Centrally located in the New Town, the Royal Scots Club boasts multiple performance spaces, historic interiors, relaxing bars and a friendly and knowledgeable team.

A Shakespeare comedy telling the tale of love, magic and mistaken identities. Four young lovers and a group of actors get caught in a mythical forest where fairies play tricks, leading to chaos and eventual resolution.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Arkle's affectionate take on the Buchan classic of espionage and daring-do. Gasp as Hannay gives the baddies the slip! Shriek as he hangs from the Forth Bridge! Marvel when he solves the riddle of The 39 Steps!

The 39 Steps

Tartan, tweed and stunning landscapes! Sue will guide you to stitch a tiny tweed and tartan textile landscape using remnants of fabric and vintage embroidery threads. All fabric and equipment supplied. No experience required. Previous Edinburgh Fringe sell out!

Tweed and Tartan Textile Landscape Workshop

Sue will guide you to create a Boro-inspired textile art work, by slow stitching with beautifully curated blue fabrics. Fabric, thread and all equipment provided. No experience required. Suitable for all. Previous Edinburgh Fringe sell-out event.

Japanese Boro Inspired Slow Stitching Workshop

When solicitor Jonathan Harker sets off for Transylvania to sell the mysterious Count Dracula a Gothic mansion, his bride-to-be, Mina, begs him to stay. Now her sister Lucy – newly-engaged to Harker's friend, Dr Seward – is becoming pale and thin. In Seward's lunatic asylum in London, a madman named Renfield babbles about his master who is coming. As a midnight storm rages, a black ship heads towards the English coast... This modern retelling of the Victorian classic explores what drives Dracula’s victims to invite him in and submit to his embrace. Suspenseful, chilling and suffused with dark eroticism.

Dracula

A beautifully warm and moving human connection. Don’t Stop Me Now challenges the taboos surrounding ageing and is a celebration of the superb stories and lives of The Flames until this moment in time. Don’t Stop Me Now promises to be fresh and real. Using performance, film and specially composed music, this show highlights the resilience of these performers and explores their stories behind why they are such an unstoppable force. The Flames is Tricky Hat’s performance company for people aged 50+, with participants from across Scotland and beyond.

Don't Stop Me Now

A classic farce by Nobel Prize-winning playwright Dario Fo, full of mishaps, misunderstandings and mayhem. A burglar is interrupted whilst at work when the homeowner returns unexpectedly with his mistress in tow. The burglar is forced to seek refuge inside a grandfather clock, while an array of increasingly confused spouses and lovers arrive. Before he knows it, the burglar – apparently the only one not having an affair – is forced to pretend to have multiple wives. If that wasn’t complicated enough, things take a turn when the burglar’s wife joins the party...

The Virtuous Burglar

In the aftermath of a nuclear meltdown at the power plant they helped build, two retired scientists have abandoned their home for a seaside cottage outside the contamination zone. From here Robin can tend to his cows and Hazel can keep order. Order is hope. And hope is life. But now a shiver ripples through the cottage, as they receive a visit from Rose, a former colleague, with a frightening offer. Death has come to call. An amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern Books.

The Children

Edinburgh in the 1700s – it's the Age of Enlightenment and there is a scandalous rumour of David Hume having a relationship with a much younger woman. Now Nancy is here to tell us her side of the story.

Nancy's Philosopher

From nursery school to cocktail parties, Joyce Grenfell conjured colourful characters for our pleasure. Spend time with Lumpy Latimer, Mrs Fanshawe and George in this timeless collection of songs and monologues.

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