EGTG Platinum Season

EGTG will celebrate 70 years of producing theatre in 2024, with a bumper season of theatrical productions, drama workshops, and more with the staging of six plays and an exciting calendar of events to run throughout the year. 

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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 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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The Lark

The Lark by Jean Anouilh, contemporary translation by Gill Taylor

Performances 4th – 8th June, 7:30pm Bellfield, Portobello
Tickets £12 advance, £15 on the door theegtg.com/tickets/

Joan of Arc. Saint, saviour or someone who heard voices? 

Against the backdrop of one of the world’s longest wars, a 17 year old peasant girl led an army of men into battle and carved a victory that defined France. She claimed God told her to do it; the church says she’s a witch and should be burnt alive.

Jean Anouilh’s classic play tells the tale of how Joan convinced the church, the state – and her dad – to let her tackle an apparently impossible feat. And then plays witness at her trial: a nineteen year old uneducated woman held to account for her successes by the world’s most educated men.

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