ALL EVENTS | 02 August, 2019 Order by: Date / title

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Helen Milne Productions

Islander: A New Musical

Access: BSL Signed Performance 12/08. Captioned Performance 21/08.

Eilidh stares out to sea and dreams of a new life beyond her lonely island. Myth and reality collide when the tide washes a mysterious stranger onto her beach, changing her life forever.

_ Time: 10.00 (60 mins)

Mats Staub, Swiss Selection Edinburgh

21: Memories of Growing Up

This is an installation - purchasing a ticket allows entry for a 2 hour slot

When did you turn 21? Featuring interviews with 200 people from around the world about becoming an adult, video installation 21 is an urgent reminder that we have more in common than sets us apart. 'Addictive' (Guardian).

_ Time: 10.00, 12.00, 14.00, 16.00 (120 mins)

Kopergietery, KGbe, Arsenaal/Lazarus, Richard Jordan Productions, TRP, BiB, Summerhall

Buzz

In the overwhelming, desolate landscape of the Faroe Islands, a young person is found. Washed ashore. Adapted from Johan Harstad's acclaimed novel into a thrilling verbal, musical and visual experience by multiple Fringe First winners Kopergietery.

_ Time: 10.00 (70 mins)

Teuchter Company – Colin Bramwell

Umbrella Man

Audience participation, strong language/swearing. Access: relaxed performance 13/08

The story of a young man from the north of Scotland who tries to prove the Earth is flat: a tale of friendship, loss and conspiracy that will take you on a journey to the outer limits of common sense, and beyond.  

_ Time: 10.00 (60 mins)

Victor Esses and Ellie Keel Productions

Where to Belong

What makes a home for you? Victor Esses is Jewish-Lebanese, Brazilian and gay. Start your day with a tender exploration of how to find your place in a rich, complex world of identities. Emerge Performance Prize shortlisted.

_ Time: 10.10 (50 mins)

Chang Dance Theatre

Taiwan Season: Bout

Taiwan's award-winning Chang brothers (co-creators of Bon 4 Bon, a five-star hit at the 2018 Fringe) bounce back with a new trio that reveals fresh facets of their fraternal relationships and inherent conflicts of male bonding.

_ Time: 10.20 (40 mins)

Annie Cusick Wood, Honolulu Theatre Production supported by Catherine Wheels

Sparkle

Audience Participation. Access: BSL performance on 20/08. Relaxed performances on 07/08 & 14/08. Captioned Performances on 05/08, 14/08 & 23/08

Sparkle, who loves to dress in tutus, tiaras and sparkly dresses, finds on his first day of school that not everyone wants to let him shine. In this playful and poignant show, Sparkle discovers the joy of standing up for himself and being unique.  

_ Time: 10.20 (40 mins)

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre

Join us inside a converted 1970s caravan for puppetry, shadows, absurd object theatre and live soundscapes to get lost in. Escape into a wildly different world where no experience is ever the same.

_ Time: 11.00, 11.45, 12.30, 13.10, 13.55, 15.15, 15.55, 16.35, 17.15 (20 mins)

Paines Plough and Theatr Clwyd

Daughterhood

Strong language/swearing, some references to sex. Access: all performances captioned.

By Charley Miles.
One sister stayed at home to care for Dad. The other set out to "make a difference". A beautiful, ferocious play from Charley Miles about the bonds that tie us and how we sometimes need to break them.

_ Time: 11.20, 14.15 (70 mins)

Will Pickvance

First Piano on the Moon

Access: Captioned performances on 07 & 14/08.

The concert on the Moon is about to start. But where's the pianist? Solos, storytelling and theatrics from creator of critically acclaimed Anatomy of the Piano.

_ Time: 11.30 (60 mins)

Cardboard Citizens

Bystanders

Access: Captioned Performances on 01/08, 03/08, 05/08 & 24/08

A Windrush generation boxer, a Polish migrant marked with a tattoo and a man with a bottle of gin and a television in his shopping trolley.  Playfully serious and seriously playful.Last seen at the Fringe with Cathy in 2017, Cardboard Citizens return with an eye opening collection of homeless histories. Are we mere bystanders?    

