Ballett Zürich Wayne McGregor | Christian Spuck 27 – 29 August 2015 The Edinburgh Playhouse Ballett Zürich, one of Europe’s leading ensembles, presents a captivating double bill featuring works by their artistic director Christian Spuck and multi-award-winning British choreographer Wayne McGregor. McGregor’s new work Kairos is a seamless marriage of design and structure set to Max Richter’s celebrated […]
The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute Komische Oper Berlin | Barrie Kosky | 1927 27 – 30 August 2015 Festival Theatre Mozart’s masterful comedy is richly reimagined in a boundary-busting production created by director Barrie Kosky and British theatre group 1927, blending animated film and live action in a spectacular kaleidoscope of 1920s silent movies, Weimar cabaret, the […]
Ivy Paige: Filthy Rich
Ivy Paige: Filthy Rich 6th – 30th Aug 2015, 10.00pm Want to get rich quick? Need more bang for your buck? Let Ivy show you how, in a heady mix of cabaret, comedy and song. ‘Queen of British Burlesque’ (Mail on Sunday) will teach you how to live the dream* (which quite frankly is more […]
Seven, Germany’s Ballett am Rhein
20 – 22 August 2015 The Edinburgh Playhouse Germany’s Ballett am Rhein joins the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for Martin Schläpfer’s epic response to Mahler’s enigmatic 7th Symphony. In this full-length ballet, the anguish and poignant beauty of Mahler’s Symphony seem to be written into the bodies of the dancers. Music and movement merge into […]
Robert Lepage 887
European Premiere, Robert Lepage 887 Legendary director, playwright and ‘visual wizard’ (New York Times), Robert Lepage returns to Edinburgh to perform the European premiere of his new work. While Lepage continues to pioneer the use of technology, his work is imbued with an intimacy and humanity that few can match. 887 is a riveting foray into the […]
Dame Evelyn Glennie, The Animotion Show
Dame Evelyn and Fills Monkey, Sebastien Rambaud (glasses) and Yann Coste (beard), discovered a mutual love of performing music with Boomwhackers, tuned flexible percussion instruments and the trio will perform with the colourful instruments at the imposing setting of George Heriot’s School, said to be the inspiration for Hogwarts in the Harry Potter books […]
Subterranean Haunted Blues
Jack L lights up Blair St vaults To mark the Fringe premiere of Late Night Phantasmagoria with Jack Lukeman; the multi platinum-selling artist descends beneath the city to perform for Edinburgh’s ghouls and phantoms in a candlelight vault below the Royal Mile. Striking a charismatic pose in top hat and tailcoat Lukeman (known as […]
Pajama Men: Pterodactyl Nights
Pajama Men: Pterodactyl Nights Assembly George Square, Edinburgh George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LH Drawing on their huge catalogue of classic bits, always introducing new material and lacing it all together with bizarre improvised tangents, the Pajama Men create an anarchic night of jubilant and inventive comedy. Whether you’ve been watching them for years or are seeing them for […]
Vertical Influences
Dance, Physical Theatre and Circus (dance, contemporary) The Canadian iconoclastic ice skaters return to the Fringe with a new double-bill sharing their signature mix of movement, wit, speed and grace. In Influences, the performers play with how our body language can influence others, even with just a glance. In the second piece, Vertical, […]
Iván Fischer conducts The Marriage of Figaro
Iván Fischer conducts The Marriage of Figaro Iván Fischer conducts and directs a specially staged concert of one of opera’s most beloved comic creations. Mozart’s sparkling farce charts one crazy day of love and desire, deception and confusion across barriers of class and convention, as servant Figaro and his master, Count […]