Visual Arts ‘Ideas of Beauty’ is an exhibition organised by Edinburgh’s Democratic Camera Club. Beauty is a difficult word for many artists. It is associated with cliché, with the ‘chocolate box’ image. The notion of what is beautiful changes with time, and … John Sumpter : Ideas of Beauty
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts ‘Ideas of Beauty’ is an exhibition organised by Edinburgh’s Democratic Camera Club. Beauty is a difficult word for many artists. It is associated with cliché, with the ‘chocolate box’ image. The notion of what is beautiful changes with time, and … John Sumpter : Ideas of Beauty
Visual Arts Venue: Meadows Gallery, Summerhall Coup de Théâtre – a group exhibition of contemporary sculpture. It investigates notions of the unexpected, the sudden and the unpredictable translated through visual, immersive and sensory experiences. Featuring new work from Hans K Clausen, Clare … Kjersti Sletteland : Coup de Theatre
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Venue: Meadows Gallery, Summerhall Coup de Théâtre – a group exhibition of contemporary sculpture. It investigates notions of the unexpected, the sudden and the unpredictable translated through visual, immersive and sensory experiences. Featuring new work from Hans K Clausen, Clare … Kjersti Sletteland : Coup de Theatre
Visual Arts This exhibition is a celebration of that which is just beyond the view of what is seen. It is that emergent presence that sometimes take the form of a still life and sometimes a landscape – an alchemy of colour … Alexander Mackenzie : Invisible
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts This exhibition is a celebration of that which is just beyond the view of what is seen. It is that emergent presence that sometimes take the form of a still life and sometimes a landscape – an alchemy of colour … Alexander Mackenzie : Invisible
Visual Arts Two years in the making, CEIBA – Casa de Todos los Muertos is the result of photographer- artist Ross Fraser McLean’s research trips into Mexican culture, specifically exploring Mexico’s relationship with death and dying. Unlike most other parts of the … Ross Fraser Mclean : Ceiba – Casa de Todos los Muertos
Visual Arts 4 August – 31st October Lower Church Gallery, Summerhall A profile of the exhibition as realised at Summerhall researched and presented by Devin Karambelas. This APG exhibition was curated by Naomi Hennig and Ulrike Jordan in dialogue with Barbara Steveni. … Devin Karambelas : Context is Half the Work. A Partial History of the APG
Performance Theatre April 1616 – Shakespeare has returned to Stratford a rich and famous 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 Venue: Cairns Lecture Theatre, Summerhall Age Suitability: 16+ Times: 21.10 (50 mins) Dates: 3rd – 28th August Camille Claudel was a sculptor and artist. She was also the sister of Paul Claudel and the lover, creative collaborator and muse of … Kamila Klamut-Pawlik and Ewa Pasikowska : Camille
Performance Venue: Old Lab, Summerhall Age Suitability: U Times: 20.55 (40 mins) Dates: 16th – 28th August Architect Steve Salembier and photographer Charlotte Bouckaert use architectural models, live photography, sounds and music to take the audience on a trip between 2D … Charlotte Bouckaert and Steve Salembier : Bildraum
Performance Theatre – Venue: Demonstration Room – Category: Performance Theatre – Age Suitability: 14+ – Times: 11.30 (90 mins) – Dates: 16th – 28th August A man, deep in a coma, hides out in the bedroom of Vincent Van Gogh while his … Debs Newbold : Lost in Blue
Performance Theatre Never Mind the Noise / Haley McGee Venue: Red Lecture Theatre Category: Feature Theatre Age Suitability: 18+ Time: 16.15 (60 mins) Blending storytelling, live art and improvisation, this show is a big romantic gesture. Haley McGee : I’m Doing This for You
Performance Theatre Location: Summerhall, Old lab Times: 20:55pm Dates: 11th – 14th Dood Paard, Big in Belgium, Richard Jordan, Theatre Royal Plymouth MacBeth and Kurt Cobain and Lady Macbeth and Courtney Love inspire a pitch-black comedy about unbridled ambition, hunger for power … Gillis Biesheuvel Manja Topper : Macbain
Performance Theatre Venue: Rose Bruford @ Upper Church, Summerhall Age Suitability: 12+ Times: 20.15 (80 mins) Dates: 5th – 15th August Josef K. wakes up one morning, hungry and disconcerted, only to find himself arrested. He is not told why, nor by … Matt Holt : The Trial
