The Edinburgh Deaf Festival is back for 2025, with a vibrant programme of shows and events embracing everything from new drama to comedy, music and magic. After a long, tough but ultimately successful campaign, this unique annual celebration of deaf culture, is laying...
Cheeky, funny, sexy – and harrowing, Sad Girl Songs is dark feminist comedy. Audiences are invited to come along and be entertained (and in some cases educated) by songs like You Should Know Where the Clit Is (a handy user’s guide) and Daddy Issues Boyfriend. Actor,...
Truman Capote revelled in outrage and celebrity – staging parties that would simultaneously delight and scandalise 1960s US high society. His guest lists featured Audrey Hepburn, Greta Garbo, the Bloomingdales, Peter Lawford and Patricia Kennedy, David Niven, Tony...
As a young boy growing up in the Philippines Jeremy Rafal had few links to the wider world – until his dad bought a TV and he discovered cartoons. With no mobiles, home computers, internet or social media, in a place with little in live entertainment and where even...
It’s 1900 and Lillie Langtry, the most famous actress of her time and a great Victorian beauty, awaits a crucial telegram from her dearest friend Oscar Wilde. In Edinburgh, while on tour, she plans a play presenting all his most illustrious female characters – Cecily,...
In the sleepy Irish village of Bunderr, silence speaks volumes. After the suicide of his brother, Alan sets out to uncover the truth — what he finds threatens to tear his close-knit community apart. Our Brothers in Cloth is a bold new play by Irish writer Ronan...
Fed up of people putting you in boxes? When she was young Joann Condon was written off, body shamed, looked down on for being working class and seen as only fit for the dullest desk job. Partly thanks to an 80s pop icon she learned to defy expectations, building a...
Are you a sceptic about magic? It can’t be real. Or can it? Former physicist Kevin Quantum was a non-believer – but an uncanny experience changed his mind. You might do the same – take a chance and go along to the first ever magic show for people who don’t believe....
Spin the wheel, grab a prop, tell a story. In this tilt-a-whirl, unrelenting dash through the life of Vincent Van Gogh a terrible spinning wheel controls the manic, blissful artist through a disorienting, chaotic journey navigating the cruel randomness of creation,...
Celebrated designer opens up collection of 200 costumes Chance to try on designs from fabulous productions The creator of astounding and evocative costumes worn by international dancers, performers and circus artists is opening his collection for the public to explore...
