1984
By George Orwell
Adapted by Helen Appleton, Carole Ashcroft and the cast
Quaker Meeting House
***(*)
4:48
Psychosis
By Sarah Kane
Mardy Arts
Zoo
**
Accidentally
Waiting to Happen
The Paper Birds
Pleasance
*****
Adult
Child/Dead Child
By Claire Dowie
Kissbar Theatre Company
Sweet ECA
*****
A'Huntin'
Revised Edition Theatre
Greyfriars Kirk House
Alice
Through the Looking Glass
Adapted and Directed by Alison Neighbour
Little Acorn
Bedlam Theatre
***
Allegiance
By Mary Kenny
Assembly Rooms
***
The
Allotment
By Andy Barrett
New Perspective Theatre Company
Pleasance
***(*)
Alun
Cochrane - Introducing an Introduction to Alun Cochrane's Imagination
Gilded Balloon Teviot
****
AmericanVaudeville
By Jon Morris and Scott Nankivel
High Priests of Hijinks
Pleasance King Dome
***
And
Even My Goldfish
Chotto Ookii
C Central
****
Aneas
Faversham
The Penny Dreadfuls
Smirnoff Underbelly
*****
Antigone
By Sophocles: Adaptor/Director - D.B. Hovis
The Blueside Theatre, Pilrig Church
**(*)
Antonio
Forcione Quartet
Assemby @ George Street
*****
Art
of Silence
By J S Hartley
Demarco Rocket Productions
Rocket @ Demarco Roxy Art House
****
An
Audience with Albert Einstein
By Gary Barber
Gilded Balloon Teviot
***
Average
Minotaur
By Alex Barr
Greenside
**
The
Bacchae
By Euripides
Moving Parts
Diverse Attractions
*
Baggage
By Jonnie Fielding
Short Story Theatre
Pleasance
***
Banshees
By Sitting Pretty Theatre Company
Venue 13
**
Bat
Boy: The Musical
Story and Book by Keythe Farley and Brian Fleming
Music and Lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe
Cambridge University Broadway Savoyards
C Too
*****
Bajazet
By Racine, in a version by Alan Hollinghurst
Double Edge Drama
Baby Belly
**
Between
By Amy Mihyang
Gilded Balloon Teviot
*
Bill
Hicks: Slight Return
Festival Highlights
Pleasance Courtyard
****
Bitches
and Money
Relentless Theatre
Babybelly
****
Black
Comedy
By Peter Shaffer
Dreamwalk Productions
C Venues
***
The
Black Jew Dialogues
Written and performed by Larry Jay Tish and Ron Jones
StageCoach Productions
C Chambers Street
***(*)
Black
Watch
By Gregory Burke
Traverse 4, The University of Edinburgh Drill Hall
*****
Bloggers
- Real Internet Diaries
Devised and compiled by Oliver Mann
Connected Theatre
Smirnoff Underbelly
****
Bodies
In Transit
By Nina Larissa Bassett
Mucca Divina
Traverse
***(*)
Boothby
Graffoe with Nick Pynn: Release U Win Tin
The Stand Comedy Club
*****
Both
Sides of the Bar
By Scott Major
Bathroom Floor Productions
Smirnoff Underbelly
***
Breaking
The Pope
By Colin Martin
Borderline Theatre Company
Baby Belly
***
Breasts
and Burgers
Richard Franklin Productions
