ALL EVENTS | 28 August, 2016 Order by: Date / title
Locked In: The Distillery Escape
Locked In Edinburgh
Work together as you undertake an interactive experience solving the mystery behind who is plotting the downfall of Pickering's Gin.
Us/Them
BRONKS, Big in Belgium, Richard Jordan, Theatre Royal Plymouth
In September 2004, during a school hostage drama in Beslan, the greatest of evils (terrorists) chose the greatest good (a group of children) as their victim. Us/Them is not a straightforward account of this terrible drama, but is about the entirely individual way children cope with extreme situations.
Waves
Alice Mary Cooper
The story of young Australian Elizabeth Moncello, the unofficial inventor of the famous butterfly stroke. An intimate theatrical event combines highly expressive storytelling, delicate movement and splashes of humour to tell Elizabeth’s amazing tale of a life fully lived. A true delight for audiences from eight to 80.
Stories to Tell in the Middle of the Night
Francesca Millican-Slater
Start your day with a live late night radio show for those that can't sleep, aren’t asleep.
Mikey and Addie
Andy Manley, Rob Evans and Red Bridge
Mikey is a sunny boy. He lives alone with his mum. Mikey's mum has a secret. It’s not well kept. Everyone knows it. Everyone except Mikey. Addie is a good girl. She doesn't tell lies. Her father makes sure of that. Addie tells the truth. It's what you have to do. Isn't it? It's hard to tell when your life will change. The day you wake up normal but end up falling far from everything you've ever known. Spinning into nothingness. Today is that day.
Lost in Blue
Debs Newbold and Nimble Fish
Moving and funny, Lost In Blue is a dynamic fusion of spoken word and performance storytelling created and performed by Debs Newbold, Storyteller for Shakespeare's Globe, and directed by John Wright, co-founder of Told by an Idiot.
World Without Us
Ontroerend Goed, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Vooruit, Richard Jordan Productions, Summerhall
Multiple Fringe First winners Ontroerend Goed return to Edinburgh with their new solo piece about the end of humanity and what comes after.
Taiwan Season: The Adventure of Puppets
Puppet Beings Theatre
A family show guaranteed to tickle the child in all of us. Two engaging and skilfully silly actors bring to life an array of ordinary objects, conjuring a DIY universe full of raucous fun and inventive play.
If There's Not Dancing at the Revolution, I'm Not Coming
Julia Croft
A rich contemporary performance collage of film scripts, pop songs, advertisements, elaborate costumes and dance reassembled to challenge the treatment of women’s bodies as spectacle in popular culture.
Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons
Walrus
This two-person show imagines a world where we’re forced to say less. It’s about what we say and how we say it; about the things we can only hear in the silence; about dead cats, activism, eye contact and lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons.
The Castle Builder
Vic Llewellyn and Kid Carpet
An emotional and hard rocking journey into the hearts and souls that exist on the outer limits of creativity and building regulations, The Castle Builder tells the true story of an inmate in a Norwegian psychiatric institute who over 5 years built a castle on a remote headland.
On the Conditions and Possibilities of Hillary Clinton Taking Me as Her Young Lover
Arthur Meek
Richard Meros BA has done the research and is here to tell us that, to save democracy from itself, Mrs Clinton needs to take a young lover – and that he’s the manifestly destined millennial for the job.
Beyond Price
Jack Klaff
Jack Klaff presents presenting highlights from those shows which couldn’t make it to this Festival.
Letters to Windsor House
Sh!t Theatre with Show and Tell
A loophole in the Postal Services Act says you can open other people’s mail under certain circumstances. This is that certain circumstance.
Love, Lies and Taxidermy
Paines Plough, Sherman Cymru and Theatr Clwyd
An offbeat love story about Mr Tutti Frutti, a stuffed owl and the struggle to fit in from writer Alan Harris (BBC Radio 4, National Theatre Wales, Sherman Cymru).
It Folds
Brokentalkers & Junk Ensemble
It Folds is a poignant, humorous portrait of death, grief, beauty and the extremes of the human condition from two of Ireland’s leading performance companies.
