Making their Festival Fringe debut, the outstanding choreographer Katie Armstrong is presenting an impressive double-bill, SKETCHES/GLISK, as part of the Made in Scotland Showcase. Created in collaboration with multi-award-winning composer and DJ Mariam Rezaei, comes complete with a string quintet, four dancers, and a DJ. Previously described as a brilliantly bizarre and beautiful whirlwind, SKETCHES … Continue reading Have a Gander – SKETCHES/GLISK
https://youtu.be/GdyQ4fZCkvI Stretching the limitations of the human form, and the limits of gender norms, N.Ormes is a circus show with never before seen acrobatic exchanges. Dysfunctional, bittersweet, and provocative, Agathe and Adrien (in co-production with Acting for Climate Montréal) are heading to the Festival Fringe for the first time with their brilliant combination of acrobatics … Continue reading Have a Gander – N.Ormes
Comic, performer, storyteller, actress, improv artist, and Shetlander, Marjolein Robertson's accent may be the only one of its kind you'll hear on the circuit, but it's also one of the more promising and talented. Back at the Fringe for another busy year, the fab Marjolein also has two other shows over at the Scottish Storytelling … Continue reading Have a Gander – Marj
And the winner of the best longest Fringe title* is? *(For now). Chriskirkpatrickmas: A Boy Band Christmas Musical Have you ever wanted to see Dicken’s classic A Christmas Carol meet It’s a Wonderful Life? With some NSYNC thrown in for good measure? If you said no, tough. Christmas Eve 2009: seven years into the world-famous … Continue reading Have a Gander – Chriskirkpatrickmas: A Boy Band Christmas Musical
A pink dinosaur walks into a bar. Wait, I don’t think that’s right… Leaving home behind, Hope is attracted to the bright glittering lights of London in this vulnerable comedic solo show from Charlotte Anne-Tilley (Winner of Everything Theatre’s Award for Ingenuity and 4theatre's Best Debut Performance). You’ll see it all in Almost Adult. Join … Continue reading Have a Gander – Almost Adult
He's back. That's right folks, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is proud to welcome Mervyn Stutter and his Pick of the Fringe back for a 30th year! This mad showcase of the Festivals biggest, boldest, and most bombastically obscure; chosen by reviewers, the acts are then invited to showcase their talents to the world. That’s right … Continue reading Have a Gander – Mervyn Stutter’s ‘Pick of the Fringe’
https://videopress.com/v/8rHHo6RI?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true The face she looks upon is one she recognises. This is the face and body, of a man who raped her eleven months ago. Now, it’s her job to prepare the body for the family's final goodbye. This striking play is about one women’s choice to confront her trauma and her story, on her … Continue reading Have a Gander – When We Died
Part of the first-ever official Luxembourgish take-over of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, we were delighted to have a Question & Answer with Stark Bollock Naked’s lead artist Larisa Faber. After a hugely successful VAULT festival run, this visually enthralling, quirky, and candid absurdist performance is about motherhood, the reproductive shelf-life and what (not) to do with those … Continue reading Have a Gander – Stark Bollock Naked
https://youtu.be/xT5pjLRZFR4 Written by Ahlam Directed by Katie Posner ★★★★ There’s something which can escape even the tightest of militaristic strangleholds: words. A series of anti-government and establishment, armed rebellions and uprisings occurred across much of the Arab world in late 2010 – stretching into the following year and beyond. Its consequences, and the lives lost, … Continue reading You Bury Me – The Royal Lyceum
https://youtu.be/DtsX89wVO6s Written by James Ley Directed by Gareth Nicholls ★★★★★ Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Boy loves boy, boy ditches boy, boy reconnects with himself, boy hitches up and trails across the landscapes of Scotland searching for unsolicited sex in his newly christened Volkswagen…oh, you have? Perhaps, if you were lucky, you caught … Continue reading Wilf – Traverse Theatre