_ Time: 11.30 (60 mins)

Mandy Tootill

Twin Peaks

Nudity, strong language/swearing, references to breast cancer.

Twin Peaks is an honest and fearless account of being diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 30.  Faced with her own mortality, Mandy laughs into the cleavage of cancer.

_ Time: 11.30 (60 mins)

Eva O'Connor

Mustard

A one woman show about heartbreak, madness and how condiments are the ultimate coping mechanism from award-winning playwright & performer Eva O’Connor.

_ Time: 11.30 (55 mins)

Reetta Honkakoski Company in association with From Start to Finnish

The Desk

One teacher. Five students. Five desks. A powerfully compelling show about dogma. Inspired by personal experience of a cult, this meticulous ensemble piece explores the seductive power of discipline, hierarchy and the search for an ultimate truth.

_ Time: 11.35 (60 mins)

Shinehouse Theatre

Taiwan Season: Fish

Access: Every performance will be BSL signed.

Sign language meets puppetry in this engaging, BSL-signed production based on Taiwanese author Huang Chunming's novel. Conflicts between a grandfather and grandson unfold in a touching, richly sensory experience aimed at, but not limited to, hearing-impaired audiences.

_ Time: 12.00 (40 mins)

Trick of the Light Theatre

Tröll

Access: Captioned performance on 06/08 & 07/08

From makers of The Bookbinder comes a lo-fi wi-fi fable in the vein of Stranger Things, combining storytelling, projection, and puppetry. 'Merging magic realism, sharp writing and brilliant performances' ★★★★★ - FringeFeed.com.au

_ Time: 12.05 (55 mins)

National Theatre Wales

Cotton Fingers

Scenes of a sexual nature, strong language/swearing, explores women's reproductive rights. Access: captioned on 07/08, 10/08, 14/08, 24/08.

Aoife's hungry and bored. Cillian makes a mean toastie. After boredom and hunger are satisfied in Cillian's bed, Aoife's life changes forever. As social and political upheaval grips her country, can Aoife regain control over her future?

_ Time: 12.15 (60 mins)

The Theatre Centre, CanadaHub

Sea Sick

The ocean contains the switch of life. Not land, not the atmosphere. The ocean. And that switch can be turned off... Acclaimed science journalist Alanna Mitchell performs her terrifying, laugh-out-loud and ultimately hopeful story about climate change.

_ Time: 12.30 (70 mins)

By Tim Cowbury, Directed by Mark Maughan, Producer: James Quaife

The Claim

Access: Captioned performances on 07/08, 14/08 & 21/08

A bold, imaginative response to the stories of those seeking refuge in the UK, The Claim asks what happens when your life is at stake and all you have to save it are your words.

_ Time: 12.50, 23.55 (65 mins)

Trevor Lock

Community Circle

A prayer group? A 12-step meeting? A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? (Unless you go back the next day?) 'Blew me away. An absolute masterclass in comedy performance' (Scotsman). '100% gag-free. Clever without being a smartarse. Go' (Mirror).

_ Time: 13.00, 18.00 (60 mins)

DARKFIELD

Coma

Strong language/swearing, show takes place in the dark and in a confined space.

Imagine the moment of waking up is actually the moment when your dream begins. In light of this new and strange reality, how can we save you from the unspeakable horrors which lurk in the dark tunnels of your mind?

_ Time: 13.00, 13.30, 14.00, 14.30, 15.00, 15.30, 16.00, 16.30, 17.00, 17.30, 18.00, 18.30, 19.00, 19.30, 20.00, 20.30, 21.00, 21.30 (30 mins)

Demi Nandhra

Life is No Laughing Matter

Contains Distressing Themes, Strong Language/Swearing. Access: BSL signed performance 15/08

Life is No Laughing Matter's a performance about mental illness, suicide and radical cures attempts. Expect a selfish woman, her reluctant, shy doesn't-want-to-be-there partner, a f*ck ton of bananas, holy water and Yoko Ono.

_ Time: 13.00 (60 mins)

Chris Goode and Company

Narcolepsy - CANCELLED

This event has been cancelled.

