A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a…
What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, …
What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br…
A completely original show.
NYC comedian Harmon Leon (VICE) lives a double life.
In this UK premiere, South Africa’s top ventriloquist, Conrad Koch, chats racism, apartheid and colonialism, with his double International EMMY award nominated puppet friend and …
NYC comedian Harmon Leon (VICE) – lives a double life.
NYC comedian Harmon Leon (VICE) – lives a double life.
Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.
A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott.
Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London…
NYC comedian Harmon Leon brings you a show about lost love, irony and obscure Scottish poet William Topaz McGonagall.
NY comedian and Vice contributor Harmon has made a career infiltrating extremist groups.
Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey.
The celebrated NDT returns with a revelatory programme featuring two works by Sol León and Paul Lightfoot: Shoot the Moon, an exploration of hidden emotions to a score by …
NY comedian/VICE contributor, Harmon Leon has made a career out of infiltrating extremist groups in Trump America.
Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.
VICE contributor/NY comedian, Harmon Leon has made a career infiltrating extremist hate groups in America.
The composer Mario Diaz de León, who creates vivid canvases for acoustic instruments and electronics and draws from influences including black metal, is in residency at the St…
Their flyer is designed like a book which unfolds into a poster.
In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.
Humour is at its most poignant against a background of human tragedy.
Dan! Keep safe! the show starts but how? How can a youngster be safe if they can be knifed on their own doorstep? This is the unfortunate reality of contemporary society …
You know what its like when you arrive in a strange place, and have to ask for help in a foreign language? The only person around is someone who looks strange, unfamiliar, differ…
This recipe for an autobiographical slideshow sandwich with musical filling could so easily have turned out to be unappetising.
Arthur Conan Doyles story of The Lost World is brought to life using live animation and music by the members of The Paper Cinema.
Xavier Mortimer is a talented magician-musician-mime artist and clown.
From their first entrance, comic duo Patrice Thibaud and Phillipe Leygnac had the audience in hysterics.
Unlike His Ghostly Heart, another play on the Fringe which is played out in the dark, where the stage is darkened and the audience can make out the actors forms, in Don Qui…
There are big names behind this show which starts with some stunning visual film sequences from the Wellcome Trust.
An entertaining hour of fairy tales drawn from Hans Christian Andersens collection.
Life in a rooming house in New Yorks East 10th Street is the subject of this gripping one-man show, which is billed rather pompously as a self portrait with empty house.
Director Daniel Goldman and Multi-talented musican-actor-storyteller John Hinton join forces again after their collaboration on Crunch! the history of the apple told in an h…
In this highly energetic performance, dancer-actor John Macaulay welcomes the audience and ushers them in, attempting to build up a friendly rapport.
It starts with a chalk circle traced upon the ground.
A highly challenging story which draws on the Arthurian story of Gawain and the Green Knight, and references many others.
An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouchs last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly…
Airealism attempt to mix circus and theatre to tell a tale of love gone wrong.
Three versatile performers tell the tale of a solitary lamplighter, an endearing character who lives by the sea alone, sleepwalks, enjoys music, food and drink, follows the news in…
Its billed as The Tragicomicall Historie of Cardenio, a lost play said to be written by Shakespeare and Fletcher, reconstructed here by Dr Bernard Richards.
Bridge Markland performs his own version of Goethes Faust in a maverick combination of blank verse and pop song.
It all started well enough.
Nine members of the Scottish Dance Theatre company take to the stage to dance.
A10-strong cast from the Scottish Dance Theatre start off this performance with a still-life scene, a sculptural montage, in which all the characters appear in the same light.
A harrowing first-hand account of a cycle of transformation from victim of circumstance to victim of fate told by a character who just wants to find a quiet spot where he can just …
In a musical style reminiscent of Claude-Michel Schönberg ballads, Daniel Cainer sings his big, broad Jewish heart out to entertain, engage, enlighten his audience.
In an abstract space evocative of a garage, mechanics workshop, engine room, and/or horologists studio, the members of Brocante Sonore conjure up music from a range of things, …
Titus Groan, heir to the great crumbling kingdom of Gormenghast is fourteen.
There are places which have unquestionable resonance.
Jeffrey Solomons play is a tour-de-force of skilful writing and performance.
Tortoise in a Nutshell tell the story of a little string boy who is left out of things, so he goes off on an adventure of self-discovery and returns.
Tall Stories is a company that has made a name for entertaining children and family shows.
Blurring the boundaries between theatrical performance and dance, this artful show mixes different styles of movement with poetry, dialogue and brilliant choreography to produce a …
Russian dance company Rain People are to dance what Picasso is to art.
Lindgrens classic story of bravery and self-sacrifice is retold with cinematic scope and vision in this adaptation by Lionheart Productions and The Pleasance Theatre.
Two film-makers, filming the lighthouse on Beachy Head for a documentary about lighthouses unwittingly come back with video footage of a mans last moments before committing suici…
An ambitious one-man show, in which Martin Aukland, as Iago, acts out single-handedly the story of his machinations against The Moor of Venice, outlining how and why he sets up…
The name alone conjures up nostalgia, decadence, style and class and this show delivers.
Across the time span of two hour-long performances, Lance Pierson performs a selection of Betjemans poetry.
Luke Wright is a talented performer who plays as much on his baby-faced good looks as with the words and styles he uses.
In this one-hour show, talented Ross Sutherland brings philosophy, physics and fun together to create a highly entertaining view of contemporary society, which transcends the obvio…
Storytelling and theatre meet in a comic theatrical retelling of two classic tales retold with fun and vigour.
A bed, a body covered in a fire-black veil, a single rose, long-stemmed, green-leaved in a slim vase at the foot.
This one-man show features engaging storytelling with a fruit and veg theme.
In a clinically white setting, with full-length white fabric backdrops suspended from rig to floor, among boxes draped with white sheets, lies a lifesize puppet of Albert Einstein.
Sometimes raw, rough shows, performed on a knife-edge are the most gripping.
Kyds Spanish Tragedy is a product of its time socio-political, full of double-entendre, the themes of revenge and retribution and scenes of killing all the more poignant on st…
This is a very clever, wonderfully traditional, old-fashioned theatrical adaptation of the timeless classic tale of life by a riverbank.
The world-class Ragamala Dance Company returns to the Edinburgh Fringe this year with a soul-moving performance of South Indian Classical Bharatanatyam dance.
A fringe show with four writers, three directors, two composers, a cast of fifteen and an even larger production team sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Hes a velvety-voiced opera singer with a voice to die for.
With deliciously ridiculous names, fantastic situations, a plot that would make Ian Fleming grin with delight, and toothpaste taking on a significance you would never credit it wit…
Rachel Rose Reid is a young storyteller who places herself firmly within a long tradition of oral storytelling.
Its a conventional play with a difference acted out on stage, with an audience seated front-on in the dark.
Martin Milnes is a unique talent with an exceptional voice and good vocal technique to go with it.