Smirnoff Underbelly
**
Brendon
Burns -Sober Not Clean
Brendon Burns
Pleasance Dome
*****
C90
By Daniel Kitson
Traverse Theatre
*****
Cabin
Fever
By Jim Sweeney
Gilded Balloon Teviot
***
Cantata
for Acquiescence
Directed and Choreographed by Mira Kingsley
CalArts Festival Theatre
Venue 13
*****
The
Canterbury Tales
Distraction Theatre Company
St Augustines
***
Captain
Corelli's Mandolin
Mike Maran Productions
Valvona and Crolla
****
Caviar
and Chips
VIP Theatre Company
Baby Belly
****(*)
Chalk
Circle
Directed by Jeff Bengford
Sweet ECA
****
Chanbara
Yamoto
Pleasance Grand
*****
Cild
By Nick Payne
The Hoy Productions
C Central
*
Cinzano
By Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Broken House Drama
Underbelly
***
Clean
Alternatives
By Brian Dykstra
Assembly @ St George's West
***
Closer
Than Ever
Music by David Shire, lyrics by Richard J Malby Jnr
Kent-Mcardle Productions
C Too
***
The
Clouds Saw What Happened
Sugar-Salem Drama
Sweet ECA
***(*)
The
Coma
By Alex Garland, adapted by Marcus Condron
We Could Be Kings
Pleasance Dome
**
The
Convent
Jo Strømgren Koopani
Aurora Nova
*****
Cooped
By Cal McCrystal and Spymonkey
Assembly Rooms
****
Corleone:
The Shakespearean Godfather
Eastview Theatre
Pilrig Church
***
Creena
Defooie
Written by Charlotte Baron-Hoare
Ruby Bloomsbury Theatre
Sweet ECA
***(*)
The
Crucible
By Arthur Miller
Close Up Theatre
Greenside
**
Crunch
Tangram
Pleasance Courtyard
*****
Dance
All Sorts: Show 1
Dance Base
***(*)
Dance
All Sorts: Show 3
Dance Base
****
Dance
All Sorts: Show 4
Rosie Kay Dance Company presents The Wild Party
Based on the poem by Joseph Moncure March
Dance Base
*****
Danny's
Wake
New End Theatre and Cracking Up Productions in association with
the Pleasance
Pleasance Courtyard
*****
Dark
Lantern
Red Card Theatre
Calton Theatre Café Bar
****
Dark
North
By David Skeele
Slippery Rock Theatre
Venue 45
**
The
Decameron Project
An adaptation of tales from Boccaccio's The Decameron
Clemson University
C Chambers Street
***
Devil's
Advocate
By Donald Freed
Assembly Rooms
*
Diary
of a Nobody
By George and Weedon Grossmith
Assembly Rooms
**
Did
You Used to be R.D. Laing?
By Mike Maran
Mike Maran/Elevator East to Edinburgh
Valvona & Crolla
****
Dr
Faustus
By Christopher Marlowe, adapted by Nick Warburton
Bawds
C Central
*(*)
Dr.
Ledbetter's Experiment
By Tom Swift
Traverse 5, University of Edinburgh Medical Faculty
***
Doctors
Sarah Ruff
Sweet Grassmarket
**(*)
The
Dumb Waiter
By Harold Pinter
The Trident Theatre
Rocket @ Roxy Art House
*(*)
Dusty
Limits is Heartless
Quick-Naughty Productions
C Central
***
¡El
Conquistador!
By Thaddeus Phillips with Tatiana Mallarino and Victor Mallarino
Traverse 2
***
Elegies
for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
By Bill Russell: music by Janet Hood
RSAMD Musical Theatre
Augustine's Sanctuary
***
Ella
Meets Marilyn
By Bonnie Greer
Andy Jordan Productions
Pleasance Dome
**
Emily's
Kitchen
Tangled Feet
Gilded Balloon Teviot
*****
End
of the Rainbow
By Peter Quilter
Assembly Theatre, Marshall Cordell and Ross Mollison
Assembly Hall
*****
Esme-Tales
By Jen Anderson, adapted by Joseph Murphy
Exeter University Theatre Company
C Central
***(*)
Everyone
Should Have A Gun
Written and Directed by Philip Stokes
Horizon Arts
Zoo
****
Excitable
Steve Williams
Edinburgh Comedy Club
***
Exotica
By Anushiye Yarnell
Zoo
**
The
Family - Semianyki
Teatr Licidei
Assembly @ St George's West
*****
Fahrenheit
451
By Ray Bradbury
GODLIGHT Theatre Company
Gilded Balloon Teviot
***
Finer
Noble Gases
By Adam Rapp
The Bongo Club
***
Finnegan's
Wake: The Tale of Shem the Penman
Adam Harvey
C Cubed
****
Fish
Story
Devised by Rob Evans and the company
People Can Run
Pleasance Courtyard
***
Floating
By Hugh Hughes
Pleasance Courtyard
****
Food
By Joel Horwood and Christopher Heimann
Traverse 2
*****
Fool
Smirnoff Underbelly
*****
For
Every Passion Something
Davidson College
Rocket@Demarco Roxy Art House
**
Friday
Girls
Written and Directed by Frank Hotchkiss
Playaway Productions
Augustines
**(*)
G-City
Monologues
Firefly Productions
Roman Eagle Lodge
****
Geraldine
Quinn: Bad Ambassador
Gilded Balloon Teviot
***(*)
Geronimo
- The Umbilical Project: Cut/Uncut
By Lucy Kirkwood
Kandinsky
Pleasance Attic / Bedlam Theatre
***/****
Get
Carter
By Ted Lewis
Red Shift Theatre Company
Pleasance Courtyard
*****
Girl
Blog From Iraq: Baghdad Burning
Barrow Street Productions and Six Figures Theatre
Adapted from the weblog by Riverbend by Kimberly I Kefgen &
Loren Ingrid Noveck
Pleasance
*****
Girl
in Box
Futurememory
Devised by Company
C Central
***
Gizmo
Love
By John Kolvenbach
ATC
Assembly @ George Street
****
Goodness
By Michael Redhill
Traverse 2
***
A
Grimm Tale
Written and Directed by Alastair Laverty
First in Last Out Company
The Bongo Club
****
The
Gruffalo and Friends
Julia and Malcolm Donaldson
The Assembly Rooms
****
The
Gruffalo's Child
Adapted by Olivia Jacobs and Toby Mitchell
Tall Stories
Assembly @ George Street
***
Hairdresser
in the House
Raymond Keane
Barrabas
Aurora Nova
***
Hamburg
By Darren Ormandy
The Sticking Place
Underbelly
****
Hamlet:
The Gloomy Prince
Wright Mark! Productions
Sweet Grassmarket
***
Hansel
and Gretel
Captain Theatre
Rocket @ Roxy Art House
***
Hide
and Seek
Kiss My Face Theatre
Rocket @ Demarco Roxy Art House
(*)
Hillary
Agonistes
By Nick Salamone
C Central
*****
The
Hired Man
Book and lyrics by Melvyn Bragg, music by Howard Goodall
Exadus Theatre Company
Augustine's
***(*)
How
to Teach the History of Communism to Mental Patients
Open Fist Theatre Company
Southside Zoo
**
Hysteria
Inspector Sands and Stamping Ground Theatre
Aurora Nova
*****
I
Have Been Here Before
By J.B Priestley
Edinburgh Theatre Arts
St Ninian's Hall
****
Iliad:
fall of Troy
Written and Directed by Mary Tate
Livewire Theatre Group
Venue 45
*****
I
Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
By Joe Dipietro and Jimmy Roberts
Perfect Stage Productions
Greenside
****
Improbable
Frequency
Book and Lyrics by Arthur Riordan, music by Bell Helicopter
Traverse 1
****
I'm
Worried that I'm Starting to Hate Everyone in the World
By Mark Watson
Pleasance Courtyard
****
The
Infant
By Oliver Lansley
Les Enfants Terribles
Gilded Balloon Teviot
*****
Innocence
By Philip Monks
Karisma Productions
C Central
****
In
Pursuit of Cardenio
By Ken Campbell
Underbelly
****
Insomnobabble
By Robert Fraquhar
Big Wow in association with Richard Jordan Productions
Underbelly
****
In
the Continuum
By Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter
Traverse
*****
Iphigenia
Adapted by Lisa Turner from the opera Iphigenie en Tauride
by Gluck
Zoo
****
The
Irish Curse
By Martin Casella
Smirnoff Underbelly
***
It's
a Girl
By John Durrows
Wonderland Theatre & Weaver Hughes Ensemble
C Central
***(*)
Jim
Henson's Puppet Improv - adults only
Assembly Hall
*****
Jim
Henson's Puppet Improv - For children
Assembly Hall
****
Jump
YeGam Inc
Assembly Hall
*****
Klepto
By Steve Tasane
Renaissance One
C Central
**
Knocking
on Heaven's Door
By Rhod Gilbert
Pleasance Courtyard
****
La
Clique
La Clique
Spiegel Tent
****
Lady
Chatterley's Lover
By D. H. Lawrence, adapted by the company
Kangaroo Court
Zoo
***
The
Laramie Project
Compiled from Real Interviews
Theatre Omnibus
Sweet ECA
***
Levelland
By Rich Hall
Assembly Rooms
***
Lies
Have Been Told
By Rod Beacham
Andy Jordan productions
Pleasance Dome
*****
The
Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches
Adapted and directed by Marcia Carr
Underbelly
Impetuous Kinship/Elevator East to Edinburgh
**
Little
Red Riding Hood
The Boy Who Cried Theatre Company
C Cubed
***
Lolita
Act Provocateur International
C Central/C Cubed
***(*)
Lord
of the Flies
Feltonfleet @ the Fringe
Directed by Alasdair Richardson
Augustines
****(*)
Love
Labours Won
By Ryan J-W Smith
Rogue Shakespeare Company
Gilded Balloon Teviot
****
Love
Me, Dorothy
Flip Theatre
Rocket@Demarco Roxy Art House
***
Love's
Remains
By Brett Goldstein
Pleasance Dome
*
Man
and God
Written and Directed by Chris Bush
White Rose Theatre
Baby Belly
**
Marlon
Brando's Corset
By Guy Jones
Ed Curtis Associates Ltd.
Pleasance Grand
**(*)
Mary
and the Stripper
By Michelle van Rensburg
M&E Productions
Hill Street
**
Meeting
Joe Strummer
By Paul Hodson
Gilded Balloon Teviot
**
The
Mercy Seat
By Neil Labute
Collapsible Theatre Company
C Central
****
Metamorphoses
By Mary Zimmerman
Black Lens
Sweet at Grassmarket
*****
Mickey
Mouse is Dead
By Justin Sherin
Spankin Yanks
Pleasance Baby Grand
****
Midnight
Carousel
C presents...
C Central Cabaret
*
Midnight
Cowboy
By Leo James Herlihy, adapted by Tim Fountain
Assembly Rooms
****
Midsummer
Night's Dream
Royal Holloway Theatre
C Central
****
A
Midsummer Night's Dream
By William Shakespeare
Nonsenseroom Productions
Roslyn Chapel
*****
Miss
High Leg Kick's Fashion Bus
Escalator East to Edinburgh
On Dr Roberts' Magic Bus, Middle Meadows Walk
****
Moliere's:
The Hypochondriac
SUDS Theatre Company
Roman Eagle Lodge
*****
Moon
The Loon
Festival Highlights
Pleasance
****
Much
Ado About Goblin
By Matt Borgatti