Chris Goode's new solo show uses the life and death of River Phoenix to look back on the turbulent experience of queer life in the 90s, including the intense summer of his first Edinburgh Fringe, twenty-five years ago.

_ Time: 13.00 (70 mins)

Mechanimal

Vigil

One human. Twenty-six thousand animals. A wildly intimate, inter-species meditation on mass animal disappearance. From the 2018 Herald Angel award-winning Mechanimal.

_ Time: 13.00 (60 mins)

Catherine Graindorge

Before the End

Catherine Graindorge – writer, violinist and actress – distils emotions with words, images and music to construct a moving story about the loss of her father. Acclaimed by press and audience in Belgium. Universal and emotional.

_ Time: 13.15 (60 mins)

The Story of Books

Unicorns, Almost - An Audio Installation

Please note this event takes place off-site at Hepburn House Reserve Centre, 89 East Claremont Street, EH7 4HU (Venue 210).

An immersive audio experience and installation based on the play by Owen Sheers about the life and work of WW2 poet Keith Douglas.

_ Time: 13.15, 15.15, 17.15 (60 mins)

National Theatre Wales

For All I Care

Contains strong language/swearing. Access: captioned on 07/08, 10/08, 14/08, 24/08.

Clara and Nyri. Two very different women. Two complicated lives. Both having a very bad day. Interweaving and unexpected connections collide in this fast-moving, touchingly funny one-woman show by Alan Harris.

_ Time: 13.30 (60 mins)

Cheryl Martin

Alaska

Access: Relaxed performances on 14/08, 15/08, 16/08, 17/08. This show contains distressing themes

Alaska is a funny, singing, dancing, magical trip to the moon: one woman's extraordinary story of surviving growing up with severe depression. A raw, powerful performance, with humour, heart, and soul, stunning vocals and beautiful imagery.

_ Time: 14.00 (50 mins)

Pickering's Gin, Summerhall Distillery

A Pickering's Gin Jolly

Involves Walking, Standing required for the entire show, and located in an alcohol production site.

Take a gin jolly with Pickering’s Gin in their home at Summerhall Distillery. Pickering’s and Tonic in hand, discover how the former kennels of the Royal (Dick) Vet School came to be Edinburgh’s first exclusive gin distillery in 150 years.

_ Time: 14.00, 16.00, 18.00 (75 mins)

SUPERFAN in association with Tron Theatre

Like Animals

Contains Strobe lighting. Access: Captioned performance 16/08

Inspired by true stories of animal language experiments. A funny and touching show about love and communication in human (and not-so-human) relationships, performed by a real couple.

_ Time: 14.15 (60 mins)

Paines Plough and Theatr Clwyd

On the Other Hand, We're Happy

Audience Participation, Strong Language/Swearing, some references to drug use and sex. Access: All performances captioned.

By Daf James.
A single Dad meets his adopted daughter for the first time. Then he agrees to meet her birth mother. A tender, funny, hopeful play about being a mum when your name is Dad.

_ Time: 11.20, 14.15 (70 mins)

Creative Electric

The Happiness Project

Please note this performance takes place off-site at Hepburn House Reserve Centre, 89 East Claremont Street, EH7 4HU (Venue 210).

'At first you feel a winding pain... you get used to it, then you develop a liking to it...' The Happiness Project explores our need for non-sexual physical contact in our highly digital era.

_ Time: 14.20 (50 mins)

Jonny Donahoe

Jonny Donahoe: Forgiveness

This show contains Audience Participation and distressing Themes

Jonny Donahoe is the co-creator and performer of the international smash-hit Every Brilliant Thing. This is his first new solo show in five years. 'Painfully honest, funny, joyous – indeed, brilliant' (Guardian).

_ Time: 14.30 (60 mins)

Mr and Mrs Clark featuring Jonny Cotsen

Louder Is Not Always Clearer

Access: All shows use creative captioning, English and BSL to make the show fully accessible for deaf and hearing audiences.

Meet Jonny: teacher, father, artist. He loves music, festivals and nightclubs. He longs to sing. Jonny is deaf. This is a moving, funny story of disconnection, difference and desperation to belong. British Council Showcase.

