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Art and Psychology
Rare staging for David Edgar’s Mary Barnes
The life of celebrated sixties counterculture psychologist RD Laing will be seen in a rare staging of Mary Barnes at Checkpoint on Bristo Place this week.
Everything Goes MAMA
Cole Porter classic for Musselburgh company:
MAMA, the Musselburgh Amateur Musicals Association, will be serving up something of an eye-opening surprise with their production of Anything Goes next week.
EIF programme announced
Solid showing for Linehan’s second EIF:
Circus, Shakespeare and Sappy Songs will provide just some of the highlights for this year’s Edinburgh International Festival, running 5 – 29 August 2016.
Primrose pretensions
ETA double bill pricks cultural pretensions:
Edinburgh Theatre Arts are sending up Scottish cultural pretensions this week with a double bill of plays by contemporary playwrights from opposite ends of the spectrum.
End in sight
EUTC to stage absurdist masterpiece:
Edinburgh University Theatre Company is staging a new production of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame this week at the Bedlam Theatre.
Blonde ambitions
Bohemians turn Legally Blonde for the week:
The Bohemians Lyric Opera Company bring their production of Legally Blonde to the stage this week, as the final part of the King’s amateur season.
Opera trio at Playhouse
Ellen Kent brings trio of operas to Playhouse:
Renowned opera producer Ellen Kent returns to the Playhouse this week with her Opera & Ballet International productions of three of the most popular operas in the repertoire.
Venetian favourite for EdGAS
Late G&S favourite floats into town:
It’s all G&S and Gondoliers at the King’s this week as the Edinburgh Gilbert and Sullivan Society returns with an old favourite of the Savoy Opera repertoire.
Off to see the Wizard
Southern Light return to yellow brick road:
Southern Light, Edinburgh’s oldest amateur theatre company, takes to Frank L Baum’s yellow brick road again this week, with The Wizard of Oz running at the King’s, Tue 23-Sat 27 Feb, 2016.
DanceFest is Go!
Festival stage explodes with innovation:
Tuesday night looks to be an early highlight in the dance aficionado’s year as as seventeen different youth dance groups get to perform on the Festival Theatre stage.
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