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Gilded Balloon Patter House

2 Commercial Street, Edinburgh EH6 6JA
Edinburgh

Gilded Balloon Patter House is a theatre in Scotland.

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Review: ANTIGONE, Tron Theatre

Review: ANTIGONE, Tron Theatre

by Natalie O'Donoghue · September 22, 2026

The battle has been won; the soldiers have returned victorious and the dead have been buried. But not all of them. Antigone’s brother has been deemed a traitor and must be punished, even in death.…

Review: FEEL GOOD, Òran Mór

Review: FEEL GOOD, Òran Mór

by Natalie O'Donoghue · September 20, 2026

Henry never expected his first girlfriend, Liz, to turn up at his flat. Especially not as a sex robot.…

Review: SIX, Festival Theatre

Review: SIX, Festival Theatre

by Natalie O'Donoghue · September 16, 2026

From Tudor Queens to Pop Princesses, the six wives of Henry VIII take to the mic to tell their tales, remixing five hundred years of historical heartbreak into an 80-minute celebration of 21st century girl power. These Queens may have green sleeves but their lipstick is rebellious red.…

Review: TRANSPARENT, Oran Mor

Review: TRANSPARENT, Oran Mor

by Natalie O'Donoghue · September 12, 2026

Barry feels like he’s slowly fading into the background of his own life. Clare, after a recent loss, feels like she’s unravelling in hers. A chance encounter in a crowded bar means they both end up on a night out together, where sparks fly. Will they both see what’s right in front of them? …

Review: EMERGENCE, Theatre Royal

Review: EMERGENCE, Theatre Royal

by Natalie O'Donoghue · September 11, 2026

Enter a mesmerising underworld where human-kind dissolves into something altogether more elemental.…

Review: BURLESQUE, King's Theatre

Review: BURLESQUE, King's Theatre

by Natalie O'Donoghue · September 9, 2026

From executive producer Christina Aguilera and written by Steven Antin, based on the hit movie, Burlesque invites you to a club like no other: a hidden world beneath the city lights where sequins sparkle, seduction shimmers and lives can change in the flick of a feather boa.…

Review: READY TAE DRAP, Oran Mor

Review: READY TAE DRAP, Oran Mor

by Natalie O'Donoghue · September 5, 2026

A rabbit, a refugee and a racist get stuck in a lift... That sounds like the start of a bad joke but for high rise residents Lauren, Aaliyah and Pat, it’s a night they’ll never forget.…

Review: ONE HUNDRED VOICES, Citizens Theatre

Review: ONE HUNDRED VOICES, Citizens Theatre

by Natalie O'Donoghue · September 5, 2026

One Hundred Voices is an interactive, audio-guided installation, bringing creative insight into living in the care system. It serves as an artistic act of recognition and celebration of the one hundred testimonies recorded through the Caring Scotland project.…

Review: 1984, Citizens Theatre

Review: 1984, Citizens Theatre

by Natalie O'Donoghue · September 4, 2026

The Thought Police monitor every word you say. Children spy on their parents and the Party has abolished the truth. In this totally controlled world, Winston and Julia begin a love affair which catapults them into rebellion against the Party.…

Book Review: SEETHING LANE, by Jack Jewers, Moonflower Books

Book Review: SEETHING LANE, by Jack Jewers, Moonflower Books

by Louise Penn · September 2, 2026

Jewers returns to Samuel Pepys as a subject of fiction following his debut novel, The Lost Diary of Samuel Pepys (2022). At the start of Seething Lane, Pepys is again looking for signs of corruption in and outside of the Court, but when violent death raises its head, he realises it is folly to t…

Past Shows

15 total · showing 1–10

A Queer Little Murder

Aug 5 – Aug 31, 2026

A Queer Little Murder is a riotous interactive comedy that combines the thrills of a classic whodunnit with a distinctly queer twist. Written and performed by Savannah Hankinson, the show drops audiences into a tiny, suspiciously fabulous town where a murder has taken place and...

In a Bad Way

In a Bad Way

Aug 5 – Aug 31, 2026

Gr is sick. With what, she's not sure. Blood clots, maybe? Foreign Accent Syndrome, possibly? Bum cancer most definitely; the ginger one from Desperate Housewives has it, like. In a GP in Dublin, she's with the Doctor (for the fifth time this month) and she won't rest until she...

In A Bad Way

Aug 5 – Aug 31, 2026

In A Bad Way is a fast-paced, darkly comedic one-woman show written and performed by Irish playwright Isolde Fenton, exploring health anxiety and the lengths people go to in search of certainty. The play follows Grá, a young Limerick woman, who returns to a GP surgery on Dame...

Puck Bunnies: A Heated Rivalry Drag Musical Parody

Aug 5 – Aug 31, 2026

Puck Bunnies is a drag musical parody of the TV show Heated Rivalry, written by Kyra Brown and filmmaker Christan Leonard, starring Brown and Hanna Barlow as Drag Kings Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander respectively. The 8-person ensemble cast features women, queer, trans, and...

Sobremesa

Aug 5 – Aug 31, 2026

Sobremesa is an intimate drama about sisterhood, memory and misogyny written by Agnes Perry-Robinson and directed by Felix Sutton, presented as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. On Alma's birthday, her sister Billie brings her new boyfriend to dinner, and as wine flows and...

Stayin’ Alive

Stayin’ Alive

Aug 5 – Aug 31, 2026

Maggie's nan is dead, her therapist is useless, and her sister is threatening to knock her out. Maggie? She's still in her nan's house. The walls are closing in, but somewhere between the Blue Anchor pub, a couple of dodgy tribute acts and a broken Alexa, she might figure out...

Tap Out! (Or I'll Hit You Again)

Tap Out! (Or I'll Hit You Again)

Aug 5 – Aug 31, 2026

Realising that his life is going nowhere, a man decides to go out in a mask and pick fights with random people on the street. He knows it's reckless and amoral, but he doesn't care – it's liberating. He feels like a "man". And as he gets a taste for it, the consequences of these...

A Queer Little Murder

A Queer Little Murder

Aug 5 – Aug 30, 2026

When a dead body is discovered in a small and incredibly queer town, the audience must decide who committed the murder. Every queer stereotype is a suspect in this whodunnit!

A Stan Is Born! – Encore

Aug 6 – Aug 30, 2026

A Stan Is Born! is an award-winning camp and heartfelt musical comedy about a queer kid's obsession with pop divas and the search for the diva within. Born in New York and uprooted to rural Germany, Alexis Sakellaris finds salvation in Céline, Whitney, Mariah, Beyoncé and more...

Alexis Sakellaris: Child Star (Work in Progress)

Aug 6 – Aug 30, 2026

Child Star is a work-in-progress solo show in which Alexis Sakellaris revisits their brush with child stardom after being cast in a German Glee-style TV show, Wir rocken Barcelona. At age 15, Alexis was taken to Spain to film a musical reality series, only to discover the truth...

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