l Macbeth:
Jan 20-31
Filter Theatre have become masters of reinventing the classics, and follow up their production of Twelfth Night with a version of Macbeth that fuses the play with an innovative soundscape.
l The Garden: Jan 22-24
The Circle Studio has opera by the husband and wife artistic team of composer John Harris and writer/director Zinnie Harris. Originally commissioned by the Sound festival in Aberdeen, it is a tale of love and hope in a high-rise flat during the last days of the world.
l The Slab Boys: Feb 12-Mar 7
When John Byrne's work-shy Paisley teddy boys with ambitions beyond the factory floor first appeared in 1978 at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, the mix of baroque banter and working class experience redefined what was possible on the Scottish stage. David Hayman revisits the play in a production in which he appears.
l Long Live The Little Knife: Feb 24-28
David Leddy's play about art, forgery and castration is revived by Fire Exit company in the Circle Studio. A pair of small-time con artists attempt to become the world's greatest counterfeiters, despite their lack of skills.
l The Absence of War: Mar 31-Apr 3
David Hare's 1993 play was the final part of a trilogy that looked at the powers behind the British state and was inspired by the Labour Party defeat in the UK General Election a year earlier. Headlong's new production follows visits to the Citz with Medea, The Seagull and 1984.
l Lippy: Apr 8-11
Bush Markouzal's Herald Angel-winning Edinburgh hit drew inspiration from the deaths of three women who starved themselves to death. Dead Centre's production is an explosion of forms that questions notions of how you tell other people's stories. The Citz' first collaboration with the Arches Behaviour Festival.
l Fever Dream: Southside: Apr 23-May 9
Douglas Maxwell's first new play for some time is set in Glasgow's Govanhill district, where bringing up children in a neighbourhood awash with unique characters make for a surreal comic thriller that looks at the vagaries of community spirit and city life. Dominic Hill directs.
l Into That Darkness: May 18-30
Robert David Macdonald's adaptation of journalist Gitta Sereny's book based on 60 hours of interviews with Franz Stangl, the commandant of the Treblinka and Sobibor extermination camps, was first seen in the 1990s. The original production featured Macdonald as Stangl and Roberta Taylor who recently played Gertrude in Dominic Hill's production of Hamlet.
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