautiful international film star, to interview a friend on the nature of celebrity for an upcoming book. On his first night there he falls from a balcony on to his face… at the exact same time the beautiful film star dies in…
C aquila, Edinburgh
Sat 3 Aug
studio
£8.50 (£6.50; Seniors £6.50; Students £6.50) / 0131 226 0000
Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Sun 4 Aug
studio
£8.50 (£6.50; Seniors £6.50; Students £6.50) / 0131 226 0000
Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Mon 5 Aug
studio
£8.50 (£6.50; Seniors £6.50; Students £6.50) / 0131 226 0000
2 for 1 Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.





