Edinburgh International Festival

This extraordinary youth orchestra performs with period instruments and for this concert has tripled its usual size, boasting 60 players.

25 August at Usher Hall
More informational and tickets available from: eif.co.uk/eubo

Credit: Different Films

Australian comedian Frank Woodley leads a wonderful bunch of clowns in this remarkable road trip. Religion, sex, disease and philosophy all cross our hero's path as he travels across five continents through a multitude of moods. For more information head to eif.co.uk/optimism

By Ong Keng Sen
15 - 16 Aug
Edinburgh Playhouse

Diaspora is a sweeping, panoramic performance exploring memory, migration, assimilation and the triumph of the human spirit.

eif.co.uk/diaspora

Gabrielle de Vietri engages the public in acts of communication. Hark!, greets you as you arrive at the portico of the Dean Gallery. Singers relate the news, horoscopes, stock exchange information and other current affairs of the day, recalling the way information was delivered to people prior to the Enlightenment and mass literacy.

eif.co.uk/gabrielle-de-vietri-hark

The first of three part Festival introduction by Director Jonathan Mills