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Cutting-edge playwrights, thought-provoking stories, world premieres, epic new productions and local perspectives on global themes; 2017’s International Festival theatre programme captivates and keeps you enthralled.

 
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Meow Meow's Little Mermaid

Forget the Little Mermaid you thought you knew. Meow Meow’s subversive cabaret is a fairytale gone rogue.
3 - 27 August
Various times
The Hub
 

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Rhinoceros

Eugène Ionesco’s classic 1959 play considers the countless ways in which humans are content to adapt themselves to new and...
3 - 12 August
Various times
The Lyceum
 

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Martin Creed's Words and Music

Artist, musician and Turner Prize-winner Martin Creed invited you to a delightfully nonconformist evening of words, music and more, as...
4 - 27 August
10.30pm
The Studio
 

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70th Anniversary

Standard Life Opening Event: Bloom

This epic, outdoor, public artwork, brings together spectacular animation, lighting and music on Fri 4 and Sat 5 August 2017...
70th Anniversary
4 - 5 August
10.00pm
St Andrew Square
 

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Meet Me At Dawn

Unflinchingly honest and tenderly lyrical, it is a modern fable exploring the triumph of everyday love, the mystery of grief,...
4 - 27 August
Various times
Traverse Theatre
 

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Flight

Renowned Scottish theatre company Vox Motus adapts Caroline Brothers’s 2012 novel Hinterland, in a magical experience that combines unsettling themes...
4 - 27 August
Various times
Church Hill Theatre & Studio
 

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