Murdo Macleod's Edinburgh festival - in pictures

The week began with a piece by the French company Ballet Preljocaj, presenting the first of their two Edinburgh programmes, entitled And Then, One Thousand Years of Peace Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

Another scene from And Then, One Thousand Years of Peace Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

A change of pace – sketch trio Pappy's at the Pleasance, who have just been shortlisted for this year's Edinburgh comedy awards Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

Nathalie Marie Verbeke and Charlotte de Bruyne in XXXO at the Pleasance Courtyard, a potent piece that focuses on two young women who spend their time looking at disturbing images on the web Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses by Tick Tock Productions, part of the Assembly's South African season Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

Miriam Margolyesg getting into character in in Dickens' Women at the Pleasance Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

Ballet Preljocaj's second programme: Helikopter, choreographed by Angelin Preljocaj with music by Karlheinz Stockhausen and performed in tandem with Birmingham Opera Company's live performance of the score several hundred miles south Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

Another scene from Ballet Preljocaj's Helikopter Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

The second part of Ballet Preljocaj's second programme, entitled Eldorado (Sonntags Abschied) Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

Anthony Rapp in Without You at the Cow Barn, a reflection on his time in the showstopping musical Rent Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

Bigmouth at Summerhall by SKaGeN and performed by Valentijn Dhaenens. Dhaenens pays a tribute to 2500 years of oration using speeches from people both famous and mysterious Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

Camille O'Sullivan making a barnstorming international festival debut in the RSC's adaptation of The Rape of Lucrece, Shakespeare's little-known narrative poem Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

The biggest event of the festival's final weekend is the transformation of an anonymous exhibition venue into the Cartoucherie – the Parisian home of the world-renowned company Théâtre du Soleil Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

The company is here to perform their four-hour show Les Naufragés du Fol Espoir, a collectively devised piece loosely based on a posthumous novel by Jules Verne Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

A character appears behind a porthole Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian