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Thousands of FREE tickets released today for Edinburgh International Festival Standard Life Opening Event: Bloom
The Edinburgh International Festival today releases free tickets for the Standard Life Opening Event: Bloom, the epic digital artwork which will mark the opening of the 2017 summer festival season and celebrate the 70th anniversary of the International Festival and Edinburgh’s enviable status as the world’s Festival City. This year’s event evolves from previous Opening…
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Girls to make its Edinburgh Festival premiere
Girls, the funny and fiercely passionate play by award-winning playwright Theresa Ikoko will make its Edinburgh Festival premiere in 2017. Telling the tale of three young friends who are kidnapped in Nigeria, Girls examines the stories behind the headlines that quickly become yesterday’s news. “Why is everyone so bloody obsessed with hashtags? Can you…
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The Jurassic Parks returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe along with two brand new shows
The Jurassic Parks is an updated version of the sell-out, multi award-winning, laugh-out-loud spin on Spielberg’s classic. Welcome to the unlikely setting of Lyme Regis Community Centre, where the Park Family – Terry, Jade and Noah – embark on a journey to a misty past. Where, when things go wrong, family feuds are faced with…
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Pleasance announce Edinburgh Fringe 2017 line up
On Thursday, 20th April Pleasance Theatre Trust announces 132 more shows on sale with an array of exciting newcomers and Festival favourites highlighting the pages of Edinburgh Fringe 2017 programme. The Comedy programme welcomes back to the Pleasance Great British Bake Off host and a celebrated comedian Sue Perkins, Live at the Apollo and Frankie…
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Network of Independent Critics return to Edinburgh Fringe 2017
• Providing accommodation for independent critics to cover Edinburgh Festival Fringe without breaking the bank. • Enabling increased media coverage of niche interest and emerging work, which struggles to find representation in the mainstream press. • Not a publishing platform, but a support system for established and developing critics who work independently for little or…
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Leith Theatre Trust announces Irvine Welsh as its Patron
Leith Theatre Trust is pleased to announce Irvine Welsh as its Patron. In a message of support Irvine Welsh said “I used to play outside the Leith Theatre as a kid and always remember it as an impressive but dormant force. I recall seeing Mott the Hoople play there and thought that this was the…
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