_ Time: 14.30 (65 mins)

ARTICLE 11, CanadaHub

Deer Woman

Contains Distressing Themes, Scenes of Sexual Violence.

'My name is Lila and I am a proud Blackfoot woman. What I am doing is illegal.' So begins Deer Woman, a solo warrior-woman story of righteous vengeance created by ARTICLE 11, presented by Indigenous Contemporary Scene.

_ Time: 14.30 (90 mins)

Vacuum Theatre

Passengers

Contains Distressing Themes, Strong Language/Swearing. Access: BSL signed performance on 14/08.

Multi award-winning writer Kit Redstone ('multi-layered and gripping' Lyn Gardner on previous show Testosterone) and director Jessica Edwards explore the epic battles within the mind and the incredible power of the psyche to protect itself from pain.

_ Time: 14.30 (60 mins)

Meeting Place Theatre and Teresa and Andrzej Welminski Foundation

Limbo

Limbo is where art and theatre blur. Where memory, history and literature collide. Where the audience wait and judge, judge the waiting and wait for judgement.

_ Time: 14.30 (80 mins)

Cie No Way Back / Milan Emmanuel

FrontX

FrontX shows a range of international hip-hop street artists who combine exceptional energy and resilience. Their fascinating personal life stories are the main theme of the show. How do these atypical individuals transcend their difficulties through their artistic practice?

_ Time: 15.00 (60 mins)

China Plate, Cambridge Junction and The Yard Theatre

All of Me

Access: BSL signed performance 16/08. This show contains nudity and distressing themes.

An absurd exploration of wanting to live, wanting to die and what can happen if we sit together with the dark. Written and performed by Olivier Award nominee Caroline Horton, directed by Alex Swift (Mess).

_ Time: 15.10 (70 mins)

Summerhall Drinks Lab

Science of the Sesh 3.0

Standing only

Delve into the wonderful world of Science of the Sesh, with fun experiments, craft Scottish spirits and delicious cocktails, while learning about the science and history of your favourite drinks!

_ Time: 15.30, 20.30 (60 mins)

Rachael Young

Nightclubbing

Contains loud music, flashing lights but not strobe, and haze.

*The run of Nightclubbing has ended, but Rachael Young is performing another piece, OUT, in the same time slot.* Rachael Young and her badass band of superhumans embrace Afrofuturism and the cult of Grace Jones in Nightclubbing; an explosive new performance bringing visceral live music and intergalactic visions to start a revolution.

_ Time: 15.45 (60 mins)

Dirty Protest

How to Be Brave

Strong Language/Swearing. Access: Captioned performances on 07/08, 14/08, 21/08

Siân Owen's one-woman play, produced by the company behind fringe hit Sugar Baby,  is about what we're made of and learning to be brave when your world’s falling apart.

_ Time: 15.45 (60 mins)

Claire Dowie and Colin Watkeys

When I Fall If I Fall

Leaping barriers of age, sexuality and gender, Gloria prepares to dance the Can-Can one last time. Written and performed by the pioneering Claire Dowie and directed by Colin Watkeys.

_ Time: 16.00 (60 mins)

Avalon and BBC Arts

Resurrecting Bobby Awl

Contains Distressing Themes. Access: Captioned performances on 15, 17 & 18/08

Introducing Bobby Awl: Edinburgh urchin, poor, half-starved, violent yet beloved. Bobby, once robbed of his place in Scottish mythology, here resurrected by Brian Catling, author of the Vorrh trilogy.

_ Time: 16.00 (60 mins)

Cumbernauld Theatre and Invited Guest

LipSync

A cast member of this performance has Cystic Fibrosis.

Two performers, one story, one life... One speaks the truth, one lies. Part-spoken, part-sung, intimate production. Previous Herald Angel winners: The Gardener.

_ Time: 16.05 (65 mins)

Nathaniel Hall presented by Dibby Theatre with Waterside Arts

First Time

Contains audience participation, strobe lighting, distressing themes & strong language/swearing. Access: BSL performance 23/08.

'Remember your first time? I can't forget mine...' HIV+ theatre-maker Nathaniel Hall presents a funny, frank autobiographical show about staying positive in a negative world.

