Plenty of high-octane theatricality contained within this year’s programme

Theatre Joyce Mcmillan

severinthe age of Fergus Linehan, the idea of theatre in the 2018 Edinburgh International Festival is a moveable feast.

This year’s opera, dance and music programmes contain plenty of highoctane theatricality; so it’s fitting that the centrepiece of this year’s theatre programme – a three-show celebration of the work of Peter Brook’s great Paris theatre the Bouffes Du Nord – also includes an opera, Johann Christoph Pepusch’s brand new ver-