Performance Theatre Dates: 17th to the 27th of August Venue: Upper Church Trigger warning – subjects of rape and sexual assault. The Völvas is an international feminist performance ensemble. The Vagina Dialogues is a cabaret-style theatre and variety piece that includes a … MJ Ashton : Vagina Dialogues
Performance Theatre Venue: Upper Church, Summerhall Dates: 15th to the 27th of August Tibaldus, made up of Timeau De Keyser, Hans Mortelmans and Simon De Winne, is one of Belgium’s most exciting and innovative young companies. Their work is fierce, surprising and … Timeau De Keyser & Hans Mortelmans : Ivona, Princess of Burgundia
Performance Theatre Venue: Upper Church Dates: 4th to the 27th of August ‘Three strangers meet in the middle of nowhere, in a Crossing Place far from the communications network of civilisation. In their meeting, the last untouched space is tarnished forever’. The … Johan Bark & Chris Mawson : The Crossing Place
Performance Theatre Venue: Anatomy Lecture Theatre Dates: 4th to the 27th of August Photos of ex-boyfriends, emails, texts, audio recordings and poetry. Struggling with her love life, Julie Cafmeyer experiences orgasms, despair, rejection and heaven. In an intimate setting, and with you … Julie Cafmeyer : Bombastic Declaration Of Love
Visual Arts Dates: 2nd August to the 24th of September Venue: Demarco European Art Foundation – 1st Floor Corridor This Time in History, What Escapes is an installation about Afghanistan, where the humanitarian and political crisis continues and ISIL / Islamic State … Rose Frain : This Time In History, What Escapes / Afghanistan
Visual Arts 25 July – 27 August 2017 Dunamaise Arts Centre Co. Laois High Tide’ is an exhibition in response to climate change and global instability. Due to pollution and the excessive burning of fossil fuels, the natural balance of everyday life … Hazel Egan : High tide
Performance Theatre Dates: 11th to the 26th of August Venue: Army Reserve Centre, 89 East Claremont St Let’s spend an hour playing together. As members of The Mayers Ensemble we’ll explore boundaries, personal histories, gender, race. Throughout her life, choreographer Pauline has … Pauline Mayer : What If I Told You
Performance Theatre Dates: 4th to the 27th of August Venue: Upper Church The young performer Suzanne Grotenhuis won a prize for her previous theatre show at a Belgian theatre festival. The money was meant to produce a new show. But she decided … Suzanne Grotenhuis – On Ice:De Nwe Tijd
Visual Arts Dates: 2nd of August to the 24th of September Venue:Sciennes Gallery supported by British Council Sri Lanka Curated by: Colombo Art Biennale Artistic Director Annoushka Hempel The Sri Lankan VA programme presented at the 2017 Festival is a journey of … Annoushka Hempel, Maya Bastian & Radhika Hettiarachchi : Return: In Search Of Stillness
Performance Theatre Dates: 11th to the 27th of August Venue: Basement FK Alexander returns with her Total Theatre Award-winning sell-out 2016 show. FK sings live against a wall of noise music, to the recording of the last time Judy Garland ever sang … FK Alexander : (I Could Go On Singing) Over The Rainbow
Performance Theatre 4th – 27th august 2017 Venue: Roundabout, Summerhall Lorna and Grace do everything together. They share crisps, cigarettes and crushes. That’s what happens when you’re best friends forever. But when Lorna gets a place at University, and Grace gets pregnant, … Elinor Cook : Out of Love
Performance Theatre Dates: 4th to the 27th of August Venue: Old Lab, Summerhall New contemporary all-female circus from award winning director Ellie Dubois, last seen at Summerhall with Ringside in 2015. What do you expect when you go to the circus? The … Ellie Dubois : No Show
Festivals Performance Dates: 4th to the 26th of August Venue: Main Hall Rising star choreographer Cousins takes one of Shakespeare’s most beloved heroines, the curious and courageous Rosalind, and asks whether women still need to emulate stereotypical masculinity to find equality in … James Cousins : Rosalind
Festivals Saturday 9th September 2017 | Sunday 24th September 2017 Dublin Dublin Fringe Festival is home to bold ideas, brave performing arts and adventurous audiences. Kris Nelson : Dublin Fringe Festival
Performance Theatre Dates: 6th to the 27th of August Venue: Old Lab A new play by award-winning Finnish playwright-director Jari Juutinen based loosely on Büchner’s classic Woyzeck. A theatrical kaleidoscope and a mixture of a TV game show, interrogation and a Kafkaesque … Jari Juutine : I Am Faransis W.