_ Time: 16.15 (65 mins)

Indigenous Contemporary Scene

Native Girl Syndrome

Native Girl Syndrome is inspired by the experience of Lara Kramer's own grandmother’s migration from a remote Canadian First Nations community.

_ Time: 16.20 (60 mins)

One Two One Two, Culture Ireland and Projects Arts Centre

Everything I Do

Everything I Do is the award-winning, music-driven theatre show about love, loss and floating in space. Performed by Zoe Ní Riordáin and directed by Maud Lee. Winner of Best Performer at Dublin Fringe Awards 2018.

_ Time: 16.30 (60 mins)

The Chop, CanadaHub

Pathetic Fallacy

Relaxed Performance on 14/08

A performer steps out of the show for personal reasons. Every day, a different stand-in takes on the central role to replace her. A live green screen is the backdrop for this show about the weather.

_ Time: 17.00 (60 mins)

Boundless Theatre and Boom Shakalaka Productions

Parakeet

Strobe Lighting, Strong Language/Swearing. Access: captioned performances on 07/08, 14/08 & 21/08.

A musical feast for the ears, eyes and heart, Brigitte Aphrodite and Quiet Boy’s new show lands from Margate. Find your flock, ruffle some feathers and discover empathy is the new punk.

_ Time: 17.05 (60 mins)

Anya Tate-Manning and Isobel MacKinnon with Zanetti Productions

My Best Dead Friend

December, 1998. Dunedin. Bottom of New Zealand, bottom of the world. High summer in a town where there isn't lots to do. A comedy about death, revolution, unfulfilled love, and a possum.

_ Time: 17.15 (60 mins)

Showroom

My Mum's a Twat

This show contains strong language/swearing

One girl's story about losing her mum to a cult. A funny, honest, teen-spirited and gangsta rap-fuelled survival guide to growing up with an actual twat for a mum. Written and performed by Anoushka Warden.

_ Time: 17.30 (70 mins)

Leyla Josephine

Daddy Drag

This show contains strong language/swearing. Access: BSL performances on the 10th & 17th August.

Daddy Drag is a show about dads, good dads, daft dads and dads who are not very good dads at all. How do the relationships with our fathers affect us for the rest of our lives?

_ Time: 17.45 (60 mins)

Matthew Hall

My Name Is Irrelevant

Strong Language/Swearing. Access: Captioned performances 07/08 & 14/08

A man gives a thought-provoking and humorous lecture about all the people he has met in his life, but as he delves deeper his mind begins to unravel.

_ Time: 17.45 (60 mins)

Jennifer Irons

Yukon Ho! (Tall Tales from the Great White North)

Strong language/swearing.

Comic dance-theatre conceived and performed by Yukon born ‘Intrepid’ Jen.  This is the story of Jen’s life and survival in the remote wilds of the Yukon Territory, Northern Canada... and her ultimate escape.

_ Time: 17.30, 17.50 (60 mins)

Shasha and Taylor Productions

Everything I See I Swallow

This show contains nudity, scenes of a sexual nature and strong language/swearing.

A compelling study of female empowerment and shifting generational attitudes to sex and feminism, fusing theatre, aerial performance and shibari – the erotic art of Japanese rope bondage. Provocative and unforgettable.

_ Time: 10.30, 18.00 (60 mins)

ScotBeer Tours

Barney's Brewery Tour and Walkabout

Step behind the old horse stable doors and discover Summerhall's very own brewery: Barney's Beer.

_ Time: 11.30, 14.15, 18.00 (90 mins)

LUNG and The Lowry

Who Cares

This show contains distressing themes and strong language/swearing. Access: BSL Signed Performance on 15/08

A new documentary play by LUNG (Trojan Horse, E15, The 56 and Chilcot), Who Cares examines our failing care system, the impact of austerity and what happens when a child becomes the parent.

_ Time: 18.20 (75 mins)

Francesca Moody Productions

Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd

Strong Language/Swearing, language of a sexual nature. Access: Captioned performances on 10/08 & 15/08.

Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner Richard Gadd has a chilling story to tell about obsession, delusion, and the terrifying ramifications of a fleeting mistake.   An unmissable debut play, directed by Olivier Award Winner Jon Brittain.

