The Flyting
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026
(Fri 7-Thu 27 Aug)
Enlightenment Edinburgh. Robert Burns and Walter Scott meet only once, at a salon in the Sciennes home of Adam Fergusson. Or so history tells us.
In the School of Scottish Studies archives, a Scottish Traveller recounts another version; a fantastical gathering of 'all the great writers', locked in poetic flyting – until tragedy strikes.
Scots folksinger Kirsty Law weaves together documented fact, imagined rivalry and a childhood memory of hearing the tale in the very building where it happened. A meditation on truth and fiction, and on the ordinary people who quietly carry on Scotland's living tradition.
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Theatre
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£14.00 -
7-27 August 2026 -
60 minutes -
Scottish Storytelling Centre Fringe -
George Mackay Brown Library -
12+
