Listings: Theatre, free events

A site-specific performance about domestic abuse staged in a residential house. Our Glass House involves moments of fantasy, choreography and song, and is a promenade piece, encouraging audience to make their own journeys. The performance text is based on interviews we have carried out with men and women who have…

Aspiring actors audition for an exclusive place in the Conservatory's comprehensive and demanding training programmes. Audition will be used for admission as well as scholarship consideration. Please prepare two one-minute monologues.

Walks - 7th, 10th, 14th, 17th, 21st, 24th Aug. Talks - 5th, 12th, 19th Aug. If all the world's a stage and we want to change the world, what does it mean for the stage? BiDiNG TiME - an experiment to share a story around the world and make theatre, acting locally / sharing globally. Thyme is a young woman looking…

Two actors. One musician. Forty-four characters. Captain Morgan and First Mate Hammond quest for secrets of time-travel in a rip-roaring adventure comedy with monsters, sword fights and shivered timbers. Featured on BBC Radio, Tap Tap Theatre presents a whirlwind of adventure and avarice, hilarity and heroics, as two…

Scary Little Girls / PBH’s Free Fringe - Join Monika de Plume (glamour puss, academic, thespian) and her assistant Non (dog's body, ensemble cast, backstage crew), for a romp round the nation's favourite literary sisters! A mixture of comedy and music, ‘works billiantly on every level!’ (Brighton Fringe). Be you a…

Ghost Stories with one of the finest traditional storytellers living in Scotland. As darkness descends, join storyteller and musician Marion Kenny for spine chilling supernatural tales in one of Edinburgh's most atmospheric venues. The Demonstration Room situated in the Old veterinary college at Summerhall has its…

Katy, Tom and Jon pay tribute to the best film of all time in their own special way: with original songs, cardboard props and lots of love. Watch them sing, slime and bust their way through a one-hour interactive tribute to everyone's favourite 80s classic. Think Reduced Shakespeare Company meets Be Kind, Rewind.

It is a rollicking hour that takes in comedy, magic, improvisation, a banjo, storytelling and even some puppetry. Paddy's is not your normal stand-up. What it is, is entertaining and a hell of a lot of fun.

Irresponsible Decorators Theatre Company / Free Festival. 76 Million People and Me is the story of four 20th-century dictators: Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Mao Zedong and Pol Pot, stuck on a rowing boat to hell. Their conversations lurch from national anthems to the finer points of genocide, while taking on fine dining…

Ladies and gentlemen and those of you not so defined, the end of the world is nigh. Too late. Boom! After Tales From A Cabaret and the TO&ST award-nominated An Hour Long Sinister Wink, join us, The Creative Martyrs: ukulele-plucking, kazoo-humming, cello-strumming, storytelling, singing and dancing vaudevillian…

The escapades of an unknown 50-year-old British/Irish Arab, who happened to meet many characters along his path in life, from the rich, powerful and famous to those who actually make life interesting. A meandering journey with no direction other than the hedonistic love of sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll until the age of…

Disaster in the Arctic. Only the Captain survives. Should he die with his men, or return home? Hero or coward? A gripping play echoing the tales of Shackleton and Franklin, following the plight of a Captain and his crew as they hunt for the elusive Northwest Passage. Captivating new writing from Chichester Festival…

Back for its third year, Aurora Winterborn's Candid Cabaret promises to treat you to another ‘veritable smorgasbord of Fringe performances’ ★★★★ (ThreeWeeks), featuring the finest burlesque, comedy, magic and much more from around the world! ★★★★★ (BroadwayBaby.com)

The New Euripides Group uses music, dance, and text to tell the gripping story of The Bacchantes and Greek God Dionysus. This site-specific adaptation of The Bacchae cuts right to the bone of the classic Greek tale: Dionysus, enraged beyond compare, seeks revenge on the city of Thebes. With him are The Bacchantes…

Bjorn Borg once epitomised tennis cool. He was everything Jamie and his brother wanted to be. Then John McEnroe came along in 1980 and Jamie was beaten. 33 years of torment and self-questioning later. Is Jamie ready to face his greatest opponent? Beating McEnroe is about rivalry and love, how they can better us and…

Bjorn Borg once epitomised tennis cool. He was everything Jamie and his brother wanted to be. Then John McEnroe came along in 1980 and Jamie was beaten. 33 years of torment and self-questioning later. Is Jamie ready to face his greatest opponent? Beating McEnroe is about rivalry and love, how they can better us and…

Liz Crowe / Hix Productions / Escalator East To Edinburgh. Exhibited beyond a red rope barrier, a woman lies in her bed. Bedding Out emerges from the current welfare benefits overhaul, threatening many with poverty and with a propagandist campaign that has seen disability hate crime leap by 50%. Artist /activist Liz…

'I have two Oscars, not one but two'. Bdafs is a powerful one-woman show which takes place on the eve of the 1939 Academy Awards. Davis, upon finding out she will lose the Oscar to Vivien Leigh, leaves the ceremony and begins a journey through her memories. A piercing insight into the struggle of an actress who…

Blaggards. The dirtiest bar in town. The bar where the drinks come cheap and the girls come cheaper, where the music’s loud and the boys grab and if there wasn’t a fight then you probably weren’t there… that bar. But we call it home. When you're running from problems, make sure you don't run into more. This dark…

F.Mary Callan. Dramatic reports from Bible stories: personal encounters, colourful performances. A one-woman show – or more? From bullying to catering crises, refugees to rape victims, age-old human dilemmas with fresh insights, vigorous, challenging, subtle and heart-warming. Mary Callan had been writing scripts and…

Pete Saunders Blues and Burlesque Group. 'Blues and Burlesque is a thoroughly engaging show that gives burlesque a range most other shows aren't even aware of' (ThisIsCabaret.com). Ages 18+.

Young Actors Company / Engineerium. 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring…' except Crispin Cattermole, the Boy Who Lost Christmas. In the year 1940, Crispin wishes an unusual wish - that Christmas had never existed, little does he know the consequences… Accompanied by…

An educational, delicious ramble through the myths and legends surrounding everyone's favourite bevvy! Wish have combed the records, visited the ruins, and tasted an impossible number of beers to bring you this docudramedy based on the life and times of our mistress and our muse … the humble beer. Wish is also…