Dates: 2nd of August to the 30th of September Venue: Meadows Galleries and Corner Gallery This retrospective comprises drawings, performance artifacts and video documentation, encapsulating different series of artworks made from the 1970s onwards, up to MacLennan’s current practice. Some …

Venue: The Dissection Room, Summerhall Dates: 15th to the 26th of August ‘A Welcome! To you and to me and our spikey, sticky, shameful bits!’ With a raucous chorus of original music, award-winning theatre maker Rachel Mars and four belting …

Venue: Red Lecture Theatre Dates: 15th to the 27th of August From what might be a news desk, an office, a bunker under a mountain or a theatre – two people speak up, speak out and blow the whistle on …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …