Tag Archives: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016

Rachael Clerke and the Great White Males: Cuncrete

August 9th, 2016 by

A drag king punk gig about architecture and idealism? Bring it on! Cuncrete sees Rachael Clerke assume the identity of Archie ‘I invented the Barbican’ Tactful, architect, who becomes the vessel for her exploration of the domination of our built environment by Great White Males. She is aided and abetted by a posse of performance […]

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Upswing: Bedtime Stories

Upswing: Bedtime Stories

August 9th, 2016 by

The space is so inviting! A large Spiegeltent, with a bed on a platform in the middle of the circular space, a kind of giant lampshade above it. Soft night-time lighting, in gentle blues and ambers. All around the edges of the floor space, little beds and cushions. Behind them, rows of chairs covered with […]

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Sliver Lining & Jacksons Lane: Throwback

August 9th, 2016 by

What’s she gonna look like with a chimney on her… If you wanna be my lover… Stop right now, thank you very much… It’s not unusual to be loved by anyone… Hey, the Macarena! What’s your feel-good throwback song? The song that reminds you of the good times? Write it on a piece of paper, […]

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Company Here and Now: Perhaps Hope

August 9th, 2016 by

‘Good evening this is your captain speaking. Get ready for a crash landing. We’re going down’.   Perhaps Hope is a circus show with a difference: a dark and moody circus-theatre exploration of a dystopian future. Or perhaps it’s the present. Two people – a kind of end-of-civilisation Adam and Eve – are marooned somewhere, who […]

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The Hiccup Project : May-We-Go-Round?

August 9th, 2016 by

Friday evening at Dance Base, and a jolly audience laugh out loud as performers Chess Dillon-Reams and Cristina MacKerron, reveal their innermost thoughts and conversations, drawing us into their friendship through a mixture of charisma and sheer will. The cyclical narrative of May-We-Go-Round? gives the audience an insight into their dating sagas complete with emotional […]

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