Summerhall TV

Liz Carruthers introduces the Gaelic version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Macbheatha. Featuring a cast of two, the play focuses on the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, and their eventual downfall. Macbheatha is on at 14.00, in the Demonstration Room, Summerhall, …

Flitting between Margaret Thatcher, Marilyn Monroe and Virginia Woolf, Susanna Hislop explores definitions, diagnoses, and bipolar disorder, which Woolf, and possibly Monroe had. Faintly autobiographical in parts, the show aims to take a funny yet still serious look at key …

To mark the 50th birthday of the Forth Road Bridge, renowned Scottish landscape artist, Kate Downie has been appointed as Artist in Residence by the Forth Estuary Transport Authority. Featuring a mix of large-scale charcoal drawings, chinese ink paintings and …

Based on an idea by Robert McDowell, and combining the talents of a group of musicians, Wyckham Porteous introduces Songs of Orwell Farm, a musical journey based on Orwell’s Animal Farm story. Songs of Orwell Farm is on at 19.30, …

Matthew Zajac from Dogstar Theatre Company introduces their play Factor 9, which centres around the contamination of NHS blood leading on to thousands of haemophiliacs receiving infected blood, and many developing Hepatitus C and HIV. It is considered to be …

The Art Shed aims to present new work from emerging artists to a wider audience as part of Edinburgh’s Just Festival. Situated by St John’s Church, at the West End of Princes Street, artists can make work to show in …

All of it hinges on the arousal of curiosity. Q-poetics does not impose a performance, a poet or a poem on those lining up to pay, purchase or pass…but works to arouse curiosity and weave dialogues through those lines in …

Artistic Director of Unfolding Theatre, Annie Rigby, presents the company’s new show ‘Lands of Glass’, which brings best-selling Italian novelist Alessandro Baricco’s wonderful, hilarious world of imagination to UK audiences for the first time, featuring live music played on specially …

Noah Tomson and Harriet Braine from Theatre Paradok introduce their musical based on F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Diamond as Big as the Ritz; a grotesque allegory of the American Dream. A provincial young man, John, visits his wealthy school friend …

Inez van Dam vs. Kabouter Buttplug. Inez van Dam lives in Rotterdam straight opposite the so-called Buttplug Gnome by artist Paul McCarthy. She thinks this work of art is ruining her street and she wants to travel to Los Angeles …

As part of GENERATION, Tramway presents a selection of curated screenings of artists’ films and video from Scotland. Isla Leaver Yap has curated Trigger Tonic Compendium, a documentary piece created by Anne-Marie Copestake, which features footage from 1999 to 2004 …

David Wood and Jon Haynes explore early onset psychoses and schizophrenia in their piece ‘The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland’. The piece deals with a family in crisis over time, exploring the mother and son’s journey. The audience are …

Painter Anne Barclay introduces her exhibition, which is part of the Pittenweem Arts Festival, from her studios which she set up with a friend. Find out more at http://www.pittenweemartsfestival.co.uk/

Helen Aldrich introduces her solo show ‘Head in the Clouds: The Peregrinations of Marie Marvingt’, which explores the colourful lie of aviator, mountaineer, journalist, amongst many other things, of Marie Marvingt. Alrich plays all the parts in this story about …

Artist Bruce Shaw introduces his work from this year’s Pittenweem Arts Festival. Primarily working in pencil and pen, Shaw creates atmospheric pieces that draw inspiration from literature. Working up in Dundee, Shaw also frequents DCA’s print studio, making use of …

Painter Marian Leven has had a lifelong passion for painting landscapes, and has been hugely influenced by the Scottish coastline. Leven has worked with a variety of materials over the years including oil, acrylic and water colours on canvas. Leven …

Artistic Director of Barrowland Ballet Natasha Gilmore, introduces their dance theatre performances Tiger and Tiger Tale, which centre around a troubled family, and a tiger who appears and causes chaos. Two versions of the work are performed, Tiger Tale is …

Painter Lynn McGregor exhibits her work at this year’s Pittenweem Arts Festival. McGregor works between Scotland and Ireland, currently living on the otherwise uninhabited island of Islandmore on Strangford Lough, with writer husband Michael Faulkner. Find out more at http://www.pittenweemartsfestival.co.uk/index.php

Leading new music group Ensemble Thing presents two extraordinary works examining the human condition in the 21st century. John De Simone’s Panic Diary is a deeply personal work about living with an anxiety disorder where the composer and audience alike …

Jade Huang introduces the story behind Misa-Lisin. This spectacular performance combines dancing, singing and story telling in an energetic act of humanity and the motherland. Misa Lisin represents ceremonies from tribes across Taiwan. Find out more at http://festival14.summerhall.co.uk/event/misa-lisin/

Alexandra Kazazou and Matej Matejka introduce their show Charmolypi, which is currently on at Summerhall. The performance is a sort of map charting the thoughts of a woman who struggles with the uncertainty of what is a dream and what …

Alister Lownie and Katherina Radeva introduce their performance Near Gone. Two performers have a difficult story to tell. They come on stage and launch themselves into an hour long attempt to put into words the utterly unspeakable. Delivered in English and …

Exploring the often difficult subjects of life and death, Duck, Death and the Tulip is a warm tale about the unlikely friendship between a duck and death. The play takes the audience on a journey through life with the use of mime, …

Director Andrew Tsao brings to Summerhall a world premiere of his piece, The Waste Land Sisters, which combines the work of T.S Elliot and Chekov with puppetry and imaginative staging. The Waste Land Sisters is on at 12.20, in the …

Chiara Taviani and Carlos Massari from the C&C Company present their show, Maria Addolorata, which combines physical theatre and music to explore the feeling of pain and suffering. Maria Addolorata is on at 18.40, in the Old Lab, Summerhall, until the 24th August …

Carol Campbell presents the work of her late husband, artist Steven Campbell, who was an internationally known painter. He first received international recognition when he was part of a group exhibition of other Scottish artists, in New York, in 1987. …

Artists Cat Phillipps and Peter Kennard take Summerhall TV through their installation Demo Talk, which is their response to current events such as the war in Iraq, the conflict in Gaza, and the actions of the British Government on home …

Artists Alex Pollard, Charlie Hammond and Iain Hetherington present their group exhibition ‘Internet Curtains’, which utilises their dry and black humour to explore the complex contextual issues involved in the production of contemporary art. Part of the Generation programme which …

Nicola Bianzola introduces Made in ILVA, a performance piece that explores the ILVA Steelworks scandal in Italy, and the impact this had on the population. The company combines experimental physical theatre, video projections and original music to give a poetic …

Funch is back at Summerhall! Illustrator Ryo Tamura’s charming series of drawings detailing the relationship of married couple Ninja wife Koko and polar bear husband Paw Paw will appear in a red lunch box, just outside the Summerhall Cafe.