Traverse Theatre
The Traverse has an eclectic programme with 5 world premières.
Unfaithful by Fringe First award-winning playwright Owen McCafferty is a stark and intense glimpse into the reality of two couple’s relationships as they struggle to understand their roles as lovers, partners and individuals.
With the Scottish referendum looming, John McCann has written Spoiling that imagines a newly independent Scotland.
Also topical is Bloody Trams and, although they are at last now up and running, this verbatim piece explores the public response to one of Edinburgh’s most contested and emotive debates over the last decade.
The Traverse also has two shows from Irish Companies. The first is Riverrun, an adaption of the voice of the river in James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake, and the UK première of Lippy by Bush Moukarzel and Mark O’Halloran, an interpretive piece that tells the true story of four women dying following a starvation pact.
Award-winning David Leddy returns with his new intense drama Horizontal Collaboration where sex, power and politics collide with emotion, seduction and destruction. It is performed each day by new actors who have never seen the script before. Sounds like an interesting experiment.
You can happily spend a whole day at The Traverse and their café produces some good food as well.