Performance Theatre Dates:5th to the 27th of August Venue: Kings Hall, Main Space, Summerhall Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story is a humorously dark folk tale woven together with a high-energy concert. This music-theatre hybrid starring international Klezmer sensation Ben Caplan is … Ben Caplan & Christian Barry : Old Stock A Refugee Love Story
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 8th to the 27th of August Venue: Old Lab, Summerhall Having kids is not an easy decision. Now imagine you have a learning disability… Woah! Can they do that? Do they even have sex? Yes, yes ‘they’ do. Fast … Alison Colborne & Joyce Lee : MIA Daughters Of Fortune
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 4th to the 27th of August Venue: Demonstration Room, Summerhall Mireille & Mathieu unpack their paraphernalia at a flea-market. Objects and toys they pick up turn out to be bursting with stories. Gentle, poetic, cruel or comical scenes follow … Erik Bassier and Kathleen Wijnen : Arm
Performance Theatre Dates: 17th to the 22nd of August Venue: Army Reserve Centre, 89 East Claremont St One man’s love letters from the front line. Towards the close of WW2, Army signaller Dennis Marshall wrote a series of moving letters to his … Tom Poulson : The Last Post
Art in Scotland Visual Arts 28 July – 30 September 2017 Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh Sex Symbols in Sandwich Signs takes its title from a damming review of David Storey’s novel ‘Radcliffe’, which was critical of all the qualities Sutcliffe admires, namely its bleak, alienating … Stephen Sutcliffe : Sex Symbols in Sandwich Signs
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 2nd to the 26th of August Venue: Old Lab, Summerhall I don’t have to remember being in pain. I’m not sure that’s something we can do anyway. And in my case, it’s irrelevant. You can’t remember something that’s still … Rachel Bagshaw Melanie Wilson & Hannah McPake : The Shape of the Pain
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 4th to the 27th of August Venue: Old Lab, Summerhall I saw him looking at me when I danced, I saw the look in his eyes, I knew what he wanted to call me… Slut is a Kathak dance … Amina Khayyam : Slut
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 2nd to the 27th of August Venue: The Red Lecture Theatre Summerhall favourites Puppet Beings Theatre combine traditional Taiwanese puppet arts with the use of contemporary everyday objects, allowing adults and children to exert their imaginations. In The Backyard … Chen-Cheih Sun : The Backyard Story
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 4th to the 27th of August Venue: Roundabout Meet Leah and Chris; raised on Harry Potter, New Labour and a belief they would be special. But what happens when dreams don’t become reality? Set over three decades, from Cool … Paul Smith, Marc Graham & Bryony Davies : All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
Visual Arts 28 July – 30 September 2017 Talbot Rice, Edinburgh For his TRG3 commission Jacob Kerray has been invited to explore and respond to the University of Edinburgh’s vast Art Collection to create a new work, or series of works, for … Jacob Kerray : LOOKY LOOKY
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 2nd to the 27th of August Venue: Cairns Lecture Theatre A reclusive children’s writer becomes wildly successful. Her books are treasured across the country. But when a troubling narrative starts to unfold, we find ourselves asking: what matters more, … Thomas Eccleshare : Heather
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 2nd to the 27th of August Venue: Cairns Lecture Theatre Taipei-based Sun Son Theatre fuses instrument, voice, body, drama, ritual and environment, traditional and folk elements, symbolic objects and contemporary theatre to explore the inner self. Its work is … Low Pei Fen : The Heart Of Darkness
Visual Arts June 16 – August 20 2017 The LAB Gallery, Dublin The LAB Gallery is pleased to present, Shrine For Girls, Dublin, the first solo exhibition in Ireland of New York artist Patricia Croinin. One of the critically acclaimed highlights of … Caroline Pi : Shrine for girls
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 2nd to the 27th of August Venue: Cairns Lecture Theatre, Summerhall Ever Never is a semi-autobiographical story with its roots in the personal journey of Co-coism director Hung Chien-han. Deeply affected by her father’s death and living away from … Chien-Han Hung : Ever Never
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 2nd to the 26th of August Venue: The Terrace Glen Neath and David Rosenberg’s new project, Séance, builds on the success of their previous shows, Ring and Fiction. But this time it takes place inside a completely dark shipping … Glen Neath : Séance
