RashDash Theatre are a company going from strength to strength and their production of The Ugly Sisters at the Fringe this year is a testament to this stellar progression. Now becoming regular favourites at the festival, their frenetic mix of physical theatre, dance and live music is carving them a unique space in the theatrical landscape. The […]

Tequila, sombreros, Mariachi, tortillas… Juana’s had enough of all that. What she wants is fish-and-chips, Billy Elliot and Buckingham Palace. Launched on her journey by a fiercely beating drum and a wild-as-the-wind Aztec dance, our heroine sets off from a small town in Mexico beset by economic depression and gang violence to seek out the […]

Growing up can be a compromise. In the relentless drive towards adulthood it can be so easy to forget some of the most important elements of being a child. In some small way Dr Brown, with his shows Befrdfgth and Dr Brown Brown Brown Brown Brown and his singing tiger, is helping us to reconnect with the most […]

As part of the ‘Polska’ season of Polish performance at Summerhall, Wojtek Ziemilski presents Small Narration, a performance-lecture video-art mix-up. What’s in a name? Nationality? Identity? Personality? Wojtek has changed his name a few times, and explains to us the reasons by reading a monologue as the various alterations to his name are projected behind […]

In which Chris Goode comes of age, taking words out of the mouth of babes and onto the stage of the Trav… Monkey Bars is a piece of verbatim theatre, with texts taken from interviews with children between the ages of six and eleven (conducted by Goode’s collaborator Karl James – mediator, facilitator, and director, known […]