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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Copenhagen

Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
19:30 17 – 20 May, Assembly Roxy Upstairs
Tickets £15 (£12 EGTG Members)

Two European physicists meet in the city during World War 2. 

The Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group will be bringing the highly-charged Copenhagen back to Edinburgh this spring. Premiered at the National Theatre in London in 1998, with a revival at the Lyceum Theatre in 2009, Michael’s Frayn’s intense and erudite script will get a showing at Assembly Roxy 17 – 20 May by the local theatre company. 

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EGTG in 2023

With the rapturous applause of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol still ringing in our ears, we turn our attention to next year as we are thrilled to announce the shows and directors taking to the stage for EGTG in 2023. 

We are delighted to welcome back Ross Hope (JerusalemAll About My Mother) to the director’s chair in the spring, with a production of Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen. A wonderfully intellectual script for two men and one woman. 

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A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
Adapted by Angela Harkness Robertson

Performances 29 Nov – 3 Dec, 19:30 Assembly Roxy, Central
(Matinee 14:00 Sat 3 Dec)

Tickets £15 via Assembly Roxy, £13 for EGTG Members
Book online or telephone: 0131 623 3000

We have endeavoured in our faithful adaptation of this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put our audiences out of humour with themselves, with each other, or with the season. May it haunt your houses pleasantly.

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