The Manipulate Festival, Scotland's international festival of animation, film, movement, puppetry, and visual theatre returns for its ambitious 17th season. This year's festival will run from February 1st - 11th across multiple physical and online venues. The full programme can be found here. Next week, Edinburgh will host the return of one of the most … Continue reading Have a Gander – Manipulate Festival 2024
Created and Performed by Britt Plummer Review by Marina Funcasta ★★★ Premised on the dream of realising a clown wedding, Britt Plummer’s ‘Fool’s Paradise’ can be called anything but unoriginal; her methods of story-telling, be it in narrative style, involvement of the audience, or the use of (many) props (which prove multi-purposeful), is more imaginative than … Continue reading Fools Paradise – Summerhall: Old Lab
The Manipulate Festival, Edinburgh's international festival of animation film, puppetry, and visual theatre returns for its ambitious 16th season. This year's festival will run from February 2nd - 12th across multiple physical and online venues in and around Edinburgh. In two weeks’ time, Edinburgh will host the return of one of the most extensive international … Continue reading Have a Gander – Manipulate 2023
★★★★★ It’s an underrated skill, to hate with such impunity. It would kill a lesser person. But tonight, you might just be witnessing the next stage of humanity, the paradigm of insult and politically incorrect comedy from the someone who is an absolute (self-processed so we can say this) cunt delight. If there’s a hero … Continue reading Bianca Del Rio – Edinburgh International Conference Centre
Created & Performed by Sophie Keeble and Martha Heasman ★★★★★ No Plan Needed Theatre Company presented The Bank Where Your Ex Works as part of a showcase of work by graduates of the University of Worcester’s Integrated Masters in Touring Theatre. This farcical comedy follows Rory and Spencer, portrayed by Martha Heasman and Sophie Keeble … Continue reading The Bank Where You Ex Works – Greenside @ Nicholson Square
Creative Direction by Julius Green What’s a circus without a tent, but maintains all the wonderous surprises we would find within? Why a Berserkus of course! That’s precisely what Cirque Berserk aims to achieve with their touring production. An amalgamation of more than thirty circus stunts honed within the big tops of the world and melding them … Continue reading Cirque Berserk – Festival Theatre
