Category: Fringe

crackers

crackers by cmfwood
18:45 7-12 Aug 2023, The Royal Scots Club (Venue 241)

Unsettling exploration of society’s uneasy relationship with mental ill-health.

Will is a popular, well-respected GP. He’s happily married to Mhairi, a teacher and they have a daughter, Lyra, who’s about to leave school for university. But when one of Will’s teenage patients commits suicide, Will’s world starts to unravel and he’s forced to question everything he thought he knew. 

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EGTG Fringe table-read

18:00 Sunday 3 April
18 Buccleuch Place

We invite you to join us to read and hear the two scripts that EGTG will perform at this year’s Festival Fringe. New and existing members are welcome as we read The Merchant of Venice, adapted by director Angela Harkness Robertson, and Lucy Kirkwood’s Bloody Wimmin, directed by Hilary Spiers. 

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Virtual table-read: Festival Fringe

Virtual table-read of three scripts for the Festival Fringe

Wed 23 June, 19:30 on Zoom
Tickets free via Eventbrite. 

An advance look at the three scripts proposed for the 2021 Festival Fringe. We’ll be reading through three short pieces written by the EGTG membership with a view to producing each of them as part of our digital programme in August.

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Fringe 2021 Update

— Updated 11 April —

This is the time of the year when we would normally be announcing auditions for the 2021 Festival Fringe. Unfortunately that is not the case and we have made the decision to postpone our planned productions once again, with the intention of bringing both The Merchant of Venice and Bloody Wimmin to the stage in 2022. 

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Fringe 2020 Update

It was with heavy hearts that we received news of the Festival Fringe cancellation this week; disappointing as it is, we believe it is the correct thing to do under current advice to suspend our preparations for the Fringe. It will make for a strange August indeed without our annual visit to The Royal Scots Club, but we look forward to returning next year. 

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