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Winter Solstice

Christmas Eve.  Bettina and her husband Albert aren’t happy - Bettina’s mother is staying for the holidays. Which is awkward. Not least because Bettina’s mother met a man on the train. And now she’s invited him around for drinks… Read more …

Family, betrayal and the inescapable presence of the past reverberate through the UK premiere of Roland Schimmelpfennig’s razor-sharp comedy about the rise of the new right across the globe.


The critical consensus

Alice Malin’s exposed and expansive production.

****(*)Neil Cooper, Coffee-Table Notes, 22/03/2018

This is a delightful, moving and surprising production by Actors Touring Company and Orange Tree Theatre and a wonderfully wrought warning tale of extremism.

****(*)Sean Robinson, The Wee Review, 22/03/2018

An insular depiction of a much wider problem that seems to know exactly what it's doing, even if the audience does not.

***(*)(*)Imogen Rowe, Edinburgh Guide, 23/03/2018

This is a delightful, moving and surprising production by Actors Touring Company and Orange Tree Theatre and a wonderfully wrought warning tale of extremism.

****(*)Sean Robinson, The Wee Review, 22/03/2018


Features about Winter Solstice

A family's liberal values are tested by a charming Nazi in Winter Solstice.

Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 21/03/2018e

Where and when?

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh from Wednesday March 21, 2018, until Saturday March 24, 2018. More info: www.traverse.co.uk

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