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Tuesday 22nd October 2024
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Theatre
Active Inquiry Flashback Theatre Company
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New term starts on Monday 22nd January Time: 6pm – 8pm, Mondays £9 per session (£ concession) This is our …
Active Inquiry presents The Lobby
Thursday 15th to Saturday 17th June 2023
Book tickets → Active Inquiry presents The Lobby by Poppy Smith It’s a big day for the staff of the …
Strange Town Easter Holiday Project
19th & 20th / 21st & 22nd April 2022
Drill Hall based Strange Town is a theatre company for young people in Leith, offering opportunities all year round. Come …
Gen Z: The Future is Unwritten
Thursday 17th June - Saturday 26th June 2021
In answer to the question, “can young people change the world?”, 110 young people from Strange Town’s eight youth theatre …
The Sideshow
Wednesday 21st - Saturday 24th August 2019
Omawick. A small town on the edge of a big town. A place with a rich history and a strong …
Strange Town Summer Drama Project: Create a Play in Five Days
July 2019
Strange Town is a theatre company for young people in Leith, offering opportunities all year round. Come and take part …
Active Inquiry presents The Balancing Act
Tuesday 25th June 2019
Becky wants to be a good mother and to advance her career. After taking some time to support her child …
Sitcom and Comedy Writing Workshop
Saturday 23rd March 2019, 11am - 5pm
Have you always wanted to write Comedy? Do you have an idea for a Sitcom but don’t know where to …
Badac Theatre Company presents: The Journey
Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th November 2018
This fearless, intense and immersive production focuses on the experiences of refugees from across the globe. A displaced mother and …
Overtime: Stories of work in Leith in 2018
Wednesday 22nd - Friday 24th August 2018
Leith Walk 2018. A lollipop man and a homeless woman watch the thousands of people going about their daily routines – …
Overtime: Stories of work in Leith in 2018
Thursday 14th - Saturday 16th June 2018
Leith walk 2018. A lollipop man and a homeless woman watch the thousands of people going about their daily routines …
No Exit – A Performance
April/May 2018
April 2018 Friday 27th Saturday 28th Sunday 29th May 2018 Friday 4th Saturday 5th Sunday 6th All performances are from …
Strange Town Easter Projects: Create your own live Video Game
Starts Tuesday 3rd April 2019
Become the characters in your very own live video game that you decide how to play. Use costume, props and …
All or Nothing Aerial – Watch Fly Come Try this Christmas!
Friday 22nd December 2017
Fly high this Christmas with All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre on Friday 22nd December at the Drill Hall! From …
Active Inquiry presents: Connected Lives
Monday 11th December 2017
Stories of isolation in a city of half-million people Why do people feel isolated in a city? What causes this …
Leith Moves: The Waves on the Seas
Wednesday 16th - Saturday 19th August 2017
Leith Moves is an Out of the Blue Heritage Lottery Funded education project investigating the historical significance of Leith Docks. …
Strange Town Summer Project
Starts Monday 3rd July 2017
Strange Town’s Summer Performance Projects are back again this summer with ‘Create a Play in five days’. Start on a …
Spect-Act Festival
Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st May 2017, entry by donation
Spect-Act is a network of Theatre of the Oppressed Companies in Edinburgh supported by Active Inquiry. The techniques of the …
Undermined
Friday 28th April 2017
Book tickets via eventbrite Unite Scotland & Unite Community Presents Inspired by the accounts of miners who lived through the …
Strange Town Easter Project – Create your own murder mystery
4th - 5th April (ages 8 - 10), 6th - 7th April (ages 11 - 14)
Become the characters in your very own detective thriller. Using costumes, props and imagination to set the scene of the …
iDENTiTY – Open Auditions
Saturday 1st April 2017
Anomaly Theatre Company will be presenting iDENTiTY, a series of short plays about living in the modern world, at the …
Action Hero
Watch Me Fall
Thu 11 – Sat 13 August, 9pm Reserve seats I’m going over in a barrel. I’m leaving the cannon, hitting …
Active Inquiry and Strange Town Young Company
Tales From Hanging Captain
Sat 13 & Sun 14 August, 1pm Reserve seats Stories from Leith Docks, of voyages, misadventure, struggle and solidarity Following …
Afreena Islam
Daughters of the Curry Revolution
