Home to the Edinburgh University Theatre Company, the Bedlam Theatre is the oldest student-run theatre in Britain. Clearly visible from Edinburgh’s Royal Mile in the heart of the city, Bedlam is a fully operational 90-seat repertory theatre housed in an imposing neo-gothic church.
The building was originally the New North Free Church, built in 1848, near the site of the Edinburgh’s Darien House Hospital or ‘Bedlam’ as it was commonly referred. In 1937 the congregation moved and the University of Edinburgh took over the occupation of the building, using it as the University’s Chaplaincy for 16 years among other uses such as a furniture store.
In 1980, the building was given to the EUTC, who named the building Bedlam Theatre and have been there ever since.