WatchThis
Smirnoff Underbelly
****(*)
My
Dearest Byron
Written by Bernie C. Byrnes
Another Midas
C Cubed
****
My
Name Is Rachel Corrie
Royal Court Theatre
Pleasance Grand
***
Necessary
Targets
By Eve Ensler
Pepperdine University, Malibu
C Cubed
****
Netochka
Nezvanova - Nameless Nobody
By Dostoevsky
Russkiya Notchi
Baby Belly
*****
Newsrevue
C, Chambers Street
****
No
Obvious Trauma
Directed by Clare Dunn
Unpacked
Pleasance
****(*)
Nooky,
Man in the Matchbox
Péter Molnár Kálloy
St Marks artSpace
*
Nora
By Deborah Westrup
Ether
Hill Street Theatre
**
Normal
By Anthony Neilson
Schadenfreude Productions
C Chambers Street
*****
Oedipus
By Sophocles, adapted by Andy Cargill
Sandbach Theatre School
Royal College of Physicians
***
One
Night at the Caravan Club
Corner House
Rocket @ Roxy Art House
****
One
Set to Love
By Matt Devere, Paul Hunter and Mike Kelly
Assembly @ St George's West
***
Onysos
the Wild
By Laurent Gaude
Compagnie Rhapsodie
Traverse Theatre
****
Othello
By William Shakespeare
Turrets Youth Theatre
Venue 45
***
Paradox
Pipin Theatre Company
Devised by Company
Rocket@Roxy Art House
***
Particularly
in the Heartland
The TEAM
Traverse 2
**
Paul
Merton's Impro Chums
Pleasance Courtyard
*****
Persae
By Van Badham
The New Theatre Company
Underbelly
***(*)
Petrol
Jesus Nightmare # 5 (In the Time of the Messiah)
By Henry Adam
Traverse 1
**
The
Pier Glass
Young Pleasance
Pleasance
****(*)
Plays
for the Poor - The Education of Skinny Spew and Christie in Love
By Howard Brenton
Carte Blanche Theatre Company
C Central
***/**
The
Point of Yes
Jane Godley
Assembly Rooms
***
Polar
Bears
By Jim Kenworth
Underbelly
***
Political
Animal
Baby Belly
***
The
Pool
Leaves on the Track
Gilded Balloon Teviot
*****
Pop
Art
Montezuma's Revenge
Assembly @ St George's West
***
The
Positive Hour
Teabreak Theatre Company
C Central
**
Press
Escape to Continue
Small Fires Theatre Company
Pleasance Dome
***
Pride
and Prejudice and Niggas
By Reginald D Hunter
Udderbelly
****
Provocative
Cinema
Act Provocateur International
In association with C Film
C Cubed
Pumpgirl
By Abbie Spallen Traverse 2
****
(Reviewed by Philip Fisher)
Pumpgirl
By Abbie Spallen
Traverse Theatre
***(*)
(Reviewed by David Chadderton)
Puppet
City - A Korean Fantasy
Assembly @ George Street
***(*)
Purgatory
Blank Theatre Company
C Chambers Street
*****
Rabbit
By Brendan Cowell
Something Else
C Cubed
*****
Radio
By Al Smith
Underbelly
*****
The
Receipt
By Will Adamsdale and Chris Branch
Assembly Rooms
**
The
Regina Monologues
By Rebecca Russell and Jenny Wafer
Tidemark Theatre
C Chambers Street
***(*)
Resonance
Echo Echo Dance Theatre
Aurora Nova
*
Retail
Paradise Princess
The Alternative Stage Company
Greyfriars Kirk house
***
Rock
A Bye B-Boy
Random Aspekts
Dance Base
****
Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern are Dead
By Tom Stoppard
Chimeric Productions
C Chambers Street
*****
Russell
Howard: Wandering
By Russell Howard
Avalon
Pleasance Upstairs
****
The
Same… But Different
The Richard Hardwick Company
Pleasance Dome
***
Sclavi:
The Song of an Emigrant
Farm in the Cave
Aurora Nova
*****
The
Screwtape Letters
By C S Lewis
Saltmine Theatre Company
Charlotte Chapel
****(*)
The
Seagull
