Fringe favourites 21Common return for a dance spectacular, mashing karaoke carnage and feats of physical endurance with chucking-out time at the Grand Ole Oprey. Using tropes of Western movies, it explores how poverty and violence shape a man. This is a deep and dirty dive into a family circle that more often resembles a ring of … Continue reading Have a Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2024 – Common is as Common Does: A Memoir
Belles was the 'it' girl, hip girl, oh-so-very-fit girl. When she was 17. Now, she’s 24 and spends her days bossed about by her Mum and girls she 100% used to bully. So, when a life-changing opportunity slides into her DMs, she carpes the diem, makes her millions and proves the worth of women worldwide one post … Continue reading Have a Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2024 – I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life
Fern doesn't get invited to dinner parties anymore. They used to love her tales of the macabre. But now? The mask is slipping. Written by Amy Conway and directed by Beth Morton, Catafalque is a one-woman eulogy to death through the lens of a civil celebrant. How do we grieve the ungrievable? How do you … Continue reading Have a Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2024 – Catafalque
Full of heart, this powerful new play is both about and by young people. The first act (What the F*ck Happened to Love?) follows teenager Nina and explores drink spiking, sexual assault and growing up with mixed Indian/Scottish heritage. The second act (What the F*ck Happened to Hope?) follows Nina's best friend Faye and explores … Continue reading Have a Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2024 – What The F*ck Happened to Love and Hope?
SILENCE! The Musical is the unauthorised musical parody of the Academy Award-winning film The Silence of the Lambs. As rookie FBI agent Clarice matches wits with the brilliant but insane Dr Hannibal Lecter to catch the serial killer known only as Buffalo Bill, a chorus of singing lambs breaks out into show tunes about the … Continue reading Have a Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2024 – SILENCE! The Musical
It’s the summer of 2005, and England prepares to win the Ashes and Ismail (Smiley to his friends), a British Indian schoolboy, is about to become the youngest-ever player in his elite public school’s First XI cricket team. He sets his sights on immortality, breaking the school batting record and getting his name into Wisden. … Continue reading Have a Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2024 – Duck
Chatterbox, a play about a Pakistani girl at primary school in 1970s Glasgow. Lubna was labelled "stupid" because she couldn't speak English – by people who couldn't speak Urdu. This humorous and touching semi-autobiographical one-woman show looks at the impact of the labels we are given as children and how they persist into adulthood. What … Continue reading Have a Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2024 – Chatterbox
A cursed army, two twisted lovers, a mighty hero, and a magnificent bull set in motion a terrible war which shapes the landscape and defines the heroic age of Ireland... In this modern retelling of Ireland’s most ancient and beloved myth, Young Edinburgh Storytellers Mark Borthwick and David Hughes weave together music and myth, blood … Continue reading Have a Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2024 – Táin
Through haunting original music and rich spoken word, an actor-musician band deliver a feminist retelling of Mary Queen of Scots' story. The folk-rock show searingly questions the treatment and portrayal of women historically and today. Following a sold-out production in February, the Marys are back by popular demand for the Fringe. Mary themselves, writer Rona … Continue reading Have a Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2024 – Mary: A Gig Theatre Show
A fruity apocalyptic rom-com from the razor-sharp pen of Fringe First winner David Finnigan. Girl meets boy. Girl hates boy. Girl f*cks boy 44 times. The world collapses. Some seriously naughty actors go down on their microphones, mangos and melons in this slippery, subversive take on a classic radio play, a clever and uproarious response … Continue reading Have a Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2024 – 44 Sex Acts in One Week
