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Bedlam Theatre

Bedlam Theatre
11b Bristo Place, Edinburgh, EH1 1EZ

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Bedlam Theatre

Home to the Edinburgh University Theatre Company, Bedlam is the oldest student-run theatre in Britain. We stage a different show every week and offer free workshops on a range of subjects. Please visit our website for the full programme and details on how to get involved!

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35MM: A Musical Exhibition

As Told By & Greenwich Theatre. They say a picture is worth 1000 words, but what about a song? Can a picture inspire a song? How about 15 photos? In 35MM, a series of photographs by acclaimed photographer Matthew Murphy each inspire a song. Unique moments frozen in time, a glimmer of a life unfolding, a glimpse of…

Fri 2 Aug

Sat 3 Aug

Sun 4 Aug

…and 19 more dates

Conversations Not Fit for the American Dinner Table

TongueTied Theatre. Welcome to the United States of America! The place where anything is possible! The land of the free and the home of opportunity, prosperity, guns, Jesus, the uninsured, guns, Elvis, more guns; where corporations are people, and every corporation has a right to the American f*cking dream! Yes…

…and 10 more dates

Fade

Can one moment define your entire life? In this exhilarating new play from acclaimed company DugOut Theatre, a production of Hamlet is disrupted by an unexpected meeting, sending past and present hurtling together in a thrilling exploration of innocence, memory, and the limits of the imagination. Following smash…

Fri 2 Aug

£5 / 0131 226 0000

Preview Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Sat 3 Aug

£5 / 0131 226 0000

Preview Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Sun 4 Aug

£8 (£7) / 0131 226 0000

Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

…and 20 more dates

Four Walls

Sarah awakes in a strange bed awoken by an unruly house. Flatulent slippers are the least of her problems: the grandfather clock and the kettle won’t stop bickering and the mirror is getting on her nerves. When one half of a pair of gloves is delivered to the house, Sarah is compelled to search the house for the…

Fri 2 Aug

£4 (£3) / 0131 226 0000

Preview Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Sat 3 Aug

£4 (£3) / 0131 226 0000

Preview Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Sun 4 Aug

£4 (£3) / 0131 226 0000

Preview Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

…and 18 more dates

The Improverts

Edinburgh University Theatre Company. Always different, always funny. Edinburgh's resident improvised comedy troupe is back behind Bedlam Theatre's big red doors. It's their 24th Fringe run - so really, they never left. Each night a dynamic combination of players take to the stage for another round of spontaneous…

Fri 2 Aug

Sat 3 Aug

£6.50 (£5) / 0131 226 0000

Preview

Mon 5 Aug

…and 17 more dates
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Party Piece

Four good friends. One last party. One last chance to get more f*cked than the time before! A dangerous, funny, tragic, and honest look beneath the surface as they realise it’s time to get out and grow up. Produced by the New Wolsey Theatre, written by Rob Salmon and performed by the New Wolsey Young Associates…

Fri 2 Aug

£5 / 0131 226 0000

Preview Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Sat 3 Aug

£5 / 0131 226 0000

Preview Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Sun 4 Aug

£8 (£7) / 0131 226 0000

Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

…and 19 more dates
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Sam Rose in the Shadows

Tucked In Productions and Greenwich Theatre. Sam Rose carries a heavy box. A sad thing box. A magical new play for anyone who has ever felt sad but now feels a little bit better. Told through playful visual theatre, delicate puppetry and memorable music. Created by Tucked In (Tim and Light, The Golden Cowpat…

Fri 2 Aug

£6 (£5) / 0131 226 0000

Preview

Sat 3 Aug

£6 (£5) / 0131 226 0000

Preview

Sun 4 Aug

…and 19 more dates

Sentinels

Nelson’s got vertigo, Eros has been interfered with, the Cerne Giant worries about his manhood and Old Flo is being sold off. Now is really not a good time to be a statue. Whole armies of them are set to look perpetually out to sea and get swamped by the raging oceans. Huge pregnant women raise words to the sky.

Mon 5 Aug

£9 (£7) / 0131 226 0000

2 for 1 Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Tue 6 Aug

£9 (£7) / 0131 226 0000

2 for 1 Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Wed 7 Aug

£9 (£7) / 0131 226 0000

Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

…and 4 more dates

Superhero Snail Boy

Calling all superheroes … both little and large. Superhero Snail Boy shows that even the smallest of superheroes can grow to be bigger than their fears. In a place where hope grows in the form of enormous flowers and breakthroughs are found in the smashing of plates, parents are parented by the wisdom of the young…

Fri 2 Aug

£5 / 0131 226 0000

Preview Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Sat 3 Aug

£5 / 0131 226 0000

Preview Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Mon 5 Aug

£9 (£7) / 0131 226 0000

2 for 1 Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

…and 17 more dates

Titus Andronicus: An All-female Production

A vibrant and visceral retelling of Shakespeare's bloodiest, most underrated tragedy, uncompromisingly wrought by an award-winning, groundbreaking all-female Shakespeare troupe. Two families intertwine in a brutally farcical tale of revenge. Fast, fresh, furious … and funny.

Fri 2 Aug

£7 (£5) / 0131 226 0000

Preview Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Sat 3 Aug

£7 (£5) / 0131 226 0000

Preview Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Sun 4 Aug

£9 (£7) / 0131 226 0000

Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

…and 20 more dates

Track 3

Theatre Movement Bazaar and Greenwich Theatre. Direct from Los Angeles, Theatre Movement Bazaar dramatically derails Chekhov's Three Sisters from its Victorian origins with exhilarating movement, dance, song and humour, setting the itinerary for a 21st-century existential extravaganza. 'There is hardly a moment to…

Sun 4 Aug

£10 (Children £8; Students £8) / 0131 226 0000

Mon 5 Aug

£10 (Children £8; Students £8) / 0131 226 0000

Tue 6 Aug

£10 (Children £8; Students £8) / 0131 226 0000

…and 18 more dates

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