Edinburgh International Festival 2016 Programme Announced Today Festival Director Fergus Linehanunveiled the 2016 Edinburgh International Festival programme. This year’s International Festival runs from Friday 5 to Monday 29 August, welcoming 2,442 artistsfrom 36 nationsto perform in Scotland’s capital city. Fergus Linehan said:‘The International Festival is an invitation from the people of Scotland […]
Category: Edinburgh Events
Edinburgh, City of Lights
Lighting up Edinburgh’s Old Town this Christmas The Virgin Money Street of Light is a breathtaking new event set to light up Edinburgh’s Old Town this Christmas. From St Andrew’s Day to Christmas Eve, an architectural installation of over 60,000 lights will run along the Royal Mile, from City Chambers to the Tron […]
Lighting up Edinburgh
Edinburgh’s Christmas promises to deliver the biggest and brightest Christmas festival ever seen in Scotland and the rest of the UK. Building on last year’s enormous success, and in the lead up to Christmas Day, this year’s Festival will also see an expansion into other parts of the city centre and more free […]
Ballett Zürich Wayne McGregor, Kairos
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 […]