Act Provocateur International
C Chambers Street
***
Shakespeare
for Breakfast
By William Shakespeare (and others)
C, Chambers Street
**
Shazia
Mirza
Pleasance Dome
***(*)
Sherlock
Holmes: The Three Students
Written by Owen Dudley Edwards
Frantic Redhead Productions
C outside St Patrick's - a "walking" play
***
The
Shoemaker's Incredible Wife
By Federico Garcia Lorca. Translation by Lucinda Coxon
Rocket @ Demarco Roxy Art House
**(*)
Slap
Inside Leg
Pleasance
***
The
Sperm Monologues
Sidestep Theatre Productions
E4 Udderbelly
***
Stars
By Anja Hilling, in a new version by Sarah Colvin
Traverse 3
***
The
Steamie
By Tony Roper
Practical Magic
Radisson SAS Hotel
*****
Strawberries
in January
By Evelyne de la Chenelière, in a version by Rona Munro
Traverse
*****
Struwwelpeter
Magico Theatre
Rocket
***
Superheroes
David Spicer
Pleasance
***
A
Tale of Two Cities
Adapted by David Tucker
Crashnburn Theatre
The Bongo Club
*****
Talk
Radio
By Eric Bogosian
E4 Udderbelly
****
Taylor
Mac
Baby Belly
*****
Teen
Scream
By the Heather Brothers
Assembly Rooms
**
The
Tempest
By William Shakespeare
Eyeball Theatre
C Too
****
Terre
Haute
By Edmund White
Assembly Rooms
****
Theatre
in the Pound
C Central Cabaret Bar
****
Think
No Evil of Us
David Benson - Festival Highlights
Pleasance
****
The
Third from the Left
By Jean Colonomos
Playwrights' Arena
C Central
***
Tits
and Blood
By Neil Labute
Greyfriars Kirk House
****
Tone
Clusters
By Joyce Carol Oates
Traverse 3
****
Tony
Robinson's Cunning Night Out
Guilded Balloon Teviot
***
Top
Gun
Collapsible Theatre
C Chambers Street
***(*
Treacle
Written and Directed by Madeline MacMahon
Z Theatre Company
Venue 45
***
True
West
By Sam Shepard
Assembly Rooms
***
Twinkle
Little Star
By Philip Meeks
Gilded Balloon Productions
Gilded Balloon Teviot
****
Two
Graves
By Paul Sellar
Pleasance Dome
**
Two
Men Talking
By Paul Browde and Murray Nossel
Assembly Rooms
***
The
Tylwyth Teg
Devised by the company
Apricot Theatre
Smirnoff Underbelly
****(*)
The
Unattended
By Daniel Maier
Suspect Package
Gilded Balloon Teviot
****
(Reviewed by Peter Lathan)
The
Unattended
By Daniel Maier
Gilded Balloon Teviot
****
(Reviewed by David Chadderton)
Unprotected
By Esther Wilson, John Fay, Tony Green and Lizzie Nunnery
Traverse 1
****
Up
Script Creek
Watchthis
Underbelly
***
Virgins
By John Retallack
Company of Angels
Assembly Rooms
****
The
Visitor
121 Theatre
Hill Street
****
Vocation
of a Whore
Tearo dei Borgia
Zoo Southside
***
Wasp
By Steve Martin
Collapsible Theatre Company
C Central
**
Wasted
By Henry Filloux-Bennet
Theproductioncompany with Wild Thyme Productions
Pleasanc
We
Don't Know Shi'ite
WMD Theatre
Underbelly
*
Whale
Music
by Anthony Minghella
Stage Presence
Sweet ECA, Edinburgh College of Art
***
What
I Heard About Iraq
Adapted by Simon Levy from Elliot Weinberger's London Review of
Books Article
Pleasance Courtyard
****
Whisky
Galore - a Musical
Based on the novel by Compton Mackenzie
Book by Shona McKee McNeil, music and lyrics by Ian Hammond Brown
Cutting Edge Productions (Scotland)
Augustine's
*****
White
Open Spaces
Pentabus Theatre
Pleasance Dome
****
Young
Macbeth
Castle Theatre Company
C Too
*****
Zelda
Yellow Heron Productions
Venue 13
***
