Summerhall TV

Julia Samuels and some of the cast from Tales from the MP3 introduce their show, which is currently on at Summerhall. Young people from the award-winning 20 Stories High tell each other’s true stories straight from their MP3 players. As …

Liz Carruthers introduces the Gaelic version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Macbheatha. Featuring a cast of two, the play focuses on the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, and their eventual downfall. Macbheatha is on at 14.00, in the Demonstration Room, Summerhall, …

Flitting between Margaret Thatcher, Marilyn Monroe and Virginia Woolf, Susanna Hislop explores definitions, diagnoses, and bipolar disorder, which Woolf, and possibly Monroe had. Faintly autobiographical in parts, the show aims to take a funny yet still serious look at key …

Based on an idea by Robert McDowell, and combining the talents of a group of musicians, Wyckham Porteous introduces Songs of Orwell Farm, a musical journey based on Orwell’s Animal Farm story. Songs of Orwell Farm is on at 19.30, …

Matthew Zajac from Dogstar Theatre Company introduces their play Factor 9, which centres around the contamination of NHS blood leading on to thousands of haemophiliacs receiving infected blood, and many developing Hepatitus C and HIV. It is considered to be …

All of it hinges on the arousal of curiosity. Q-poetics does not impose a performance, a poet or a poem on those lining up to pay, purchase or pass…but works to arouse curiosity and weave dialogues through those lines in …

Artistic Director of Unfolding Theatre, Annie Rigby, presents the company’s new show ‘Lands of Glass’, which brings best-selling Italian novelist Alessandro Baricco’s wonderful, hilarious world of imagination to UK audiences for the first time, featuring live music played on specially …

Noah Tomson and Harriet Braine from Theatre Paradok introduce their musical based on F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Diamond as Big as the Ritz; a grotesque allegory of the American Dream. A provincial young man, John, visits his wealthy school friend …

Inez van Dam vs. Kabouter Buttplug. Inez van Dam lives in Rotterdam straight opposite the so-called Buttplug Gnome by artist Paul McCarthy. She thinks this work of art is ruining her street and she wants to travel to Los Angeles …

David Wood and Jon Haynes explore early onset psychoses and schizophrenia in their piece ‘The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland’. The piece deals with a family in crisis over time, exploring the mother and son’s journey. The audience are …

Helen Aldrich introduces her solo show ‘Head in the Clouds: The Peregrinations of Marie Marvingt’, which explores the colourful lie of aviator, mountaineer, journalist, amongst many other things, of Marie Marvingt. Alrich plays all the parts in this story about …

Artistic Director of Barrowland Ballet Natasha Gilmore, introduces their dance theatre performances Tiger and Tiger Tale, which centre around a troubled family, and a tiger who appears and causes chaos. Two versions of the work are performed, Tiger Tale is …

Leading new music group Ensemble Thing presents two extraordinary works examining the human condition in the 21st century. John De Simone’s Panic Diary is a deeply personal work about living with an anxiety disorder where the composer and audience alike …

Jade Huang introduces the story behind Misa-Lisin. This spectacular performance combines dancing, singing and story telling in an energetic act of humanity and the motherland. Misa Lisin represents ceremonies from tribes across Taiwan. Find out more at http://festival14.summerhall.co.uk/event/misa-lisin/

Alexandra Kazazou and Matej Matejka introduce their show Charmolypi, which is currently on at Summerhall. The performance is a sort of map charting the thoughts of a woman who struggles with the uncertainty of what is a dream and what …

Alister Lownie and Katherina Radeva introduce their performance Near Gone. Two performers have a difficult story to tell. They come on stage and launch themselves into an hour long attempt to put into words the utterly unspeakable. Delivered in English and …

Exploring the often difficult subjects of life and death, Duck, Death and the Tulip is a warm tale about the unlikely friendship between a duck and death. The play takes the audience on a journey through life with the use of mime, …

Director Andrew Tsao brings to Summerhall a world premiere of his piece, The Waste Land Sisters, which combines the work of T.S Elliot and Chekov with puppetry and imaginative staging. The Waste Land Sisters is on at 12.20, in the …

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 the 24th August …

Nicola Bianzola introduces Made in ILVA, a performance piece that explores the ILVA Steelworks scandal in Italy, and the impact this had on the population. The company combines experimental physical theatre, video projections and original music to give a poetic …

Helen Aldrich introduces her solo show ‘Head in the Clouds: The Peregrinations of Marie Marvingt’, which explores the colourful lie of aviator, mountaineer, journalist, amongst many other things, of Marie Marvingt. Alrich plays all the parts in this story about …

David Wood and Jon Haynes explore early onset psychoses and schizophrenia in their piece ‘The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland’. The piece deals with a family in crisis over time, exploring the mother and son’s journey. The audience are split in half by …

Nicola Bianzola introduces Made in ILVA, a performance piece that explores the ILVA Steelworks scandal in Italy, and the impact this had on the population. The company combines experimental physical theatre, video projections and original music to give a poetic …

Founding director of Deveron Arts, Claudia Zeiske, introduces the two hour performative walk, which took place at Summerhall, with artists Tim Knowles and Ania Bas, who have been undertaking both urban and rural walking in the UK and elsewhere. The …

The Little Clarendon Group, a theatre company based in Oxford, comes back to Summerhall to present Now Until The Hour. Jacquie Crago and Richard Rowley, actress and producer of the production, chat to us about new unexpected twists the director, Andrew …

Poet Ryan Van Winkle and musician Dan Gorman invite us to go on an unforgettable journey to the most beautiful tulip fields in Holland. ViewMaster is an intimate performance, taking place in a magical set designed by artist Faith Eliott. …

Two female performers offset each other scarily; both mother and daughter, dominant and dominated, master and slave. In the world of À Table, the impulse to avoid pain is ignored. The two performers silently attempt to negotiate their relationship in …

Pete Livingstone and Nina Kareis introduce their company Livingstones Kabinet, who are performing Klip at Summerhall, as part of the Fringe Festival. Klip combines performance, dance and live music, and uses a collage technique to produce a different viewing experience …

The Dissection Room Residency at Summerhall is a year long programme, which provides support and space to artists. Set up with Puppet Animation Scotland and Articulation, this programme is made up of a series of flexible residencies taking place in …

An exploration of the underworld and how it can collide with and spill into the everyday. New physical and visual theatre, framed by the award-winning CLOUT THEATRE in a twilight, tensioned world somewhere between repression and chaos. Crépuscule is on …