Running from August 3 – 27, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018 is fast approaching. If you haven’t circled all your favourites on your Fringe brochure yet and need some help selecting the shows you want to see this festival season, here is Glasgowist’s pick for theatre shows on across Edinburgh this summer.
Directed by Emma Jordan, East Belfast Boy promises to be a techno pumping, dynamically choreographed monologue with grotesque poetry and no holds barred. Written by Fintan Brady, the show follows Davy and his hometown, his mates, and his girl through his eyes.
With dialogue partially written in verse, the show is half play, half slam poetry. East Belfast Boy promises an awesome performance with black comedy, sentiment, and electricity.
Dates: Aug 14-19, 21-26
Venue: Summerhall
The Junkies
The Junkies, starring Grant Stott, Andy Gray, and Ruaraidh Murray, comes to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as a new black hearted comedy. The play follows Archie and Donny, second-hand dealers native to Edinburgh, who stumble across a substantial sum of money at a house clearance in New Town.
The dynamic duo are elated until their friend Choo Cho turns up. The trio soon learn to be careful what they wish for, especially when it comes to three unreliable friends scrapping over a pile of cash.
Aug 1-12, 14-18
Gilded Ballroom Theatre
Square Go
Featuring an original soundtrack by members of Frightened Rabbit, Square Go is set to be a hit at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The play follows Max, a normal kid living a normal town, hanging about with his ‘weird wee pal’ Stevie Nimmo.
Everything seems fine until Max is summoned to his first ever Square Go one day at the school gates. Exploring themes of toxic masculinity, mental health, and playground violence, Max must fight his demons and make the decision to run or stand his ground and fight. The show, written by Fringe First-winning writers Kieran Hurley and Gary McNair promises to be unmissable.
Aug 1, 3-6, 8-13, 15-20, 22-26
Roundabout at Summerhall
Trainspotting Live
In Your Face Theatre’s critically acclaimed, smash hit adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting returns to the Fringe this summer. Set in a unique venue, a grimy tunnel in underground Edinburgh, the audience are immersed, not exactly into ‘the worst toilet in Scotland’, but close enough.
This immersive theatre experience is unique in its realism with the same grit, violence, gore, subculture, and harrowing comedy of Welsh’s classic. Coming straight from a global tour, Trainspotting Live is a must see at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018.
Aug 2-7, 9-14, 16-21, 23-27
Venue 150 at EICC
Filth
For fans of Trainspotting Live and the works of Irvine Welsh, Skin & Bone Theatre’s adaptation of Filth is not to be missed this festival season. Filth follows the story of Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson, a devious, dying, drug-taking, law-breaking copper, in 1990s Edinburgh through his endeavours to nab a promotion which spiral into a catastrophic, hallucinogenic downfall.
Skin & Bone’s production of Harry Gibson’s stage adaptation promises to deliver an awe-inspiring, hilarious, and heart-breaking performance.
theSpace on North Bridge at Perth Theatre
Aug 3-11, 13-18