_ Time: 18.25, 22.35, 23.55 (65 mins)

Mercimax, Swiss Selection Edinburgh

8:8

Contains distressing themes.

Eight spectators. Eight ordinary people. But how ordinary are they really? What makes someone a suspect? Featuring original choreography and whispered secrets, this intimate play of appearance and reality challenges the judgements we make every day.

_ Time: 16.30, 17.15, 18.30, 19.15 (25 mins)

Sneaky Pete's

Free Love

Standing only. 27 stairs to venue.

Free Love is the latest manifestation of Scottish duo Suzanne Rodden and Lewis Cook (FKA Happy Meals) - a continuation and progression of their utopian dance pop experiments.

_ Time: 19.00 (180 mins)

Tomson Highway, Patricia Cano, Marcus Ali, CanadaHub

Songs in the Key of Cree

Cree-Canadian playwright Tomson Highway is one of history's most important Canadians (Maclean's Magazine). Presented by Indigenous Contemporary Scene, he is accompanied by singer Patricia Cano and saxophonist Marcus Ali in this vivid compilation.

_ Time: 19.00 (60 mins)

Palmer and Hall Music

Dead Equal

Contains Strobe lighting and loud gun noises. Please note this performance takes place off-site at Hepburn House Reserve Centre, 89 East Claremont Street, EH7 4HU (Venue 210).

A herstory about women warriors; weaving verbatim testimony of contemporary army servicewomen with the true story of Flora Sandes, heroine on the Allied front line in the First World War, set to music by Rose Miranda Hall.

_ Time: 19.00 (60 mins)

Harry Josephine Giles, Rob Jones, Neil Simpson and Jamie Wardrop

Drone

Access: BSL performances 08/08 & 14/08. Relaxed performance 14/08. This show contains strobe lighting.

A live jam of music, video and poetry, Drone is part weapons system, part office worker, part background hum. Drone's bleak humour and tender fury asks how anxious people live as part of systems of such astonishing destruction.

_ Time: 19.10 (60 mins)

Harry Clayton-Wright

Sex Education

This show contains distressing themes, nudity and scenes of a sexual nature

One parent refuses to talk about sex. The other buys their child gay porn DVDs. Sex Education blends startling performance, moving storytelling, a no-holds-barred interview with Harry's mum and some good old-fashioned gay porn.

_ Time: 19.10 (60 mins)

Sarah-Jane Scott – Supported by Culture Ireland

Appropriate

Contains strong language/swearing.

Darkly comic tale of finding love in rural Ireland, a lifelong quest to settle down and a bride that flees her own reception. Can Sorcha ever go back?

_ Time: 19.15 (60 mins)

Louise Orwin

Oh Yes Oh No

This show contains scenes of a sexual nature, strobe lighting, strong language/swearing, flashing lights & descriptions of sexual violence.

This is a show about having sexual fantasies that don't align with your politics. Award-winning performance artist Louise Orwin presents a surreal joyride through female sexuality to uncover the power of asking for what you want.

_ Time: 19.20 (70 mins)

Kabosh

Green & Blue

Green & Blue explores the painful and humorous realities faced by the individuals who patrolled the Irish border during the height of the conflict. Written by Laurence McKeown.

_ Time: 19.00, 19.20 (60 mins)

Groupwork

The Afflicted

Contains distressing themes and strobe lighting. Access: integrated captioning for all performances.

Inspired by real events and influenced by true crime podcasts and horror films, this dance-theatre piece explores what happens when a group of young women is stricken with a mysterious affliction that infects their bodies, minds, and souls.

_ Time: 19.30 (70 mins)

Middle Child

The Canary and the Crow

Contains Distressing Themes, Strong Language/Swearing. Access: Captioned performances on 07/08, 14/08 & 21/08

The award-winning Middle Child present The Canary and the Crow, brand new gig theatre about the journey of a working class black kid who is accepted to a prestigious grammar school.

_ Time: 19.50 (65 mins)

Soho Theatre in association with Show and Tell

Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum with Expats

Access: Captioned performance on 21/08

Celebrating their final year as Europeans, ‘the rising stars of performance art’ (Telegraph) Sh!t Theatre travelled to Malta and found mystery and murder in the fight to be European. ★★★★ - The Guardian, ★★★★ - The Sunday Times

_ Time: 20.05 (75 mins)

Daniel Hellman, Swiss Selection Edinburgh

Traumboy

Audience Participation, Scenes of a Sexual Nature. Access: Captioned performance 18/08

Daniel is an artist. He is also a sex worker. Traumboy explores why he chose this profession and why having sex for money is still considered taboo. Where do your boundaries lie? Performed in response to Anne Welenc's Traumgirl.

_ Time: 20.10 (75 mins)

Unfolding Theatre

Hold On Let Go

Access: BSL signed performances on 22/08 & 23/08. Relaxed performance on 13/08. Captioned performances on 02/08, 08/08. 09/08 & 10/08

Last seen at Summerhall in 2016 with Putting The Band Back Together, Unfolding Theatre return with a new show about memory and what we pass on.

_ Time: 20.40 (60 mins)

Lewys Holt

Footnotes

Footnotes is a parody of an academic lecture whose verbose and dense language is frequently derailed by footnotes that could entail any number of diversions including, but not limited to, dancing, oversharing, surreal narratives or flirting.

_ Time: 20.45 (50 mins)

The Whisper Theatre Collective

Wild Women and Oneironauts

Strobe lighting.

Double Bill. Wild Women - a hilarious, irreverent journey of feminine stories. Oneironauts - a sensorial journey into the mysteries of the dreamscape.

_ Time: 20.50 (85 mins)

From Start to Finnish

Ejaculation – Discussions About Female Sexuality

Scenes of a Sexual Nature.

Is female ejaculation the last taboo? Performance about sexuality and desires, based on interviews with women from various backgrounds. Through a personal journey, the performance creates safe space for self-discovery and explores the collective.

_ Time: 20.55 (60 mins)

Rebecca Northan, Spontaneous Theatre, CanadaHub

Blind Date

Audience Participation, Scenes of a Sexual Nature, Strong Language/Swearing

A sexy French clown goes on a blind date with a willing gentleman from the audience. Expect improv, naughty clowning, strong language, spiritual nudity and hilarity.  

_ Time: 21.00 (90 mins)

Tangram Theatre Company and James Rowland

James Rowland's Team Viking

When Tom is diagnosed with cancer, he asks best mates James and Sarah to give him a viking burial. This is the hilarious heart-lifting story about them doing just that. 'Joyous' ★★★★★

_ Time: 21.00 (65 mins)

Written and Performed by Laura Murphy, Directed by Ursula Martinez

Contra

This show contains distressing themes, nudity and strong language/swearing.

Fierce, witty and uncompromising – Contra draws from circus, stand-up and live art to interrogate personal, social and historical occupations of the female body: exploring, literally, where such bodies are positioned and how we're meant to look at them.

_ Time: 21.10 (60 mins)

Francesca Moody Productions

Square Go

Strobe Lighting. Access: Captioned performances on 10/08 & 15/08

The unmissable, Fringe-First-award-winning show from Kieran Hurley and Gary McNair returns. A raucous play about playground violence, myths of masculinity and the challenge to step up or run.

_ Time: 21.15 (60 mins)

Volcano Theatre

The Populars

Audience Participation, Involves Walking

A fun, provocative foursome raises the heat on the dance floor. They've questions for you, things on their minds, an awesome playlist... Expect sweat, sequins, and a playful take on what unites or divides us in uncertain times.

_ Time: 21.20 (60 mins)

Julia Croft and Nisha Madhan

Working On My Night Moves

Breaking the rules, the patriarchy and the time/space continuum. A search for a feminist futurism and a gesture toward the impossible. An ode to utopia. Or just some moves in the night.

_ Time: 21.55 (60 mins)

Nothing Ever Happens Here and Braw Gigs

Shoot Your Shot

Standing only

Queer stalwart' (Dazed and Confused), Shoot Your Shot will be throttling into Summerhall for their Fringe opening party! feat. Lezzer Quest, Cormac.

_ Time: 23.00 (240 mins)