A Pickering’s Gin Jolly
Summerhall Distillery
Join us for a tour of Summerhall Distillery as we raise the curtain on how award-winning Pickering’s Gin is made.
Counting Sheep: A Guerrilla Folk Opera
Lemon Bucket Orkestra in association with Aurora Nova
A rousing call to arms, led by guerrilla-folk party-punks Lemon Bucket Orkestra. Based on the creators' first hand experiences during the 2014 Kiev uprising, Counting Sheep invites you to lose yourself in the events that changed the course of Ukraine's history forever.
One Hundred Homes
Yinka Kuitenbrouwer, Big in Belgium, Richard Jordan, Theatre Royal Plymouth
Join Yinka in her new Edinburgh home, a small wooden cabin specially built in Summerhall’s Courtyard, to experience an intimate performance. One Hundred Homes is an ongoing performance; each time that Yinka performs the play, she also visits people from the area, adding their stories to her archives.
Mairi Campbell: Pulse
Greengold Projects and Authentic Artist Collective
A homecoming in viola, voice, movement, animation and storytelling, Pulse is the story of Mairi Campbell's quest to heal cultural wounds.
Ubu on the Table
Théâtre de la Pire Espèce
In this award-winning adaptation of King Ubu by Alfred Jarry, anything goes as Poland's fate is sealed on a table top!
Don’t Panic! It’s Challenge Anneka
on the button
Inspired by real-life stories, Don't Panic... presents a frank, funny and open exploration of a topic that too often remains taboo: the challenge of overcoming anxiety.
Bubble Schmeisis
Written & Performed by Nick Cassenbaum. Directed by Danny Braverman (Wot? No Fish!!)
Bubbemeises is Yiddish for a grandmother’s story, a tall story, an old wives’ tale. Amongst the steam and ritual Nick will take you on a journey to find the place he belongs. Bubble Schmeisis is full of intimate and personal true stories about identity, home and getting schmeised (washed) by old men.
Denton and Me
Sam Rowe and Macrobert Arts Centre in association with Showroom
This multi-layered, stunningly designed show weaves together writer and performer Sam Rowe’s autobiography with the writing of Denton Welch (1915-1948), a fascinating figure in queer literary history, and favourite of Alan Bennett, William S Burroughs and John Waters.
Every Brilliant Thing
Paines Plough
The worldwide smash-hit is back. You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s done something stupid. She finds it hard to be happy. You make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Everything worth living for. 1. Ice Cream 2. Kung Fu Movies 3. Burning Things 4. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose 5. Construction cranes 6. Me A play about depression and the lengths we go to for those we love.
I’m Doing This for You
Never Mind the Noise / Haley McGee
Blending storytelling, live art and improvisation, this show is a big romantic gesture.
All the Things I Lied About
Katie Bonna and Paul Jellis in association with Soho Theatre
Would the world be a better place if we were all honest? Fringe First winner Katie Bonna (Dirty Great Love Story) is giving a TED talk on the science of lying.
How (Not) to Live in Suburbia
Annie Siddons
5 years ago in the middle of a shitstorm of life events, artist, single mother and committed urbanite Annie Siddons found herself living in suburbia by accident.
All In
Atresbandes
All In is a wild ride through vastly different worlds where everyday situations take unexpected turns into the absurd and intimate.
Remember to Breathe
Figure 8 Productions / Scary Biscuits Promotions
Mixing serious themes with warm humour, Remember to Breathe is a deeply moving play about moving home and moving on.
Tell Me Anything
On The Run with Show And Tell
On The Run return, following the five-star sell-out success of their debut, So It Goes, with a show about love, hopeless devotion and growing up. Directed by Christopher Harrisson (Rhum and Clay).
4D Cinema
Mamoru Iriguchi
Sporting a screen and a projector around his face, Mamoru Iriguchi turns himself into a mobile cinema. He explores what is live and what is pre-recorded, fixed eternally on film, and looks at what liveness means when technology blurs actual and virtual realities.
Scorch
Prime Cut Productions
A story of first love through the eyes of a gender-curious teen, Scorch examines how the human story often gets lost amidst the headlines. Inspired by recent court cases, Scorch won Best New Play at the 2015 Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards.