Music Rachel Sermanni + Matt Norris & the Moon Nothing Ever Happens Here at Summerhall 10th August In case you missed it or … would just like to remember a great night. Stripped down and acoustic, the better to hear the … Rachel Sermanni : Summerhall Set
Performance Theatre Venue: Old Lab, Summerhall Age Suitability: 9+ Time: 11.25 (55 mins) Mikey is a sunny boy. He lives alone with his mum. Mikey’s mum has a secret. It’s not well kept. Everyone knows it. Everyone except Mikey. Addie is a … Andy Manley : Mikey and Addie
Performance Location: Summerhall, Main Hall Date: 10th – 28th Time: 10:40pm Het nieuwstedelijk, Big in Belgium, Richard Jordan, Theatre Royal Plymouth A teenage girl runs away from home to the city. Nobody notices, but is there actually someone looking out for … Adriaan Van Aken : Last Call
Performance One Hundred Homes Big in Belgium, Richard Jordan, Theatre Royal Plymouth Venue: The Old Generator, Summerhall Age Suitability: 14+ Time: 14.05, 16.05 (50 mins) Join Yinka in her new Edinburgh home, a small wooden cabin specially built in Summerhall’s Courtyard, … Yinka Kuitenbrouwer : One Hundred Homes
Performance Theatre Théâtre de L’Ancre Venue: Old Lab, Summerhall Age Suitability: 14+ Time: 17.25 (75 mins) Jean-Marc Mahy entered prison at the age of seventeen. He spent nearly 20 years detained, three of them in solitary confinement. On stage with performer Stephane … Jean-Marc Mahy (with Philip Crispin) : A Man Standing
Performance Theatre Inspector Sands, The Lounge Venue: Main Hall, Summerhall Age Suitability: 12+ Time: 15.25 (80 mins) 97 years go by in a flash. An afternoon lasts an eternity. In a care home lounge somewhere off the A1, Marsha Hewitt begins the … Ben Lewis : The Lounge
Performance All the Things I Lied About Katie Bonna and Paul Jellis in association with Soho Theatre Venue: Roundabout Age Suitability: 12+ Time: 16.40 (60 mins) Would the world be a better place if we were all honest? Fringe First winner … Katie Bonna : All the things I lied about
Music Performance Venue: Summerhall Roundabout Category: Comedy Music Roundabout Theatre Age Suitability: 14+ Time: 19.35 (60 mins) A riotous new musical comedy epic about friendship, inequality and betrayal. Please let Summerhall know if you require wheelchair spaces within Roundabout. We require 24hrs … Jonny & the Baptists : Eat the Poor
Performance Venue: The Dissection Room Category: Cabaret Music Theatre Age Suitability: 18+ Time: 20.00 (90 mins) The fantasmagorical DIVE return!! Edinburgh’s finest purveyors of weirdo cabaret and decadent performance take up their Tuesday night festival residency. Dive : C U Next Tuesday Cabaret
Performance With their friendship and complicity spanning almost two decades, Mauro Paccagnella and Alessandro Bernardeschi meet again to dance together. Summerhall Venue: Demonstration Room Category: Dance & Physical Age Suitability: 14+ Time: 13.30 (55 mins) From 4th to 14th August, Summerhall Mauro Paccagnella and Alessandro Bernardeschi : Happy Hour
Music Performance Venue: Summerhall Basement Installation Music Performance Age Suitability: PG Times: 20.15 (60 mins) With live accompaniment from Glasgow-based noise band Okishima Island Tourist Association, FK Alexander sings along to the recording of the last time Judy Garland ever sang Over … FK Alexander : Over the Rainbow
Performance Theatre Venue: Main Hall, Summerhall Big in Belgium Feature Theatre Young Audiences Age Suitability: 9+ Time: 10.00 (60 mins) In September 2004, during a school hostage drama in Beslan, the greatest of evils (terrorists) chose the greatest good (a group of … Gytha Parmentier : Us/Them
Performance Theatre A ludicrous and inventive interpretation of the Brontë myth, taking the real and imaginary worlds of the Yorkshire siblings as inspiration. With only a handful of props, two performers deconstruct not only gothic themes of love, madness and revenge, but … Publick Transport : We Are Bronte
Performance Theatre A homecoming in viola, voice, movement, animation and storytelling, Pulse is the story of Mairi Campbell’s quest to heal cultural wounds. Mairi Campbell : Pulse
Festivals Summerhall’s 2016 festival programme, a feast of theatre, performance, dance, visual art and music for audiences of all ages, is on sale now via the Edinburgh Fringe box office. Verity Leigh : Edinburgh Fringe 2016
