Tag: Festival Fringe

The Ruffian on the Stair

by Joe Orton
21:00 Mon 5 – Sat 10 Aug 2024, The Royal Scots Club

Mike and his van work odd hours for irregular contracts; Joyce has given up her profession for a home. Enter Wilson, a cocky young man seeking help in exacting a violent and idiosyncratic revenge. Joe Orton was known for his scandalous black comedies and in this, one of his earliest plays, the themes of sex, violence and death are shown playing themselves out in the everyday lives of Mike and Joyce and in Wilson, whose love for and loss of the man he calls his brother provides the catalyst for the disruption that unfolds.

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A Singular Deception by Hilary Spiers

19:00 Mon 5 – Sat 10 Aug 2024, The Royal Scots Club

Illuminating the astonishing true story of Dr James Barry, A Singular Deception will premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a run at The Royal Scots Club Monday 5 – Saturday 10 August 2024. Compelling new writing by Hilary Spiers about a shamefully forgotten nonpareil.

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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 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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