The Easter Story told live in the
heart of Edinburgh

Image of Jesus' mother holding his feet on the Cross

Photo Credit @ Grant Bulloch

2025 Production

Cast Wanted
Just come along!
Next year will be our 20th Anniversary. Come and join us! Rehearsals are open to anyone! Wednesday evenings 7 – 9pm at Gorgie Dalry Stenhouse Church, 190 Gorgie Road EH11 2NX

Thanks to all who came along and supported the play this year despite it being a very wet week leading up to it! Huge thanks to the Park Keepers who arranged to have the flood water removed! Some quotes from this year’s production:

“Many many congratulations to all the cast, crew and everyone connected with this fantastic performance. Every year the production gets better and better. Congratulations once again”

“Thank you so much, the production was absolutely brilliant. We will never forget it. The hyper-realism of having Jesus and the cast walking through the very gardens which we know so well was a really powerful dimension. So it felt like they were with us in real time, that they had literally made a visit to us in our home city. It was quite surreal in this way”

Next year is the 20th year of there being a Passion Play in the Gardens. The fundraising begins now. If you can donate to the play, that would be amazing. We rely on donations and grants and sadly, have no finance in the pot for next year – yet! We live in faith that we can produce again and for many years to come…

2024 Easter Play Photo Credit @bulloch.photography

Benefits of being in The Easter Play – the cast speak out!

https://youtu.be/w9-BL_2wrY8

For more information about previous versions of the play, visit our The story so far page.

Watch the 2022 Easter Play here

Appeal for Donations

We are ever grateful for your donations so far. As costs continue to rise, we welcome your generous contributions: please spread the word or donate here.

£10 could go towards the cost of costumes
£25 could support our access provision project
£50 could contribute to the hiring of technical equipment
£100+ could help us meet the costs of hiring a professional actor in the role of Jesus

  • Use our Stewardship account to make a one-off donation or become a regular supporter. Note: Stewardship will invite you to create an account. If you’d rather not do this, simply select the option “Continue as guest”.
  • If you would rather make a direct payment, send us an email at cuttingedge21@btinternet.com or call us on 0131 652 0968.

Join our ‘Lost Supper’ appeal: you could donate the cost of a coffee or an evening meal to support our project. This website gets about 5000 viewers per year. If most viewers donated the cost of a coffee, we would be able to cover the entire cost of an entire production. Would it not be great to have 5,000 “feed” our production?

Thank you!

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