Performance Eight years after Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko fatally drank poisoned tea in London, the public inquiry into his death has thrust him back into the spotlight in 2015. 2Magpies do not know who killed him, but they do know what … The Litvinenko Project
Performance Grandad and Me is a living storybook about loss, longing and the treasures of memory and imagination. We meet a young girl who is missing her Grandad – he has gone, even though his favourite job was being her Grandad. … Grandad and Me
Performance The premiere of Simon Thacker’s latest pioneering intercultural explorations with a special trio line-up of his award-winning Indo-Western ensemble. It features Scotland’s visionary guitar virtuoso/composer with the soulful voice khamak playing of Raju das Baul, spectacular exponent of one of … Simon Thacker’s Svara-Kanti
Performance Awkward Happiness is a reflection on the futility of happiness. We have an uncanny ability to find lovers with demons complementary to our own. Is happiness something that we seek in another person? This moving and thought-provoking physical performance is … Awkward Happiness
Performance London’s boldest dance theatre brings hit shows to the Fringe. Four dancers explore the fragility and humour of touch. How are we connected even when separated by distance, time or context? How do we touch without touching? We question the … T-Dance
Performance An investigation into what happens when we discover that our parents are flawed human beings, and that at some point, sooner than we think, they are suddenly going to disappear from our lives. Intimate and funny, this play presents a … Gods Are Fallen And All Safety Gone
Performance In 1885 Sarah Henley throws herself off a bridge. She lives. In 2015 Sarah talks about this and other things that push us over the edge. It is not about suicide, well, only a bit, it’s about love and what … I Gave Him An Orchid
Performance An innovative re-imagining of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, performed and created by renowned international theatre practitioner Anna-Helena McLean (formerly a principal performer with Poland’s legendary Gardzienice Centre for Theatre Practices). This intoxicating performance promises an engaging, funny, sensual and participatory … Anna-Helena McLean : Titania
Performance Internationally acclaimed performance from Herald Angel Award winner Spitfire Company influenced by the works of Václav Havel, especially by his play Audience and its legendary film adaptation. What happens when a brewer and a persecuted politician, alter ego of Václav … Antiwords
Performance J runs so fast she bursts into a million tiny pieces, her atoms unknitting themselves and spreading across the universe. Blair stands on a broken pier with a glass of white wine in one hand and a pint of Guinness … Fable
Performance Project HaHa welcomes you to an upside-down world. A fertile, green landscape that sews together the silence of possibility and the noise of waiting. Beautiful, placid perhaps, but we will not just sit and study little things, we will look … Project HaHa
Performance Written and performed by legendary trans playwright, performer and poet Jo Clifford, this unique and extraordinary show combines theatre with storytelling, spoken word and ritual in a way that, according to one audience member, “leaves everyone feeling blessed”. Join Queen … The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven
Performance Ventoux is the most fearsome mountain encountered on the Tour de France. It is also the story of Lance Armstrong and Marco Pantani, whose drug-fuelled race back in 2000 was the greatest the world of cycling had ever seen. Ventoux … Ventoux
Performance ABACUS is a baroque presentation delivered by Japanese cult-icon Paul Abacus about the future of national borders, the workings of contemporary persuasion, and our evolving relationship to the screens in our public and private spaces, including our pockets. Inspired by … ABACUS
Performance A trip around the world via storytelling at its most effortlessly fluent, 17 Border Crossings starts with a man at a desk on an empty stage and ends up everywhere but. The itinerary: a worse-for-wear Communist-era train traveling from Prague … 17 Border Crossings
Performance Shelley Mitchell talks to Summerhall TV about her Edinburgh Fringe show, Talking with Angels: Budapest, 1943. A remarkable true story of four young Hungarian artists and their life-changing conversations they had with what they came to call angels. Gitta Mallasz, … Talking with Angels: Budapest, 1943
