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
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
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
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
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
Performance Theatre Dates: 2nd to the 24th Venue: Red Lecture Theatre What happens to romance when there’s a machine who cooks for you, cleans for you, never forgets your birthday or how you like your tea, tells you you’re beautiful, holds you … Claire O’Reilly : LOVE+
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 4th to the 27th of August Venue: Roundabout Being a small-time drug dealer in Cardiff and living up to your family’s expectations is tough. Marc avoids his mum, disguises his cannabis plants with fake tomatoes at the allotment, and … Catherine Paskell : Sugar Baby
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 4th to the 27th of August Venue: Red Lecture Theatre You meet someone online. All you know is their name and that they seem to like you as much as you like them. In fact, you think you love … Claire O’Reilly : BlackCatfishMusketeer
Performance Theatre Dates: 23rd to the 26th of August Venue: Army @ The Fringe, Army Reserve Centre, 89 East Claremont St ‘They said I’d be good at it.’ The story of a young woman soldier’s journey through post-traumatic stress by award-winning playwright … Una McDade & Lesley Wilson : WIRED
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 4th to the 26th of August Venue: Main Hall, Summerhall Protein presents a thought-provoking yet poignant commentary on multicultural Britain through dance, live music and dialogue compiled from the performers’ personal experiences. Border Tales looks at post-Brexit Britain through … Luca Silvestrini : Border Tales
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 2nd to the 27th of August Venue: Cairns Lecture Theatre Pinned on the arse-end of a night out, Get A Round is a show with lipstick on its teeth and Wotsits on its face. A wayward exploration of friendship, … Léonie Higgins, Sara Cocker & Lowri Evans : Eggs Collective Get Around
Performance Theatre Dates: 2nd to the 27th of August Venue: King’s Hall, Main Space Thus Spoke… is an electrifying piece of existential pop from two of Montreal’s most celebrated artists. Playfully challenging the status quo, writer, Étienne Lepage and choreographer, Frédérick Gravel … Étienne Lepage & Frederick Gravel : Thus Spoke
Performance Theatre Dates: 2nd to the 27th of August Venue: The Machine Shop A menacing fiction, made entirely of unimaginable fact, from the creators of The Litvinenko Project and Ventoux, seen at Summerhall in 2015. Last Resort is the alternative future for … Tom Barnes : The Last Resort
Performance Theatre Dates: 2nd to the 27th of August Venue: Cairns Lecture Theatre Amira is obsessed with space and dreams of becoming an Astronaut. One night, the bangs, whooshes and fizzes of her imagination explode out of her dreams, becoming a deafening … Tessa Bide : A Strange New Space
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 2nd to the 27th of August Venue: Anatomy Lecture Theatre “All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun” (Jean Luc Godard). This is a show about girls and guns. It’s a show that asks … Louise Orwin : A GIrl & A Gun
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 2nd to the 27th of August Venue: Red Lecture Theatre Join Amy on a videogame adventure like no other. Battle the minions of fear, loneliness and despair using your collective powers of human connection and emotional resilience. Only together … Amy Conway’s Super Awesome World
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 2nd to the 27th of August Venue: Red Lecture Theatre Looking down the barrel of her final fertile years, one modern Irish woman goes on a comical quest to uncover the ifs, hows and crucially the whys of reproducing … Joanne Ryan : Eggsistentialism
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 4th to the 13th of August Venue: Upper Church Can art really save the world? For Belgian-Iraqi theatre-maker and performer Enkidu Khaled, living through the Iraq war, this became an urgent question. His award-winning show is a unique form … Enkidu Khaled : Working Method
Festivals Performance Theatre Dates: 2nd to the 27th of August Venue: Main Space Kings Hall With a performer on stage and iPhone’s personal assistant, Siri, her only partner, director Maxime Carbonneau and performer Laurence Dauphinais invent a theatre where chance reigns. Dauphinais, one … Laurence Dauphinais & Maxime Carbonneau : SIRI