Wednesday 17 August, 11am, 12pm, 1pm & 2pm Reserve seats “When I was little, I used to hang out at …
Dan Canham
30 Cecil Street
Tue 15 – Sat 20 August, 9.15pm* (*part of a double bill with Paper Cinema’s The Nightflyer) Reserve seats The final …
Daniel Oliver
Weird Seance: MAX DYSPR-AXES
Thu 11 – Sun 14 August, 3pm Reserve seats We are, Daniel tells us, in the future looking back on …
Elisabeth Carlile
Hush Now My Darling
Tuesday 16 & Wednesday 17 August, 4.30pm Reserve seats Hush Now My Darling is a live performance that explores the relationship between …
Ira Brand
Break Yourself
Thu 18 – Sat 20 August, 2pm Reserve seats “The thing I like about Springsteen is that all his songs …
Greg Wohead
Celebration, Florida
Thu 11 – Sun 14 August, 6pm Reserve seats Veering between reality and simulation, Celebration, Floridaorbits around ideas of surrogacy; …
Jak Soroka
If We Did It Like This
Tuesday 16 August, 12-2pm No booking necessary, this is a durational work and the audience are free to come and …
Nic Green
Cock and Bull
By Nic Green, with Laura Bradshaw and Rosana Cade Thu 11 – Sun 14 August, 8pm Reserve seats Originally conceived …
Search Party
Growing Old With You
Thu 18 & Fri 19 August, 8pm Reserve seats Growing Old With You is a life-long performance project that slowly …
SYZYGY
Thank You For Being Here
Tue 16 – Wed 17 August, 6pm Reserve seats ‘The world grows ever smaller, more connected, more crowded, and ironically, …
Bruncheon featuring Candythief, Callum Easter, Ewan Bush & Artcore Circus
Saturday 9th July 2016
A cracking line-up for our July Bruncheon put together by special guest programmer Candythief who will also be hitting the …
Tales From The Hanging Captain
Thursday 16th - Saturday 18th June 2016
Following on from the hugely successful production of “Persevere”, part of Out of the Blue’s Gretna 100 Project, “Tales From …
Imaginate Festival: Broken Dreams
2nd, 3rd & 4th June 2016
Broken Dreams By Kopergietery and Mambocito Mio Belgium Ages: 8+ Tickets on sale from Thursday 17th March Thursday 2nd June, …
Active Inquiry presents Spect-Act
Saturday 21st May 2016
Spect-Act is a two-year project with the goal of developing a network of Theatre of the Oppressed companies in Edinburgh. The …
Artcore Takeover at Central Library
Saturday 6 Feb 2016
It’s National Libraries Day on Saturday 6th February and the Central Library will definitely be a place for entertainment and …
Practitioner Training: Art from the Ordinary
Wednesday 18 Nov 2015
#artcore is offering a full day of training, looking at ways to engage non-performers in creating Art with an emphasis …
Home – A Legislative Theatre Experiment
VENUE CHANGE: Thursday 28th November 2019
Please note: this event is now being held at the following venue. Norton Park 57 Albion Road Edinburgh EH7 5QY …
This will not reoccur
Saturday 5th September 2015
New work from five young emerging artists. This will not reoccur is a one day only exhibition of brand new …
Strange Town Summer Performance Project
Starts Monday 29th June 2015
Strange Town’s Summer Performance Projects are back again this summer with ‘Create a Play in just five days’. Have fun …
#artcore Circus Finale!
Saturday 11th July 2015
|| FREE ENTRY || #Artcore Circus presents their brand new show ‘Level Up’ – A fusion of classic and contemporary circus, …
Gretna 100 – Persevere & Seven of the 7th Exhibition
May - August 2015
On the 22nd May 1915 1915, at Quintinshill near Gretna, the worst train disaster in British railway history left over …
Strangetown Easter Drama Workshops
7th/8th & 15th/16th April 2015
Come and learn theatre skills in improv, movement, mime and voice with Strange Town’s experienced practitioners. To book email shona@strangetown.org.uk NB …
Strangetown Radio Plays
February - May 2015
The Strangetown Radio Plays project, in conjunction with #artcore, offered young actors and those with no prior acting experience a …
Pyroceltica #artcore Circus
May-July 2015
Pyroceltica is an Edinburgh based entertainment company specialising in Celtic fire theatre and circus entertainment. The company performs locally as well …
Intensive Actor Training Workshop
31st Oct/1st Nov 2014
We’re starting two regular theatrical workshop sessions one for experienced performers and the other for non-professionals. If you’d like to …
Active Inquiry Theatre Company presents RESILIENCE
Saturday 11th October 2014
A Legislative Theatre Project exploring how communities, individuals, groups and organisations can be supported to become more resilient and thrive. …
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