Performance The team behind last year’s five-star double-bill, Love+ and BlackCatfishMusketeer, is back. This one’s for anyone who wants to be tickled, provoked, or has a brain and has ever worried about what it’s not telling them. On at Summerhall from … Claire O’Reilly : Everything Not Saved
Performance Sun Son Theatre return to Summerhall after the success of Heart of Darkness in 2017, welcoming you to a light-hearted world of live action and hand-crafted animation. Originally created by visual artist/actor Liu Wan Chun, this disarming show is a … Low Pei Fen : Once Upon a Daydream
Performance Love Letters from Blackpool, a comedy theatre piece about love and Blackpool, originally commissioned by The Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester and subsequently nominated for Best New Show at Leicester Comedy Festival and Best Comedy Show at Greater Manchester Fringe, uses … Ruth E. Cockburn : Love Letters from Blackpool
Theatre Ever since he was a kid Nick has loved Michael Barrymore. In this heartfelt and playful tribute, Nick invites you to examine the turbulent relationship between showman and spectator. Nick Cassenbaum : My Kind of Michael
Theatre Duckie is a reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling with a message of tolerance and self acceptance at its core. Family-friendly glamour and glitz takes centre stage as critically acclaimed cabaret star Le Gateau Chocolat breaks out of … Le Gateau Chocolat : Duckie
Theatre ‘Blackouts were the worst. Blackouts made me forget… Thank God for blackouts.’ Meet the woman who finds herself urinating off the top of the Scott Monument in Edinburgh. The man who nearly burns down a stranger’s kitchen. The mother who … Mark Jeary : Blackout
Music Performance Named stand-out cabaret of the year by the NZ Herald, Valerie is an inter-generational, interdisciplinary and interrupting piece of theatre reaching into the guts of family mythologies. Music, genetics, and storytelling combine to unravel one family’s history. A love letter … Cherie Moore : Valerie
Music Performance A blistering punk theatre gig about our civil liberties and our capacity to resist – with an original soundtrack played live. In Brisbane, Australia, 1979, Prehistoric follows Deb, Nick, Pete and Rachel as they meet at a gig, start a … Brigid Gallacher and Zach Pidd : PrehistoricPrehistoric
Performance An antique magic lantern projector, an iPhone 6 and a live musical score shine a new light on Samuel Butler’s classic sci-fi novel. A Victorian explorer discovers a colony of refugees; time travellers from the 21st century escaping their dependence … Arthur Meek and Eva Prowse : Erewhon
Performance Paris. 1650ish. Impotence is illegal. When a member of the aristocracy is accused of being less than upstanding, his wounded pride leads him towards a monumental and very public flop. But can a cast of total idiots save a show … Ted Lishman and Iain Gibbons : The Flop
Performance After a sell-out run at the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, nostalgic bookseller Lewis and party-boy Glen are back in this hit gay romantic comedy set in 1980s Edinburgh. Love Song to Lavender Menace is a funny, celebratory play about the … Pierce Reid and Matthew McVarish : Love Song to Lavender Menace
Performance Sophie works in a shop. She suffers from an irrational fear of eggs. Her nipples are behaving strangely and a black hole has appeared in her neighbourhood that could be / probably is a pervert. While precocious eight year olds … Hannah Mamalis : The Egg is a Lonely Hunter
Performance What happens when memories disappear? Where do they go, and can we get them back? Using just his voice and a Roland TD-4KP electronic drumkit, Antosh Wojcik explores the effects of inherited Alzheimer’s on speech, memory and family. Poems become … Antosh Wojcik : How to Keep Time
Performance The boiler’s broken, the owl with the rings is missing, the celebrant’s late and the band haven’t turned up. Can Mona and Geoff still tie the knot and live happily ever after? This is a wedding you won’t forget. An … Kate Nelson : Handfast
Theatre Big Aftermath explores how lives can turn on a word and the allure of the self-destruct button. Comedy and tragedy collide in a play about what happens when one person wants to go and the other wants them to stay. … Alice Malin and Sam Callis : Big Aftermath of a Small Disclosure
Performance Four women, forced together as their homes are evacuated by police, squeeze into a saree shop where it doesn’t take long for tensions to rise. Critically acclaimed musicians Novasound collaborate with playwright and performer Belle Jones to present Closed Doors … Belle Jones and Lauren Gilmor : Closed Doors
Theatre People Show are the UK’s oldest experimental theatre collective. Defying definition and constantly pushing the boundaries of live performance, the company continues to explore the world around us. Each show has been numbered. This is People Show 130. On at … Fiona Creese and Gareth Brierley : The Last Straw
Theatre Vivid and lyrical, Extinguished Things is a captivating exploration of what it means to spend your life with someone, and the nature of what you leave behind. On at Summerhall from the 1st to the 26th at 19.25 (except the … Molly Taylor and Jade Lewis : Extinguished Things
Festivals Performance Theatre WILLY HUDSON : BOTTOM Join Willy for a queer coming-of-age remix, as he questions if ‘bottom’ in the bedroom means ‘bottom’ in life – and whether Beyoncé can help put his love on top. Cairns Lecture Theatre, Summerhall, 16:25 1st … Willy Hudson : Bottom
Festivals Performance In this brave and outlandish performance a grown woman attempts to be your baby to discover if innocence really is as sexy as we’re told it is. On at Summerhall in the Demonstration Room from the 1st to the 26th … Katy Dye : Baby Face
Festivals Performance Based on JG Ballard’s cult novel Concrete Island, VOID meshes experimental dance and abstract glitch-video landscapes. Taking in typically Ballardian themes of dystopian worlds, liminal spaces and urban paranoia, Mele Broomes performs risk-taking choreography to the backdrop of an industrial … Mele Broomes : VOID
Visual Arts This a conjectural model of Schwitters’ last day at the MERZBarn in Elterwater. Only … it seems the final flourish of plaster across the corner (all that remains in the Barn after the wall’s removal to the Hatton), was added … Martin Green & David Rushton : Kurt Schwitters has left the building
Visual Arts SATELLITE Visual Arts Scotland in association with Summerhall are delighted to present the work of eighteen of the hottest emerging talents on the Scottish Art scene. Since its inauguration in 2015 our Graduate Showcase has celebrated the finest emerging artist … Andrew MacKenzie : Satellite, VAS
Visual Arts Using Tintoretto’s creative presence and the atmosphere engendered by his great masterworks, studying their subtlety and responding to them with drawings and paintings of his own, Pulsford attempts to re-live Tintoretto’s experience of inventing them. War Memorial Library Gallery, Summerhall 11:00–18:00 (NOT … Mark Pulsford : Alla Presenza di Tintoretto/In the Presence of Tintoretto
Visual Arts Married for 51 years, Dawson and Liz Murray share a great passion for plants and have spent the twenty-one years since they moved to Fife designing a beautiful garden which provides a constantly changing source of inspiration for their work. … Liz & Dawson Murray : The Romance of the Garden: Fragments and Memories
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Well-known bioartists Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr (The Tissue Culture & Art Project) present their landmark work Pig Wings (2000). Advances in tissue engineering, xenotransplantation and genomics promise to render the living body as a malleable mass. Questioning the effect … Oron Catts : Pigs Wings + Work in Progress
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Ting-Tong Chang: Sciennes Galleries, Summerhall Using robotic devices to simulate living animals, P’eng’s Journey to the Southern Darkness brings lifelike characteristics to lifeless animal bodies. The sophisticated mechanism of each automaton contain within them a notion that life can be … Ting-Tong Chang : P’eng’s Journey to the Southern Darkness
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Synthetica, Summerhall Saturday 31 — Sunday 13 May A selection of works forms a brief retrospective on the incredible career of Marta de Menezes. The concept of identity and a dichotomy between the natural and the artificial are recurrent themes … Marta de Menezes : Meadows Gallery
Media & Unions A short TU/TV film for the National Union of Journalists and Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom recording the union breaking transfer of jobs to Rupert Murdoch’s News International printing plant in Wapping. Reprised in respect for Brenda Dean, leader of Sogat … Wapping Lies : Brenda Dean
Visual Arts David Bainbridge : Paintings David Bainbridge was one of the four founder members of the Conceptual art group Art & Language. He left the group in 1972 and in the 1990s he turned to painting to address scenes from his … David Bainbridge : Paintings
