Class Enemy, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
Ruhe, The Hub, Edinburgh
365, Playhouse, Edinburgh

Looking in advance at this year’s Edinburgh International Festival theatre programme, it seemed to contain interesting choices of what was likely to be uninteresting work. Director Jonathan Mills and his team were laudably eschewing his predecessor’s tendency simply to re-invite the usual auteur suspects from the international festival circuit, but there appeared few prospects of “water-cooler talk” for theatregoers.

In the event, much of the programme has been compelling. We have seen two disparate productions from TR Warszawa, the beautiful Jidariyya from the Palestinian National Theatre, and a video installation by the Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, Looking At Tazieh, which focused on the audience at a performance of the Shia equivalent of a Passion play and proved fascinating once one tuned in to its approach. In the past week, however, that interest has begun to fall away.