Edinburgh International Children's Festival 2025
Imaginate PresentsAbout
This year the Edinburgh International Children’s Festival celebrates its 35th year with an exciting line up of performances, running from 24 May – 1 June in venues around Edinburgh.
The Festival presents some of the world’s best theatre and dance for young people and their families, with performances that are deeply engaging, innovative and inspiring. This year’s festival features 13 productions from 7 countries, including two new exciting Scottish commissions. Audiences can expect a jam-packed of circus, dance, puppetry and theatre full of moments of joy and surprises to savour together.
Many of the shows will appeal to both children and adults, with family pleasers such as Grown Ups and Double You featuring adults behaving badly with hilarious consequence.
The Festival will open with Family Day on Saturday 24 May, a day of free pop-up performances, artist installations and activities for families in the National Museum of Scotland.
The Traverse Theatre is funded by Creative Scotland and The City of Edinburgh Council.
At the Traverse
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Grown Ups
A hilarious and absurd tragi-comedy about what happens to grown-ups when children are not looking.
Beneath The Snow
In this immersive show, two figures dressed in white, walk on a white carpet made of tissue paper. The young audience will discover this poetic and sensory universe which sparks their imagination…
The Pale Baron
A musical fable about an intimate friendship between two musicians during a regime that hunts down everything or anyone that is deemed superfluous or different.
If you have access requirements, please contact our Sales and Welcome Team on boxoffice@traverse.co.uk or 0131 228 1404 so we can arrange reserved seating for you and discuss how else we can best support your visit.
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