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Summerhall TV > Video > Summerhall Festival 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

Performance Summerhall Festival 2014

Amy Golding introduces Beats North, a double bill of two one-man shows about two young men who are still trying to figure it all out through the music they listen to. DJ Mariam Rezaei provides the tunes in these performances, …

Amy Golding : Beats North

Performance Summerhall Festival 2014

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 …

Julia Samuels : Tales from the MP3

Performance Summerhall Festival 2014

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, …

Liz Carruthers : MacBheatha

Performance Summerhall Festival 2014

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 …

Susanna Hislop : How Does a Snake Shed Its Skin

Performance Summerhall Festival 2014

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, …

Wyckham Porteous : Songs of Orwell Farm

Performance Summerhall Festival 2014

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 …

Matthew Zajac : Factor 9

Performance Summerhall Festival 2014

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 …

Skye Loneragan : Q-Poetics

Performance Summerhall Festival 2014

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 …

Annie Rigby : Lands of Glass

Performance Summerhall Festival 2014

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 …

Noah Tomson and Harriet Braine : The Really Big Diamond

Performance Summerhall Festival 2014

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 …

Walter Bart : Looking for Paul

Performance Summerhall Festival 2014

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 …

David Wood and Jon Haynes: The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland

Performance Summerhall Festival 2014

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 …

Helen Aldrich : Head in the Clouds

Performance Summerhall Festival 2014

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 …

Natasha Gilmore : Tiger and Tiger Tale

Performance Summerhall Festival 2014

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 …

John De Simone and Thomas Butler : Replaceable Things

Performance Summerhall Festival 2014

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 …

Nicola Bianzola : Made in ILVA

Performance Summerhall Festival 2014

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 …

The Little Clarendon Group : Now Until The Hour

Performance Summerhall Festival 2014

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. …

Ryan Van Winkle : ViewMaster

Performance Summerhall Festival 2014

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 …

Livingstones Kabinet : Klip

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