Performance A baby chick is born and thinks the sky is falling down. On the way to tell the King, she meets Henny Penny, Ducky Lucky and Turkey Lurkey, but there’s a shocking surprise! Chicken Licken grows up to be the … Chicken Licken and the Little Red Hen
Performance In February, Charioteer Theatre developed a play exploring Italian immigration in Scotland, from the 1850s to the 1950s. Focusing on the lives of six women, three Italian and three Scottish, A Bench on the Road is the result of research … A Bench on the Road : Compilation
Performance A Bench on the Road is the result of research commissioned in 2013 by the University of Edinburgh under the Italian-Scottish Research Cluster project (ISRC). The script, written by Laura Pasetti, is based on archival items held by the ISRC, … Laura Pasetti : A Bench on the Road
Theatre The full performance of Don Quijote, performed at Summerhall during the Edinburgh Festival 2013. Tom Frankland and Keir Cooper present an exploration of Cervantes’ novel, combining incredible visual imagery, anarchic performance and original music. Don Quijote
Theatre The full performance of Fleurs De Cimetiere / Age Freckles and Other Tall Stories, performed at Summerhall during the 2013 Edinburgh Festival. Exploring ideas of old age, the play centres around a group of women who met in the 1980s, … Fleurs De Cimetiere / Age Freckles and Other Tall Stories
Performance April 1616 Shakespeare has returned to Stratford a rich, famous, and successful man but all’s not well. Why is he so unhappy? Why can’t he sleep? Why is his wife furious with him? Who is Will waiting for and why … Shakespeare, His Wife and the Dog
Performance Renata Jasinska and Joanna Gierdal introduce Teatr Arka’s Ship of Fools, which was on at Summerhall from the 21st – 23rd November. Ship of Fools is a ship full of crew representing different social classes, different ethical attitudes and personality … Renata Jasinska and Joanna Gierdal : Ship of Fools
Performance Alasdair McCrone, Creative Director of theatre and dance at Comar Arts, introduces Mull Theatre’s newest production, Whisky Galore. The play is adapted from Compton Mackenzie’s famous novel, which was based on real events, about a ship that runs aground the … Alasdair McCrone : Whisky Galore
Performance Rupert Thomson, Summerhall’s Artistic Director, introduces the programme for Summerhall’s Autumn season. The programme will feature a variety of music and theatrical performances in many of the venue’s interesting spaces. For full details of the programme, go to www.summerhall.co.uk Rupert Thomson : Summerhall Autumn Programme 2014
Performance Summerhall Festival 2014 Chiara Taviani and Carlos Massari from the C&C Company present their show, Maria Addolorata, which combines physical theatre and music to explore the feeling of pain and suffering. Maria Addolorata is on at 18.40, in the Old Lab, Summerhall, until … Chiara Taviani and Carlos Massari : Maria Addolorata
Performance Summerhall Festival 2014 Hawksley Workman introduces his wine-soaked rock‘n’roll cabaret celebrating the god of wine and ecstasy! The show is part play, part cabaret and tells the story of the Greco-Roman god of wine, Bacchus (or Dionysus) using Euripides’ The Bacchae as a … Hawksley Workman : The God That Comes
Performance Summerhall Festival 2014 Geoff Sobelle’s piece The Object Lesson encourages us to question if we have what we need, and if we need what we have. Exploring the humankind’s obsession with everyday goods, Sobelle presents the audience with a room full of boxes, … Geoff Sobelle : The Object Lesson
Performance Summerhall Festival 2014 Internationally acclaimed Spanish company auMents combines visual theatre, dance, video art, object theatre, experimental shadow theatre and rock music to create a beautiful, exciting, fantastical journey through a collective fantasy, plunging us through the human soul’s darkness and light. Malasombra … Tomeu Gomila : Malasombra
Performance Summerhall Festival 2014 Simon Thacker invites us to enjoy Ritmata, a wonderful musical experience which fuses flamenco, Indian ragas, blues, Middle Eastern maqamat and African rhythms. This visionary guitar virtuoso explores new genres through a highly distinctive and emotive compositional style. Find out … Simon Thacker : Ritmata
