Summerhall TV

A different set up from the usual show, a play with no rehearsals, director or set. In forcing the actor to think on his or her feet, and to be ready for the unknown, playwright Nassim Soleimanpour’s White Rabbit Red Rabbit demands …

Jan Van den Berg talks about his show Higgs, featuring unique footage and live Q&As with experts, including Peter Higgs!  

Petra Casale and Ingrid Liavaag from RemoteControl Theatre Company discuss their show, La Donna è Mobile. A physical theatre piece centred around womanhood and the human psyche. Performed in the Demonstration Room, Summerhall, 21.30-22.30, until the 25th August.  

Using puppetry and projection, Breaking News looks at our interaction and addiction with news. Sara Marti and Sunna Reynisdottir discuss the central themes in the show, and how the main character, a red bath robe, tries to connect with the …

An adaption of the Odyssey featuring puppetry, illustration and live music. Nic Rawlings and Imogen Charleston talk us through their production and what it takes to create a unique and new interpretation of a classic story. Performing in the Main …

Jennifer Swingler of Clout Theatre discusses the company’s new show, The Various Lives of Infinite Nullity. Performing in the Demonstration Room, Summerhall, until the 25th August.

Steve Lambert and Marnie Baxter from the Badac Theatre Company discusses their play Anna, based on the life, work and assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Anna spent much of her career exposing the human rights abuses that happened in …

Clea Wallis from the Dudendance company discusses the devised piece ‘This Side of Paradise’, which features a cast of menacing characters created from stuffing and removable limbs. Performing in the Demonstration and Autopsy Rooms, Summerhall, 1.25pm – 2.15pm, until 25th …

Playwright Lee Gershuny, talks to Summerhall TV about her play ‘Lockerbie – Lost Voices’. Approached by a Scottish investigative journalist, Lee was invited to write this play in a bid to highlight certain lost information about the tragedy. More information …

Marcin Bartnikowski talks to Summerhall TV about his show, Lauder, which is based on themes from the works of Jonathan Saffran Foer and Shakespeare. Lauder is on in the Demonstration Room, Summerhall,  until the 26th August.

Siobhan Cannon-Brownlie and Elizabeth Stone tell us about their production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, performed on the beach in the Hopetoun Estate. Performing until the 15th August. More information can be found here at the link below. http://festival.summerhall.co.uk/event/the-tempest-in-the-firth-of-forth/

Adura Onashile talks to Summerhall TV about her solo piece, HeLa, which tells the story of Henrietta Lacks who walked into the John Hopkins Hospital, with a pain in her abdomen. A cell sample taken without her permission was used …

The Council of Handmade Crap’s full performance of ‘The Portrait Firm, which they performed at Summerhall during the Edinburgh Festival 2013.

Jack Klaff discusses his honest portrayal of Sir Isaac Newton, with a sneak peak of the performance. Performing in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre at Summerhall, 17.00 -18.15, until 25th August.

Jack Klaff talks to Summerhall TV about his performance, Out To Lunch. Tackling topics such as world hunger and charity, Jack’s show is on until the 25th August, at St. Peter’s Church. Details can be found here http://festival.summerhall.co.uk/event/out-to-lunch/

Summerhall TV caught up with Clout Theatre in April this year to film their play, ‘How a man crumbled’. The film will be premiered in July while our trailer also provides a taster for Clout’s 2013 Festival appearance, featuring their …

Sarah Masson, Susan Kelly and Jack Gemmell introduce the work of Cobweb Theatre, QMU’s principal theatre society, and their performance of The Hardman at Summerhall. Based on the life of Jimmy Boyle, Sarah and Susan explain the rationale for this …