Blank
Aurora Nova
Known for plays without directors, sets and rehearsals, the acclaimed Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour takes it to extremes in his new play Blank. Each night the gap-riddled script is to be completed by a new performer and a live audience.
NEHH: NJTOS - Bill Wells and Wolf
Nothing Ever Happens Here
Not jazz, not a trio and not entirely Scottish, The National Jazz Trio of Scotland are Bill Wells (piano laptop), Aby Vulliamy (vocals, viola), Kate Sugden (vocals, marimba), and Gerard Black (vocals).
Heads Up
Kieran Hurley with Show And Tell
In just one moment, worlds will end. Multi award-winner Kieran Hurley (Beats, Chalk Farm, Hitch), with an original sonic score by Michael John McCarthy, weaves a picture of a familiar city at its moment of destruction, asking what would we do if we found ourselves at the end of our world as we know it.
Faslane
Jenna Watt in association with Showroom & Contact
Her Majesty's Naval Base Clyde, or Faslane, situated 40 miles outside Glasgow, is home to the UK's nuclear missile programme: Trident. With family having worked in Faslane all her life, and with friends protesting at the gates, Fringe First-winner Jenna Watt explores what happens when the personal and political collide.
Robert Newman: The Brain Show
Phil McIntyre Entertainments
After volunteering for a brain-imaging experiment meant to locate the part of the brain that lights up when you’re in love, Robert emerges with more questions than answers.
Doubting Thomas
Grassmarket Projects
Thomas McCrudden, a man with a tortured and violent past but with hope for a different future, tells his own story.
Jonny & the Baptists: Eat the Poor
Jonny & the Baptists
A riotous new musical comedy epic about friendship, inequality and betrayal.
(I Could Go on Singing) Over the Rainbow
FK Alexander with Okishima Island Tourist Association
With live accompaniment from Glasgow-based noise band Okishima Island Tourist Association, FK Alexander sings along to the recording of the last time Judy Garland ever sang Over The Rainbow, four months before her death.
Pianomorphosis
Will Pickvance
Part recital, part metamorphosis, this is the new solo performance by renowned Fringe virtuoso and wit Will Pickvance (Anatomy of the Piano, Alchemy of the Piano).
Only Bones
Kallo Collective in association with Aurora Nova
Only Bones is an award-winning new production by New Zealanders Thomas Monckton and Gemma Tweedie and Finland-based physical theatre company Kallo Collective. It uses body manipulation and bendy physicality to create an original piece of physical theatre.
The Road to Huntsville
Stephanie Ridings
‘I’m trying to understand why British women fall in love with men on death row. I’m corresponding with Jonny, incarcerated in Texas. I’m trying to understand how the death penalty fits into our world. I’m trying not to be judgmental.’ The Road to Huntsville explores unconventional love, state homicide and challenging preconceptions.
Bildraum
Atelier Bildraum, Big in Belgium, Richard Jordan, Theatre Royal Plymouth
Architect Steve Salembier and photographer Charlotte Bouckaert use architectural models, live photography, sounds and music to take the audience on a trip between 2D and 3D.
Ghost Quartet
Ghost Quartet
Ghost Quartet is a haunted song cycle about love, death, and whisky.
Camille
Kamila Klamut
Kamila Klamut’s performance, based on fragments of Camille Claudel’s letters, explores her life and work using text, sculptural costume and live music by Ewa Pasikowska. Kamila Klamut is a co-founder of award-winning Theatr ZAR and a regular collaborator with Song of the Goat Theatre and the Grotowski Institute.
Of, or at, a Fairly Low Temperature
Lewys Holt
OOAAFLT mixes contemporary dance with storytelling and comedy to question what is cool these days. In this semi-autobiographical show Lewys considers which is more important to him: to be cool or to be himself.
Last Call
Het nieuwstedelijk, Big in Belgium, Richard Jordan, Theatre Royal Plymouth
A teenage girl runs away from home to the city. Nobody notices but is there actually someone looking out for her?
Firecracker Records: Closing Party
Nothing Ever Happens Here... Presents
One-off night curated by Firecracker Recordings, the Edinburgh label with international reach and acclaim, specialising in oddball house, techno and electronics.
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