{"id":365869,"date":"2025-08-22T23:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T23:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/365869\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T23:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T23:48:13","slug":"2025-august-22-all-edinburgh-theatre-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/365869\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 August 22 : All Edinburgh Theatre.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Mary:
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\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606 Ridiculously entertaining<\/p>\n

Gilded Balloon Patter House (Venue 24):
Mary: A Gig Theatre Show at the Gilded Balloon Patter House for only one week is an entertaining hour of music and educational storytelling surrounding the life of Mary Queen of Scots and her ladies in waiting, all called Mary.<\/p>\n

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\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606 Vigorous<\/p>\n

Captivate Theatre take on the Famous Spiegeltent with their production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street through the 24th, bringing Sondheim\u2019s chilling musical, directed by Sally Lyall, to life beneath the canopy.<\/p>\n

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\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606 High-energy<\/p>\n

A Bohemian Banquet at the Edinburgh New Town Church is a true feast for the eyes and ears. A high-energy showcase of musical theatre talent, it\u2019s packed with toe-tapping numbers and polished performances.<\/p>\n

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\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606 \u00a0Reflective<\/p>\n

Billed as \u201cthe queer love story No\u00ebl Coward didn\u2019t write,\u201d Mark Kydd brings new monodrama Our Martin in the Background for the final week of the Fringe only, on odd afternoons at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.<\/p>\n

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\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606 Cautionary parable<\/p>\n

Kestrel Eye Productions\u2019 No Room at the Inn, playing at theSpace @ Surgeon\u2019s Hall in the final week of the Fringe, reflects on bigotry and faith in today\u2019s world.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Balfour
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\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606 \u00a0 \u00a0 Thought-provoking Summerhall (Venue 26): Wed 13 \u2013 Mon 25 Aug 2025 Review by Suzanne O\u2019Brien Balfour Reparations, created by Farah Saleh and playing Sunmmerhall for the last two weeks of the Fringe, imagines a hypothetical scenario that raises questions about Britain\u2019s colonial legacy in Palestine and its role in the country\u2019s past, [\u2026]<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Faustus
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\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606\u2606 Lacking clarity<\/p>\n

Faustus in Africa! may have been a ground-breaking production thirty years ago, but it is not entirely clear why it has been revived now, at the International Festival for four performances at the Lyceum.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Goose\u2019s
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\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606 Surprisingly addictive!<\/p>\n

Pub quiz institution Goose\u2019s Quizzes returns to the Fringe with their Elimination Game running for the full fringe, every night at Assembly Rooms\u2019 Bijou Spiegeltent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606 Ridiculously entertaining Gilded Balloon Patter House (Venue 24):Mary: A Gig Theatre Show at the Gilded Balloon Patter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-365869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115075095863733424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}