KICKING things off at The Brunton in Musselburgh on Friday is Errol White’s Breathe.

In this tender new work by the Errol White Company, a series of encounters explore the remnants of lives and the dust of a shared history.

Using the vocabulary of the body, these articulate and committed performers test the boundaries that exist at the edge of one’s own personal space.

Against an uncompromising sound and lighting backdrop, the dancers shift through suspended moments in time, between reality and memory, both present and absent.

Errol White Company has been producing high-quality work across Scotland since 2009 and the show gets under way at 7.30pm in the Theatre.

Saturday sees the unforgettable story of two of the finest Great War poets, Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, their friendship, interdependency and poetry.

Blackeyed Theatre, in association wirh South Hill Park presents Not About Heroes, which goes through the letters and poems of these two men.

Stephen MacDonald’s acclaimed play paints a vivid and moving picture of their friendship and the conflict that brought them together.

One hundred years on from the beginning of the First World War, Not About Heroes explores love, war and a friendship that changed the face of British poetry.

It gets under way at 7.30pm in the theatre.

Rounding off the week on Thursday in the theatre at 7.30pm is Mull Theatre’s The Drawer Boy.

In 1972 Canada an eager-eyed young actor, Miles, arrives on a small farm to do research for a role in a play about country life.

He moves in with two middle-aged farmers: stoical Morgan, who is not too thrilled with the self-absorbed city boy, and Angus, who lost his short-term memory after being bombed in the war.

Miles soon finds himself embroiled in their complex and intricate personal histories as he uncovers a past riddled with secrecy and heartbreak.

For tickets and more information for all shows, call 0131 665 2240 or visit thebrunton.co.uk