Author: Thom Dibdin
Bright & Wild 2023
Lyra presents two weekends of fun
The Bright and Wild festival 2023 features four productions, commissioned and performed by the young participants at Lyra, the youth performing arts company in Craigmillar, staged at its Artspace venue.
The Lady Vanishes
★★★☆☆ Magnificent hokum
The Lady Vanishes provides for an entertaining evening up at the Church Hill Theatre, where the Threepenny Theatricals draw on 1930s English sensibilities for this train-set period thriller.
Al Fresco Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Forth Act to stage Shakespeare’s Dream in Saughton Park
This midsummer, new Edinburgh grass-roots theatre company, The Forth Act, is set to perform Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the open air arena of the Italian Garden in Saughton Park.
Howden Park faces closure
Protest as “underused” West Lothian venue under threat
The Howden Park Centre in Livingston could be fully closed as early as 31 August 2023, if a report from West Lothian Leisure is agreed by the West Lothian Council at its meeting on Tuesday, 9 May 2023.
Teviot Row House revamp
Iconic Fringe venue to go dark for 18 months
Teviot Row House, the Edinburgh University student union on Bristo square which is run by Gilded Balloon during the Fringe, is planned to go dark for 18 months from late October 23 until Spring 2025.
Warehouse Macbeth for Edinburgh
January 2024 dates for site-specific production
Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma are to star in a new production of Macbeth, touring to an as yet unnamed warehouse location in Edinburgh this coming January, 2024.
EIF Launches 2023 edition
First Benedetti festival asks “Where do we go from here?”
The Edinburgh International Festival has launched its 2023 programme under the title of Where Do We Go From Here? inspired by Martin Luther King Jr’s last book.