Visual Arts The aim of the Art Shed Collective is to enable emerging artists to meet fresh audiences through a curated programme of socially engaged art works, to be presented this year at the Edinburgh Just Festival 2015. Find out more at … Art Shed 2015 : No Stake
Performance ‘If you pinned me against a wall, I’d probably admit to being a liberal. Of course, pinning me against a wall is exactly what I’d expect from someone like you.’ Confirmation is a show about the gulfs we cannot talk … Confirmation
Performance An obscene, ink-black comedy about tax havens, greed and the few who have it all. Olivier nominee Caroline Horton (Chrissy, Mess, Penelope Retold) and her foul ensemble plunge us into a monstrous world where no-one has to pay… for anything. … Islands
Performance In Poker Night Blues, Tennesse Williams’ masterpiece, a Streetcar Named Desire, is undone, dismantled and distilled to its essential elements. Heightened physicality, dance, humour and an original text blend together to create this intense, touching and steamy fusion between East … Poker Night Blues
Performance Combining puppetry, magic and scientific-demonstration, The Assembly of Animals gives a glimpse into the inner workings of a laboratory looking for life in everyday objects. As a performed sculpture, a series of delicately composed experiments reveal a proliferating system of … The Assembly of Animals
Performance An old-fashioned exhibition room with fitted carpet, various things on panels and in display cases. At the back sits an attendant, whilst in the middle of the room Kristien De Proost attracts all the attention. She runs and keeps on … On Track
Performance Tommy leaves his safe town up on the hill to see the sea. On his way he meets everyone who for some reason isn’t allowed or doesn’t belong in the city. A journey through music history that gives the floor … The Great Downhill Journey of Little Tommy
Performance Choose your own path through an imagined world… or perhaps your neighbour will choose it for you. Without leaving your seat, you – or most of you, anyway – will be able to go wherever you want. If not, don’t … We This Way
Performance Jenny is a mischievous little girl who loves playing with her Dad. But he has to put on his business suit, pick up his briefcase and go to work. When Jenny grabs hold of his overcoat to stop him leaving, … The Overcoat
Performance While walking over 3500km through Germany, Gerling took photographs of people he met during his wanderings, creating portraits in the form of photographic flipbooks. On stage, Gerling recounts the stories of those who let themselves be photographed. Gerling describes great, … Portraits in Motion
Performance Originally inspired by the demolition of The Chartists Mural in Newport, South Wales, Smash It Up explores the destruction of art, culture and public space. Beginning as a performance lecture, and using performance art and physical theatre, it explores the … Smash It Up
Performance Gather round, gather round for the moon’s magical, mystical story about a tippetty-top tap dancer called Marina Skippett, whom he has been watching at night. With stunning puppetry, original live music to sing along to and tap-dancing that will make … The Tap Dancing Mermaid
Performance A clock, a town, a sunrise on an empty open coffin and the wind. The wind, who’s dead set on sticking someone in it by sunset. Down in the dust bowl the air’s so thick folk just can’t see what’s … Five Feet in Front (The Ballad of Little Johnnie Wylo)
Performance Last year, Jonny accidentally told his four-year-old niece that climate change would end the world. To stop her crying, he and Paddy promised to fix it. They really tried very hard… A new show about family, friendship and environmental disaster … Jonny & the Baptists : The End Is Nigh
Performance To Space is your telescope into a future and capsule that will preserve the past. Scientist and performer Dr Niamh Shaw has dreamed of space travel from the age of eight. After a year of interviewing astronauts, astrophysicists, space industries … To Space
Performance London’s boldest dance theatre brings hit shows to the Fringe. Lost Dog’s restaging of the creation of everything. Inspired by Milton’s epic poem with less words, more dance and never before seen levels of divine incompetence. A show for anyone … Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me)
Performance London’s boldest dance theatre brings hit shows to the Fringe. We started out wanting to change the world with a performance. We felt like idiots. Then we danced a lot. We jumped. We called on the folk traditions of Sardinia … Idiot-Syncrasy
Performance Seven of Scotland’s most dynamic, provocative and lyrical spoken word artists: Rachel Amey, Bram E Gieben, Harry Giles, Jenny Lindsay, Ali Maloney, Rachel McCrum and Sam Small, present original solo shows, blending poetry, music and theatre in a different performance … Shift/ : A Best of Spoken Word
Performance Eight years after Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko fatally drank poisoned tea in London, the public inquiry into his death has thrust him back into the spotlight in 2015. 2Magpies do not know who killed him, but they do know what … The Litvinenko Project
Performance Grandad and Me is a living storybook about loss, longing and the treasures of memory and imagination. We meet a young girl who is missing her Grandad – he has gone, even though his favourite job was being her Grandad. … Grandad and Me
Performance The premiere of Simon Thacker’s latest pioneering intercultural explorations with a special trio line-up of his award-winning Indo-Western ensemble. It features Scotland’s visionary guitar virtuoso/composer with the soulful voice khamak playing of Raju das Baul, spectacular exponent of one of … Simon Thacker’s Svara-Kanti
Performance Awkward Happiness is a reflection on the futility of happiness. We have an uncanny ability to find lovers with demons complementary to our own. Is happiness something that we seek in another person? This moving and thought-provoking physical performance is … Awkward Happiness
Performance London’s boldest dance theatre brings hit shows to the Fringe. Four dancers explore the fragility and humour of touch. How are we connected even when separated by distance, time or context? How do we touch without touching? We question the … T-Dance
Performance An investigation into what happens when we discover that our parents are flawed human beings, and that at some point, sooner than we think, they are suddenly going to disappear from our lives. Intimate and funny, this play presents a … Gods Are Fallen And All Safety Gone
Theatre To Space is your telescope into a future and capsule that will preserve the past. Scientist and performer Dr Niamh Shaw has dreamed of space travel from the age of eight. After a year of interviewing astronauts, astrophysicists, space industries … To Space
Performance An innovative re-imagining of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, performed and created by renowned international theatre practitioner Anna-Helena McLean (formerly a principal performer with Poland’s legendary Gardzienice Centre for Theatre Practices). This intoxicating performance promises an engaging, funny, sensual and participatory … Anna-Helena McLean : Titania
Performance Internationally acclaimed performance from Herald Angel Award winner Spitfire Company influenced by the works of Václav Havel, especially by his play Audience and its legendary film adaptation. What happens when a brewer and a persecuted politician, alter ego of Václav … Antiwords
Performance J runs so fast she bursts into a million tiny pieces, her atoms unknitting themselves and spreading across the universe. Blair stands on a broken pier with a glass of white wine in one hand and a pint of Guinness … Fable
Performance Project HaHa welcomes you to an upside-down world. A fertile, green landscape that sews together the silence of possibility and the noise of waiting. Beautiful, placid perhaps, but we will not just sit and study little things, we will look … Project HaHa
Performance Written and performed by legendary trans playwright, performer and poet Jo Clifford, this unique and extraordinary show combines theatre with storytelling, spoken word and ritual in a way that, according to one audience member, “leaves everyone feeling blessed”. Join Queen … The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven
