Performance Listen to the peaceful and relaxing Summer Melodies, a collaborative video art project by Cristian Perez Scigliano inspired by his travels around the Highlands in Scotland and the people he met along the way. Summer Melodies
Festivals Performance Plays ‘If you pinned me against a wall, I’d probably admit to being a liberal. Of course, pinning me against a wall is exactly what I’d expect from someone like you.’ Confirmation is a show about the gulfs we cannot talk … Confirmation
Performance Plays London’s boldest dance theatre brings hit shows to the Fringe. Inspired by Milton’s epic poem with less words, more dance and never before seen levels of divine incompetence. The Lost Dog’s restaging of the creation of everything. A show for anyone … Paradise Lost : Fringe Interpretation of Milton’s Classic Poem
Festivals Performance Plays 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
Festivals Performance Plays The Thermos Museum is a comedic but also edifying experience; suitcases unfold to reveal numerous astonishing displays. However, the public are not free to reign: visitors are escorted around the museum by the mysterious and disenchanted Tour Guide. Digression seems … The Thermos Museum
Festivals Performance Plays 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 … Thaddeus Phillips : 17 Border Crossings
Performance As part of our new project capturing the arts in Ireland for Culturefox, we visited Dublin’s Gate Theatre to find out more about their upcoming play, A Month in the Country. The setting is the Islayev country estate. Natalya Petrovna, … Brian Friel’s version of A Month in the Country
Performance Director Liz Carruthers introduce’s Shakespeare’s classic text about power and obsession, Macbeth. Translated into Gaelic, this two person performance shows the bloody and cruel path to power taken by Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Liz Carruthers was born in Edinburgh and … Liz Carruthers : MacBheatha
Performance 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 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/ Jade Huang : Misa-Lisin
Performance 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 … Alexandra Kazazou and Matej Matejka : Charmolypi
Performance 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 … Alister Lownie and Katherina Radeva : Near Gone
Performance 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, … Peter Wilson : Duck, Death and the Tulip
Performance 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 … Andrew Tsao : The Waste Land Sisters
Performance 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 … Chiara Taviani and Carlos Massari : Maria Addolorata
Performance 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 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 … David Wood and Jon Haynes: The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland
Performance 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 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 … Claudia Zeiske : Urbanscape + Ruralsprawl
Performance 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 … Aniela Piasecka : À Table
Performance A different set up from the usual show, a play with no rehearsals, director or set. In forcing the actor to think on his or her feet, and to be ready for the unknown, playwright Nassim Soleimanpour’s White Rabbit Red Rabbit demands … Eric Lampaert : White Rabbit Red Rabbit
Performance Jan Van den Berg talks about his show Higgs, featuring unique footage and live Q&As with experts, including Peter Higgs! Jan Van den Berg : Higgs
Performance Petra Casale and Ingrid Liavaag from RemoteControl Theatre Company discuss their show, La Donna è Mobile. A physical theatre piece centred around womanhood and the human psyche. Petra Casale and Ingrid Liavaag : La Donna è Mobile
Performance Using puppetry and projection, Breaking News looks at our interaction and addiction with news. Sara Marti and Sunna Reynisdottir discuss the central themes in the show, and how the main character, a red bath robe, tries to connect with the … Sunna Reynisdottir and Sara Marti : Breaking News
Performance An adaption of the Odyssey featuring puppetry, illustration and live music. Nic Rawlings and Imogen Charleston talk us through their production and what it takes to create a unique and new interpretation of a classic story. Odyssey is a Paper … Nic Rawlings and Imogen Charleston : The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey
Performance Tamilla Woodard from Pop Up Theatrics tells us about her show, Long Distance Affair (make possible an impossible trip). A unique experience in which the audience member can connect via Skype to an actor on the other side of the … Tamilla Woodard : Long Distance Affair
Performance Jennifer Swingler of Clout Theatre discusses the company’s new show, The Various Lives of Infinite Nullity. Jennifer Swingler : The Various Lives of Infinite Nullity
Performance Steve Lambert and Marnie Baxter from the Badac Theatre Company discusses their play Anna, based on the life, work and assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Anna spent much of her career exposing the human rights abuses that happened in … Steve Lambert and Marnie Baxter : Anna
Performance Clea Wallis from the Dudendance company discusses the devised piece ‘This Side of Paradise’, which features a cast of menacing characters created from stuffing and removable limbs. Clea Wallis : This Side of Paradise
Performance From The Council of Handmade Crap, Henriette Kristensen tells us about their production of The Portrait Firm. Henriette Kristensen : The Portrait Firm
