Please note that information on this page applies to our in-person programme in Edinburgh.
C aurora – our premier city centre hub venue
Features
Our newest hub venue, C aurora features multiple performance spaces in one location, centred around a welcoming courtyard. Lauriston Halls and the Sacred Heart Church have a distinguished festival tradition dating back to the earliest days of the Fringe. The main house black box space seating able to seat up to 150-200+ depending on format has a large stage and high ceiling, and is especially suited to for larger-scale theatre, dance, circus, musical theatre, music and children's shows. The flexible black box studio seats up to 50, and offers a choice of end-on, thrust, in-the-round, traverse, corner and cabaret layouts, and ideal for smaller-scale theatre, physical theatre, dance, music, cabaret, comedy, spoken word and storytelling. The ornate church space is ideal for music, choral works and site-specific theatre and performance, with options to perform in theatre format at the front of the nave to up to 300 audience, or in studio format in a flexible space at the rear of the nave for up to 50. The courtyard can be used for outdoor performances.
Location
C aurora is on Lauriston Street, just off West Port and Lauriston Place, close to the Grassmarket, West End, Lothian Road and Tolcross, offering easy access from all directions. There a café and bar in the courtyard. The venue is fully accessible for audience members.
Our popular Royal Mile venue at the Roman Eagle Lodge. One of the original Fringe venues, C aquila features the atmospheric 91-seat end-on temple theatre, with wood-panelled auditorium and a popular end-on 55-seat studio. Both spaces have a cabaret layout option.
Location
C aquila is the top of Johnston Terrace, opposite the international Festival Hub and close to C cubed. Access to performance spaces is by stairs (seated chairlift available).
C cubed – historic Royal Mile venue with flexible space
Features
Our Royal Mile venue at the Celtic Lodge, Brodie's Close, C cubed is one of the original Festival venues in an atmospheric 16th century building. The main space is a versatile flexible format black box theatre with raked seating for up to 79, offering thrust, in-the-round, and traverse formats, and an end-on studio format option with varying stage sizes for up to 65 seats. All formats can have a cabaret layout option.
Location
C cubed is on the Lawnmarket (Royal Mile), close to the International Festival Hub and Fringe Office, close to C aquila. There is a courtyard, café and bar. Accessible via stairs only.
We welcome applications from site-specific and found-space shows. We regularly programme work into found spaces within our existing venues, and our programme has featured shows performed in spaces as diverse as cellars, castles and historic monuments, corridors, cupboards, attics, vaults, balconies, kitchens, towers, toilets, hairdressers, cars, buses, the closes and courtyards of the Royal Mile, gardens churchyards and courtyards. We can assist with finding site-specific locations, or with licensing and managing locations aready identified.
New venues/other options
New venues can come on stream at any time, and some spaces can be reconfigured depending on need, so if you are looking for a format or capacity not listed, do ask, as we may be able to help.
