Edinburgh International Festival unveils 2015 programme
The programme for the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival has been revealed, with a host of world premieres and one-offs planned across theatre, dance and music.
In theatre, the Festival will host the world premiere of David Greig’s stage adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s seminal Scottish novel Lanark, celebrating Gray's 80th birthday and the 70th anniversary of Glasgow's Citizens Theatre, which is co-producing the show. Elsewhere, Oscar-nominated actress Juliette Binoche is set to star in Ivo van Hove’s Antigone, and 2013 Fringe hit Paul Bright's Confessions of a Justified Sinner returns for an International Festival run.
In music, Sufjan Stevens and the FFS collaboration between Sparks and Franz Ferdinand are set to play major gigs at the Playhouse and Festival Theatre respectively, while Wave Movements will see the Scottish Chamber Orchestra perform compositions by Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire) and Bryce Dessner (The National).
In the Festival’s new strand of late-night music events, King Creosote will play his soundtrack to archive documentary From Scotland With Love, Anna Calvi is to team up with the Heritage Orchestra, and Daniel Lopatin – aka Oneohtrix Point Never – will perform a newly-composed soundtrack for Katsuhiro Otomo’s anime Magnetic Rose.
The 2015 Festival opens and closes with two major outdoor events. The Harmonium Project, produced in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh’s Informatics department, will see a series of animations projected on the side of the Usher Hall set to John Adams’s Harmonium on 7 Aug, while the traditional Fireworks Concert closes the Festival on 31 Aug.
The 2015 Edinburgh International Festival runs from 7-31 Aug; tickets for all events at this year’s Festival go on sale on Sat 28 Mar at 10am.