Name: Preview: Dàna with Ellie Beaton
Start: 2026-08-07T14:00:00
Location: Edinburgh International Festival

Ellie Beaton

Dàna

Edinburgh International Festival

Start your Festival with the sounds of these award-winning, emerging Scottish folk artists.

Preview: Dàna with Ellie Beaton

Over a weekend in a country estate, Arkadina, a celebrated actress, and her playwright son, Konstantin, pursue their artistic and romantic ambitions amidst a complex web of melodramatic characters, generational differences and fatal misunderstandings.

[seagull]

Studio Theatre Edinburgh

Begin your Festival with this rehearsal of the Festival’s sold out Opening Concert: Wynton Marsalis’s All Rise, a 12-movement jazz symphony honouring the 12-bar blues, blending global influences and tracing life from birth and play through struggle to joy and maturity.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Rehearsal

Usher Hall

Visionary Brazilian director Christiane Jatahy returns to the Festival with a radical sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, featuring Golden Globe-winning actor Wagner Moura.

A Trial – after An Enemy of the People

The Lyceum

Drawing on non-canonical gospels, ancient texts and poetry by Ruth Fainlight, this fascinating new work by Tansy Davies brings a fresh perspective to historically repressed voices. BBC Radio 3’s Kate Molleson has described Davies as a composer who ‘connects with body, spirituality and political convictions’. This bracing approach to both musical language and subject matter shapes her new dramatic work.

Dunedin Consort

The Queen's Hall

A cowboy is stuck in the desert. He’s got a price on his head: wanted – dead or alive. But right now, he needs water, shade from the sun and a chance to escape from those pesky snakes and vultures.

Hostile

Church Hill Theatre

Start your Festival with this resplendent jazz symphony embodying the human condition from Jazz at Lincoln Center and its Musical Director, Wynton Marsalis.