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    1. Rosie Frater-Taylor: "Featherweight" Tour

      Music at the Traverse

      Sun 19 May, 8PM

      Fast-emerging British singer-songwriter and guitarist Rosie Frater-Taylor is widely regarded as a virtuoso guitarist and a vocalist with a powerful emotional range and depth.

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    2. Dead Girls Rising

      Written and lyrics by Maureen Lennon,Music and lyrics by Anya Pearson

      Tue 21 - Thu 23 May, 7:30pm

      A furious coming-of-age punk cabaret show about trying to survive in a violent patriarchy, our deepest fears, and how we seek to control them.

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    3. Shooglenifty

      Music at the Traverse

      Fri 24 May, 8PM

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    4. Edinburgh International Children's Festival 2024

      Sat 25 May – Sun 2 Jun

      The Edinburgh International Children’s Festival is back, featuring 14 productions from 9 countries for children to discover.

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    5. Storm Lantern

      by Duncan Kidd

      Tue 4 - Thu 6 Jun, 8pm

      Caught by the Nazis distributing forbidden leaflets, Sophie Scholl is facing execution. Only one route remains: confession and betrayal of everything she stood for…

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    6. A dark room with a constellation of lights illuminating the back wall of the stage. On the floor, cream fabric is draped over bumps on the floor creating the illusion of sand while a small paper boat is hanging above it in the center.

      The Last Pearl

      Based on the ideas of environmentalist James Lovelock

      Thu 6 - Sat 8 Jun, 7:30PM

      A strong visual theatre piece using scaled models as well as bunraku and shadow puppetry that tells the story of a woman in the aftermath of a typhoon.

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    7. Maggie & Me

      Written by Damian Barr and James Ley, adapted from the memoir by Damian Barr. Directed by Suba Das.

      Wed 12 - Sat 15 Jun

      “Don’t you worry. I’ll always love you. Love doesn’t run out. It’s not like the gas meter. I’ll find extra love.” 

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    8. Lie Low

      by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth

      Wed 12 - Sat 15 Jun, 8PM

      A darkly funny new play exploring the human brain via the genitals.

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    9. TIDE 1: It's Not the End of the World

      by Rachel O'Regan

      Wed 19 & Sat 22 Jun

      Porty Beach: not only the perfect place to see a once-in-a-lifetime meteor shower, but also your ideal venue for a full-blown existential crisis.

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    10. TIDE 2: Adrift

      by Isla Cowan

      Thu 20 & Sat 22 Jun

      It’s been 15 weeks since the huge hole appeared. 15 weeks since Anna went missing; they say she was last seen heading into the sea. Everyone wants to move on – except Jenny.

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    11. A clear bottle with a rolled up message inside it and a cork top in the foreground with the sea in the background.

      TIDE 3: My Kind of Weird

      by James Beagon

      Fri 21 & Sat 22 Jun

      Romantic rendezvouses and excruciating entanglements collide in this new, almost-Shakespearean, anti rom-com.

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    12. A polaroid photo with a heart and 'x' drawn on the white space at the bottom. The polaroid is of a woman laying in a field of yellow daffodils. She is blowing a kiss at the camera and has a checkered pink, orange, purple, red and black shawl wrapped around her shoulders.

      So Young

      TravFest24 by Douglas Maxwell

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      From the writer of I Can Go Anywhere and The Whip Hand, Douglas Maxwell’s So Young sees an innocuous evening slide into ruin as old friends face the challenges of middle age, growing apart and losing those close to them

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