Drama
| 04 August 2009
7–31 August, 8.30pm
Multimedia theatre combining intense dance and powerful projections from award-winning physical theatre company Precarious.
| 04 August 2009
The Barony Bar
7–31 August (not 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29), 3pm
The site-specific experts of Grid Iron turn their local into a theatre to celebrate the barroom stories of Charles Bukowski. Director Ben Harrison works with actors Keith Fleming and Gail Watson and musician David Paul Jones for some boozy drama.
| 04 August 2009
Pleasance Dome
5–30 August (not 17, 24), 5.25pm
Two years ago, Analogue caused a stir with Mile End, a play about a man pushed onto the tracks of the London Underground. Now it turns its attentions to the notorious suicide spot of Beachy Head.
| 04 August 2009
Underbelly
6–30 August (not 17), 9.05
Last year the storytelling company, You Need Me, picked up a clutch of enthusiastic reviews for How It Ended. Now it is back with an exploration of an illicit sexual relationship under Franco's religious dictatorship of the 1950s.
| 04 August 2009
Pleasance Courtyard
7-30 August (not 11, 18), 1.30pm
Scottish company A Moment's Peace revives its acclaimed one-woman play starring Maryam Hamidi who explores a mythical Iran, struggling to come to terms with modernity.
| 04 August 2009
Assembly Hall
6–30 August (not 10, 17, 24), 12pm
A hit in Ireland, this play brings together the voices of public, professionals and inmates with experience of HM Prison Maze, Belfast, site of hunger strikes during the Troubles.
| 04 August 2009
Playhouse
15–16 August, 8pm
From Singapore, TheatreWorks fashions a vision of a Asian migration, building a collage of experiences using live and recorded video and backed by the music of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra.
| 04 August 2009
Assembly Hall
6–31 August, 5.25pm
Calling in from Glasgow's lunchtime series, A Play, a Pie and a Pint, Jon Atli Jonasson's play is a poetic evocation of a sailor's struggle for life at sea. Great performance from Liam Brennan.
| 04 August 2009
Assembly Rooms
22–31 August (not 26), 3.20pm
Fringe regular David Benson, best known for his uncanny imitation of Kenneth Williams, returns in more esoteric mood with a one-man show dedicated to Samuel Johnson, the man who wrote the dictionary.
| 04 August 2009
Assembly Rooms
6–31 August (not 18), 1.10pm
The indefatigable New York writer and performer John Clancy joins forces with actor David Calvitto for a comic journey beyond theatre's fourth wall, where uncertainty reigns.
| 04 August 2009
Pleasance Courtyard
7–30 August, 2.45pm
Long-time Fringe regular Red Shift returns in style, despite losing favour with the Arts Council, this time turning its trademark atmospheric effects to Paradise Lost.
| 04 August 2009
Lowland Hall, Ingleston
18–22 August, 7.30pm
The story of the academic who sold his soul to the devil is all over the Fringe this year (check out, for example, Faust in the Box, a puppet version), but none will be more spectacular than this Romanian staging in the Edinburgh International Festival.
| 04 August 2009
King's Theatre
15 August–5 Sep, times and dates vary
Considered to be Ireland's greatest living playwright, Brian Friel hit 80 this year and to celebrate, Dublin's Gate Theatre is reviving three of his plays in the International Festival: Faith Healer, The Yalta Game and Afterplay.
| 04 August 2009
7 Holyrood Road
6–30 August (not 11, 18), 2pm and 6pm
Glasgow's Reeling and Writhing draws on writer Tim Nunn's experience as a human rights worker for this exploration of the connection between fear and laughter.
| 04 August 2009
The Stand Comedy Club III
7–30 August (not 17), 1pm
Before the world-conquering Black Watch, playwright Gregory Burke was celebrated as the author of Gagarin Way, a heist comedy set in a Fife factory. Here it is revived by the Comedians' Theatre Company.
| 04 August 2009
Assembly Rooms
6–31 August (not 10, 17, 24), 2.50pm
Before her death, Muriel Spark granted Edinburgh's Stellar Quines the rights to adapt one of her best-loved novels. Judith Adams' version makes a suitable companion piece to the production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at the same venue.
| 04 August 2009
Underbelly
16–30 August, 12am
The oil has run out and the lights are run on pedal power in this low-fi sci-fi fantasy by the inventive UK company Stan's Café, which is also performing the spy-themed 49 Steps.
| 04 August 2009
Assembly Rooms
5–31 August, 4.15pm
Installation art meets promenade theatre meets comedy in a show directed by the comedian and novelist Mark Watson that claims to have no script, no characters and no plot.
| 04 August 2009
Pleasance Courtyard
5–31 August (not 18, 25), 3.25pm
One of a number of shows on a medical theme this year, this quirky comedy from the people behind the Fringe First-winning Paperweight is about a geneticist and his home-grown son.
| 04 August 2009
Zoo Southside
7–31 August (not 20), 10.30pm
Rain People, an inventive company from St Petersburg, tells an atmospheric story of four people in search of happiness and escape in the big city.
More Articles...
- The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church
- I - Witness
- Kursk
- The Last Witch
- The Lamplighter's Lament
- A Life In Three Acts
- Little Gem
- Luck
- Mercy Madonna of Malawi
- Meesterlijk
- Midsummer
- A Midsummers Night's Dream
- Mind Out
- Must: The Inside Story
- My Life With The Dogs
- Nun The Wiser
- Orphans
- Palace of the End
- Peter and Wendy
- Pip Utton
- The Post-Show Party Show
- Precious Little Talent
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Pythonesque
- Ringside
- Sea Wall
- Snatch Paradise
- The Sound Of My Voice
- Stand By Your Van
- Stay!
- Stefan Golaszewski is a Widower
- Susurrus
- Sweet
- Trilogy
- Why I Don't Hate White People
- The World Is Too Much
- Year of the Horse
