An initiative from the Edinburgh Festival Theatres Trust is going some way to help young professionals get themselves seen.  They have established a company, the Attic Collective, of actors from 18 to 25 who will perform three shows in the course of the year, one classic, one new and one musical.  I imagine that membership of the company will be restricted to one year but it's a good crack of the whip for them.


I went to their first production.  It was a version of Lysistrata and was well done, imaginative and entertaining, if a bit shouty.  Aristophanes' play is generally described as a bawdy anti-war comedy.  This version was certainly bawdy with a profusion of giant inflatable penises adding to the fun and a fair sprinkling of Trump inspired sexual jokes.

Photo Greg Mcvean

I'm looking forward to seeing what they do later in the year with The Threepenny Opera which will be set in today's Edinburgh.