Performance The Tetra-Decathlon is a gruelling 14-event athletics competition, requiring a unique combination of skills to complete. Having never set foot on a running track in her life, Lauren Hendry decided to sign up for the event, joining only a dozen … Lauren Hendry : Tetra-Decathlon
Performance A Belgian popstar moves to London to steal the job of British popstars. Luckily, austerity is there to stop her. A witty pop-opera about a girl called Nele who turns her life into a big international mess because she wants … Nele Van den Broeck : Nele Needs a Holiday
Performance Step into this unassuming Alcoholics Anonymous meeting where twisted storytelling and spectacular circus skills are shaken and stirred, with one part dark comedy, one part serenity and three parts hostility, hilarity and honesty. On at Summerhall from the 1st to … Jess Love : Notorious Strumpet and Dangerous Girl
Visual Arts LIFE DURING WARTIME is a survey of paintings exploring themes of military, social and political conflict around the world dating from the artist’s appointment as the Imperial War Museum’s official artist for the Gulf War of 1990-91. On at Summerhall … John Keane : Life During Wartime
Visual Arts Venue: Anatomy / Dissection Room corridor & stairwell, Summerhall CAT (Creative, Aesthetic,Transgression) started life several years ago as a social media project. The CAT mask became an emblem of protest spread via social media in 2014. CAT masks, handmade by … Jane Frere : #PROTESTMASKPROJECT
Visual Arts KURT SCHWITTERS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING : STORY AND DISPERSAL, LEGACY AND (RE)POSSESSION On the 70th anniversary of Kurt Schwitters death The Times announced that Schwitters’ last (place of) work, the MERZ Barn in Elterwater, Cumbria might be bought by … David Rushton : Kurt Schwitters has left the building
Visual Arts KURT SCHWITTERS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING : STORY AND DISPERSAL, LEGACY AND (RE)POSSESSION On the 70th anniversary of Kurt Schwitters death The Times announced that Schwitters’ last (place of) work, the MERZ Barn in Elterwater, Cumbria might be bought by … David Rushton : Kurt Schwitters has left the building
Performance A Generous Lover is the true, and very queer tale, of one soul’s journey through the wasteland of mental illness, to deliver their lost love. Brimming with psychedelic proletarian prose, and trenchant wit, it recounts the pandemonium of navigating mental … La JohnJoseph : A Generous Lover
Performance Music’s power has erased boundaries before, but can it make us feel connected as citizens, even after Brexit? Last year, theatre maker Marieke Dermul researched if such a thing as a European identity or a common European sense exists. With … Marieke Dermul : European Citizen Popsong
Performance The makers of BigMouth return with a thrilling, relevant new show, delving deeply into the politician’s life and exposing those juicy backstage scenes we all look for and asking why anyone seeks recognition in a job that is known to … Vincent Stuer and Valentijn Dhaenens : Unsung
Performance After a long military career, life back on civvy street should be a breeze… right? Tommy’s observations on the absurdities of the everyday are “comic and convincing” (InDaily) and “fabulously witty” (TheClothesline.com.au). On at Army at the Fringe from the … Tim Marriott : Shell Shock
Performance The Delusion of Home is a strong and original documentary-style depiction of everyday life in the Chiayi area of southern Taiwan, refracted through one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. Oyster farming and Taoist funeral rites are as much of a touchstone … Jhao-Chin Wing : The Delusion of Home
Performance The team behind last year’s five-star double-bill, Love+ and BlackCatfishMusketeer, is back. This one’s for anyone who wants to be tickled, provoked, or has a brain and has ever worried about what it’s not telling them. On at Summerhall from … Claire O’Reilly : Everything Not Saved
Performance Sun Son Theatre return to Summerhall after the success of Heart of Darkness in 2017, welcoming you to a light-hearted world of live action and hand-crafted animation. Originally created by visual artist/actor Liu Wan Chun, this disarming show is a … Low Pei Fen : Once Upon a Daydream
Performance Love Letters from Blackpool, a comedy theatre piece about love and Blackpool, originally commissioned by The Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester and subsequently nominated for Best New Show at Leicester Comedy Festival and Best Comedy Show at Greater Manchester Fringe, uses … Ruth E. Cockburn : Love Letters from Blackpool
Theatre Ever since he was a kid Nick has loved Michael Barrymore. In this heartfelt and playful tribute, Nick invites you to examine the turbulent relationship between showman and spectator. Nick Cassenbaum : My Kind of Michael
Theatre Duckie is a reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling with a message of tolerance and self acceptance at its core. Family-friendly glamour and glitz takes centre stage as critically acclaimed cabaret star Le Gateau Chocolat breaks out of … Le Gateau Chocolat : Duckie
Theatre ‘Blackouts were the worst. Blackouts made me forget… Thank God for blackouts.’ Meet the woman who finds herself urinating off the top of the Scott Monument in Edinburgh. The man who nearly burns down a stranger’s kitchen. The mother who … Mark Jeary : Blackout
Music Performance Named stand-out cabaret of the year by the NZ Herald, Valerie is an inter-generational, interdisciplinary and interrupting piece of theatre reaching into the guts of family mythologies. Music, genetics, and storytelling combine to unravel one family’s history. A love letter … Cherie Moore : Valerie
Music Performance A blistering punk theatre gig about our civil liberties and our capacity to resist – with an original soundtrack played live. In Brisbane, Australia, 1979, Prehistoric follows Deb, Nick, Pete and Rachel as they meet at a gig, start a … Brigid Gallacher and Zach Pidd : PrehistoricPrehistoric
Performance An antique magic lantern projector, an iPhone 6 and a live musical score shine a new light on Samuel Butler’s classic sci-fi novel. A Victorian explorer discovers a colony of refugees; time travellers from the 21st century escaping their dependence … Arthur Meek and Eva Prowse : Erewhon
Performance Paris. 1650ish. Impotence is illegal. When a member of the aristocracy is accused of being less than upstanding, his wounded pride leads him towards a monumental and very public flop. But can a cast of total idiots save a show … Ted Lishman and Iain Gibbons : The Flop
Performance After a sell-out run at the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, nostalgic bookseller Lewis and party-boy Glen are back in this hit gay romantic comedy set in 1980s Edinburgh. Love Song to Lavender Menace is a funny, celebratory play about the … Pierce Reid and Matthew McVarish : Love Song to Lavender Menace
Performance Sophie works in a shop. She suffers from an irrational fear of eggs. Her nipples are behaving strangely and a black hole has appeared in her neighbourhood that could be / probably is a pervert. While precocious eight year olds … Hannah Mamalis : The Egg is a Lonely Hunter
Performance What happens when memories disappear? Where do they go, and can we get them back? Using just his voice and a Roland TD-4KP electronic drumkit, Antosh Wojcik explores the effects of inherited Alzheimer’s on speech, memory and family. Poems become … Antosh Wojcik : How to Keep Time
Performance The boiler’s broken, the owl with the rings is missing, the celebrant’s late and the band haven’t turned up. Can Mona and Geoff still tie the knot and live happily ever after? This is a wedding you won’t forget. An … Kate Nelson : Handfast
Theatre Big Aftermath explores how lives can turn on a word and the allure of the self-destruct button. Comedy and tragedy collide in a play about what happens when one person wants to go and the other wants them to stay. … Alice Malin and Sam Callis : Big Aftermath of a Small Disclosure
Performance Four women, forced together as their homes are evacuated by police, squeeze into a saree shop where it doesn’t take long for tensions to rise. Critically acclaimed musicians Novasound collaborate with playwright and performer Belle Jones to present Closed Doors … Belle Jones and Lauren Gilmor : Closed Doors
Theatre People Show are the UK’s oldest experimental theatre collective. Defying definition and constantly pushing the boundaries of live performance, the company continues to explore the world around us. Each show has been numbered. This is People Show 130. On at … Fiona Creese and Gareth Brierley : The Last Straw
Theatre Vivid and lyrical, Extinguished Things is a captivating exploration of what it means to spend your life with someone, and the nature of what you leave behind. On at Summerhall from the 1st to the 26th at 19.25 (except the … Molly Taylor and Jade Lewis : Extinguished Things
